Career Crafting: Actively working on your career

Richta IJntema & Remko van de Kamp

Are you satisfied in your current role? For your own personal and professional well-being, it is important to regularly reflect on this question. An opportunity for this is this Career Crafting workshop! Using exercises from the CareerCrafting online career course, we invite you to go on a journey of self-exploration and to examine whether your work still suits you sufficiently. Will you join us on this exploration?

Biography

Dr. Richta IJntema works as a senior lecturer in the Department of Social, Health and Organisational Psychology at Utrecht University and also as an independently established occupational and organisational psychologist NIP. Her core tasks at the university are training master's students to become trainers/coaches and developing innovative blended learning programmes, for example in the areas of career orientation, interviewing and intervision. For her achievements in Psychology education, she won the Maarten J. M. van Son prize in 2019.  

Remko van de Kamp, as a graduate planner and former student teaching theatre maker - two courses from which he still only uses elements in his current work - knows from his own experience the stress and discomfort of the career orientation process. This, together with the power of positive psychology, became the core for his current work as Career Officer at the Faculty of Social Sciences. In coaching, training, via podcast and developing the e-learning CareerCrafting, he seeks to take students and professionals from stress and discomfort about their future, to confidence in crafting your (future) work