What we offer
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The Career Service of the OWL University of Applied Sciences and Arts supports students in finding the right career path for them. With the Career Center, we offer you an online platform where you can research job offers, find out about exclusive recruiting events and workshops, exchange ideas with other students and alumni in the community and be easily found by recruiting experts from companies. You can also book consultation appointments with us and find exciting company profiles.
Companies will find what they are looking for in our Career Center if they are looking for talented, committed young professionals. You are also welcome to support us with offers for our workshop program so that our students can benefit from your expertise and experience. This also gives you the opportunity to get in personal contact with our students.
For Students
Career Counselling
We support you with all your questions about career orientation, career planning and career entry. So please do not hesitate to contact us! Our advice is confidential and, of course, free of charge. You can find detailed information here or at the Career Center, where you can also book appointments yourself online.
You can find out when and how you can arrange appointments with us here. We are happy to support you on your way!
You can of course also send us your concerns by e-mailat any time or contact us by telephone:+49 5261 702 2536!
Guidance on Scholarships:
On our scholarship information pages, you can immediately get an initial overview of the topic of scholarships yourself. There you will find a list of scholarship officers in the departments of the OWL University of Applied Sciences and Arts, an overview of selected scholarships and a scholarship FAQ page. If you would like scholarship guidance, please contact us by e-mail.
Whether you are looking for an internship, a part-time job or a job to start your career: The Career Center of the OWL University of Applied Sciences and Arts offers you everything you need for a successful career start, from job offers and internships to events, guidance and career events, to articles and videos.
The Career Service regularly organizes and hosts workshops and lectures in cooperation with internal and external experts on various topics in the areas of career orientation, career planning and interdisciplinary professional skills.
You can always find the events for the current semester on our events page. There you will also find our larger career events, which aim to bring you into contact with interesting companies.
Do you have a disability or suffer from a chronic or mental illness and are wondering how to deal with this, for example in a job interview? The Career Service will be happy to advise and support you on this and related questions. Feel free to book an appointment or send us an e-mail!
Unsure whether you should tell others about your condition?
The University of Cologne has developed a self-test (available only in german at this point) that can help you to,
- sort out your thoughts,
- collect arguments for and against disclosing your health condition (based on scientific research),
- get a personalized evaluation of your answers and thus support you in your decision.
myAbility
We would also like to recommend myAbility to you. The myability team is committed to an equal opportunities society, supports companies on their way to an inclusive corporate culture and supports students and graduates with disabilities or chronic illnesses, including those with a neurodivergent background, in a variety of ways when starting their careers:
- On myAbility.jobs, you can specifically discover inclusive companies and research free jobs for your field/area of interest.
- The myAbility Talent® program is aimed at students and academics with accessibility requirements in the workplace. The program supports you free of charge through 1:1 consulting, workshops, coaching and networking events with inclusive companies and takes place every spring. Interested parties can register at any time and immediately. If you have any questions, please contact the Talent Team at hello.talent@myAbility.org.
The best way to find out which job-specific skills are really important in an industry/company is to gain practical experience. Practical experience can also help you to find out where you see yourself professionally in the future.
Organize your study life successfully! The study methodology courses teach you basic techniques for acquiring and applying the necessary knowledge in all phases of your studies. You will learn methods and get to know practical tips to motivate you to start your studies, study quickly and complete them successfully.
Are you thinking about dropping out of university or have you already decided to drop out of your studies? We won't leave you alone!
In the Career Centre's advice module, you have the opportunity to book an appointment directly with a Career Services advisor to get information and guidance. Alternatively, you can send us an e-mail!
Information on network partners and contact persons outside the university
The BMBF's website "Studienabbruch - und dann?" (available only in german) also offers a lot of useful information on the topic of doubting and dropping out of university.
And did you know that university dropouts are welcome applicants for vocational trainings?
Are you still considering continuing your studies?
Please do not hesitate to seek advice from the Central Student Advisory Service!
In the Career Centre, our online portal, we provide free information and templates (CV templates for applications in the DACH region and in English-speaking countries, templates for cover letters) and on career-related topics in the "Tips & Downloads" module.
You can access all the information and templates in our Career Centre after registering (simply by using your university login).
- Zentrale Studienberatung (ZSB)
- International Office (IO)
- Institut für Wissenschaftsdialog (IWD)
- Existenzgründungsberatung
- Beratungsangebote des Hochschulteams der Agentur für Arbeit (Bielefeld)
- Chancen bei Studienzweifel und Studienausstieg
- Alumni-Netzwerk TH OWL
- AFV Höxter e.V. (Absolventen- und Fördervereinigung)
- mybility.org (external provider; career support for students and graduates with disabilities, chronic or mental illness)
Services for Companies
The Career Service is committed to fostering close networking of students and employers. We are your central point of contact for university marketing and on campus recruitment at the OWL University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Publish job vacancies in our Career Center, create a company profile there to present your company as an attractive company and show your presence in and with events for our young professionals.
TH OWL - Why you should recruit with us:
- We educate about 6,000 students in a total of 52 degree courses (32 Bachelor's and 20 Master's courses) at our three locations - the Innovation Campus in Lemgo, the Creative Campus in Detmold and the Sustainable Campus in Höxter.
- With 13% international students, this includes excellently trained young international talents.
- Our particular strengths include interdisciplinary research in the following key areas: Industry 4.0 and digitalization, environment and resources, space and culture, life science.
Our Services for Employers
If you are looking for talented, committed young professionals, you will find what you are looking for in our Career Center.
Students publish their profiles and CVs there and let you know whether they are open to job offers. Place your job vacancies exclusively with us to appeal to our young professionals and take the opportunity to put your company in the focus of our students and graduates with an appealing company profile.
We offer our students a wide range of lectures and workshops on the topic of career entry in three series of events.
Get in touch with our young professionals at one of these: present your company and support our students with your expertise in the field of HR, with specialist presentations or let employees (including alumni of TH OWL) present career profiles.
We would like to provide you with information on how you can help to make internships a win-win situation for you and for interns.
The information is based on the very detailed materials produced by the Career Services of the Universities of Düsseldorf, Hanover and Münster as part of the project "Making better use of the potential of student internships - a nationwide desideratum in higher education" (2018-2020), funded by Stiftung Mercator. The complete materials and working aids can be found on the website of the University of Hannover.
You can download our guidelines based on this here.