Career Counseling

A career guidance session is a structured reflective conversation that can help you explore and develop your career. The discussion is based on your skills, knowledge, personal qualities, values, and motivation.

This process of reflection can help you gain greater awareness of the opportunities and choices available to you in relation to education, learning, and work, and equip you to manage change and transitions more effectively. By reflecting on your aspirations, resources, and options, you can build a strong foundation for making informed and meaningful career decisions.

Topics that may be explored during a career guidance session include:

• uncertainty regarding career choices and motivation
• identifying and assessing your skills and competencies
• career opportunities and employment prospects
• CVs, job applications, and interview preparation

Appointments can be booked by emailing karriere@oslomet.no.

To make the most of your career guidance session, we recommend preparing in advance.

EURAXESS has developed the No Limits tool, which can be useful for reflecting on your own skills and competencies (euraxess.com), identifying your strengths, and recognising areas where further development may help you achieve your career goals.

PhD programmes offer career development activities that are available to all candidates enrolled on the programmes. The activities offered vary and are tailored to the profile and needs of each programme. If you wish to take part in career development activities offered by another programme, you may contact that programme directly.

Information about each programme’s activities is available on the programme resource pages:

• HV resource page (in Norwegian)
• LUI resource page
• SAM resource page
• SPS resource page
• TKD resource page

If you cannot find information about career development activities on the resource pages, please contact your local PhD administration.

OsloMet coordinates or is a member of several research schools. These research schools offer a wide range of opportunities, including career development activities and networking.

Career Plan

The career plan is a scheme for employed PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers. A career plan is a tool for planning and monitoring academic and professional development throughout the period of employment. The plan is intended to help clarify career goals, identify relevant competence development opportunities, and describe specific actions that can strengthen prospects for a future career both within and beyond academia. The aim is to ensure targeted skills development and support well-informed career choices after the PhD or postdoctoral period has ended.

The career plan is developed through dialogue between the manager and the employee and should be established during the first performance assessment interview/development conversation or start-up meeting. The career plan should subsequently be reviewed and updated or revised during the performance assessment interview. At the end of the employment period, the career plan should be evaluated.

• Template for career plan for PhD candidates
• Template for career plan for postdoctoral researchers

Performance Assessment Interview

The performance assessment interview is a planned, prepared, personal and mutually committed conversation between the employee and their immediate manager, and all employees at OsloMet should be offered one. You can read more about performance assessment interview in the Staff Handbook (compendia.no).

OsloMet resources

• Resources for postdoctoral fellows
• Career development courses at the OsloMet Academy 
• OsloMet-CAM (Norwegian)

External career guidance resources

• Karriere Oslo (karriere.oslo.no) (Norwegian)
• Karriereveiledning i Akershus fylkeskommune (afk.no) (Norwegian)
• Karriereveiledning og jobbsøk (nav.no) (Norwegian)

• Career Guidance in Norway (karriereveiledning.no)