Career Event 2023
March 15
Programme

09.15 - 09.45	SIGNING IN Drielandenpunt \| UNS40 Pick up your badge and lunch ticket.
09.45 - 11.15	WELCOME \| OPENING Maastrichtzaal \| UNS40 The structure and aim of the day will be explained by Arianne Elissen \| UM, Health Services Research Timo Clemens \| UM, International Health Inge Duyx \| UM, Alumni Office Career Event 2023 - Welcome.pdf ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION WITH EXPERT PANEL HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL ON THE JOB MARKET? Maastrichtzaal \| UNS40 Moderators: Arianne Elissen \| UM, Health Services Research Timo Clemens \| UM, International Health Panel members: Jerome de Liege \| UM, Career Services Eva-Lotta Hinzpeter \| Ernst & Young Sebastian Rohde \| RPP Group, UM Loubelle Butalid \| Medtronic Rachel Gifford \| UM, Health Services Research The experts will provide you with advice in applying for jobs and/or recruiting people, on how to become successful on the job market. Do you already have a question you would like to ask the expert panel? Make sure to submit it during registration!
11.30 - 13.00	WORKSHOPS GETTING TO KNOW A SPECIFIC WORK FIELD Workshop 1: Advanced use of LinkedIn. Provided by Inge Duyx \| Alumni Office, UM Maybe it is not the first thing that pops up in your mind when thinking about the first steps in your career. However, it should be. LinkedIn is the largest professional platform and is used for building strong networks, finding investors and hiring new talents. Job recruiters and managers are on LinkedIn and they will use it to check your profile. In this workshop, you will learn how to create a strong LinkedIn profile and how you can use it for your own professional growth. LinkedIn workshop career day HPIMGLEPH.pdf Workshop 2: Working as a Public Health Consultant in Development Cooperation: A Hands-On Workshop. Provided by Elisabeth Rechberg and Lina Brandt \| GFA Consulting Group GmbH Are you ready to dive into the world of public health consulting? This hands-on workshop will give you a taste of what it's like to work as a public health consultant, and provide you with a practical real life exercise related to preparing a proposal for a project tendered by one of our donor agencies. As one of Europe’s leading consulting firms in the field of development cooperation, GFA Consulting Group is implementing projects and complex studies worldwide since 1982. Leading development agencies, ministries and public health clients have entrusted GFA with helping them to manage projects financed through bilateral and multilateral funds. This is a chance to gain valuable insight into one potential future career path in public health consulting. Maastricht University_GFA Medica_Workshop_Presentation_2023.03.pdf Workshop 3: Trying out consulting with pharmaceutical companies. Provided by Edward Atkinson-Clark and Frederik Welding \| Veeva Would you like to work in a consulting position, but are not quite sure what a project may look like? Do you have questions about the kind of tasks this may look like, and how to get into the field? In this workshop, we will have a go at an example of what a commercial project with a pharmaceutical company could look like. It is based on a real life example, and will give you the chance to understand some of the approaches and thinking which goes into these. There will be plenty of time to also ask questions of some current consultants, in areas such as their background, interview processes, and entry opportunities. Workshop Veeva for the Career Event 2023.pdf Workshop 4: The secret to effective teamwork. Cancelled Workshop 5: Experiencing work in the social domain. Provided by Adriana Overgoor \| Municipality of Groningen How does a municipality look at, or organize health? What might a municipality ask from you as a future employee? In this workshop, you will get to experience what it is like to work for a municipality in the social domain. We will show you how the municipality of Groningen looks at health, how it intends to organise it, and how we, throughout our work, put policy into practice. We look forward to meeting you and showing you what this work might look like for you! Maastricht University AOvergoor 2023.pdf Workshop 6: Delivering tailored solutions to customers in a changing health economics environment. Provided by Jan Ridder \| Philips In a changing health care setting where resources are scarce, customers and patients are changing and collaboration is more needed than ever, the industry is playing an important role. In this workshop, we will do a deep dive on a potential customer to see which needs a hospital in 2022 has. We will aim to identify a suitable approach to solve those needs and learn how to approach a customer. The workshop will be based on a real life case and there will be plenty of time to ask questions! Workshop Philips for the Career Event 2023.pdf Workshop 7:Entrepreneurial opportunities and challenges within Healthcare. Provided by Michiel van Etten \| UM, Sustainable Healthcare Challenge During this masterclass an overview of practice based examples of entrepreneuring will be given. The SHC (Sustainable healthcare challenge) will host a session whereby personal insights about entrepreneuring will be shared. Furthermore, an entrepreneurial case from a healthcare organisation will be shared and presented.
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch Drielandenpunt \| UNS40 Lunch tickets are provided for the participants.
14.00 - 15.45	ALUMNI NETWORKING SESSIONS 14.00 - 14.45 Round 1 14.45 - 15.00 Break 15.00 - 15.45 Round 2 More info on the Alumni: click on the names to go to the LinkedIn pages. You can attend 2 groups. No switching during the sessions. Alumni Group 1 \| UNS40 Klara Szent-Ivanyi, Senior Healthcare Consultant, Alcimed Daan Baeten,Strategy Consultant, Deloitte Alumni Group 2 \| UNS40 Mariam Shokralla, Digital Health Consultant, WHO advisory group Edward Atkinson-Clark, Commercial Strategy Consultant, Veeva (Pharma/consult) Alumni Group 3 \| UNS40 Issam Alsamara, PhD Candidate, Maastricht University Rowan Smeets, Post-doc, Maastricht University Alumni Group 4 \| UNS40 Eline Willems, Gemeente Simpelveld Anne van Dun, projectmedewerker Hogeschool Zuyd Alumni Group 5 \| UNS40 Evelien van Asselt, Patient Federation Gaetan Duport, Economic and Public Health Committee (CEESP) member Alumni Group 6 \| UNS40 Anjo Dela Peña, Associate Business Consultant, Plat4mation Samantha Schwengle, ZorgOn Alumni Group 7 \| UNS40 Frank van der Meer, Policy officer & Legal Affairs, Zuyderland Jan Ridder, Philips Alumni Group 8 \| UNS40, the speakers are online James Smith, Senior Manager Financial Strategy & Allocations, NHS England Abdifatah Ahmed Mohamed, Ministry of Health, Somalia Sidharth Tripathi, Consultant
15.45 - 18.00	Networking Drielandenpunt \| UNS40 Talk to our Alumni students: they represent their consultancy firms, health care institutions or governmental bodies. Meanwhile Need a professional photograph for your LinkedIn page or CV? Have your picture taken! Need a CV check? Get professional advice from our Career Officers Maria and Willem. Want to know more on about going for a PhD? Get information from our PhD students in the field of international health, sustainable care, care for the elderly, health economics and more.