Teaching You How to Fish: Career Development Program
professional path. It all starts with you: the self-assessment How easy it was to respond to the question “what do you want to be when you grow up?” when we were five! Now we have grown up, and everything is [...] journey of moving your career forward. (Reading time: 7 minutes 50 seconds) We believe it is fair to start defining what would be called a “good job”. This concept is intrinsically connected to your own values [...] tons of money, because, at the end of the day, what’s the point of making tons of money if you wake up every day feeling miserable because you dislike what you do? At KLU, our Career Services will help
Brain Capital: the solidary financing that believes in your potential
income source, whether is a job or your own entrepreneurship. You will only start your repayments to Brain Capital once you start working and you earn over a certain threshold (this depends on the country [...] threshold of about 30.000€ gross salary). If you earn less or earn nothing, you don’t start paying back. Once you start your repayments you will have the option to stop them if you are not earning over the [...] Brain Capital provides you with some money to cover the tuition fee while you are studying, and you start repaying it back once you have graduated and you are earning income. Every student admitted to KLU
KLU Starts New Semester with Face-to-Face Classes
Starting September 8th, Kühne Logistics University (KLU) will resume face-to-face classes, making the university one of the first institutions of higher learning in Germany to do so. As was the case at [...] the Covid-19 crisis. But now the campus located in Hamburg HafenCity has reopened its doors for the start of the fall semester. Students who are not able to attend classes in person will still be able to [...] students have chosen KLU for their studies,” commented Dr. Thomas Strothotte, KLU President. “We are starting this semester in Hamburg as one of the first institutions in the city to do so. We are well aware
advisupply: studentische Unternehmensberatung
gleichermaßen profitieren. Gegründet wurde advisupply 2020 von drei KLU-Studierenden. Nach der „Start-Up“-Phase zu Beginn ist advisupply inzwischen auf 20 feste Mitglieder – durchweg Studierende der KLU –
COVID-19 – crisis or catalyst? Live reports from international logistics innovators
customers. But most large startups with solid partners, he claimed, are in good shape. Moreover: “As the crisis progressed, we received more and more reports on brand-new startups that wanted to seize the [...] Hendrik Bender from Sovereign Speed also had good news to share: “All of the startups we work with at HAUS61, our logistics startup lab, have a digital backbone, allowing them to rapidly adapt to new challenges [...] his opening address for KLU Logistics Innovators Day. “COVID-19 has accelerated the dynamics of startup financing.” As a result, the total financing for logistics in 2020 was 25 percent higher than in
Money Isn’t Everything… Professor Prisca Brosi talks about pay systems in the 21st century.
changes need to be made? When discussions about the fairness of the current pay system keep cropping up, that is when I know something has gone awry. Whatever the pay system in place, it is not compatible [...] it will prove to be a major source of tension. What is a common pitfall for companies when they start revising their pay systems? Quite often there is a lot of upfront discussion about pay. Everyone agrees [...] resources and in particular pay plans are rarely if ever met with the same scrutiny. If companies start revising their system, management perceives its employees saying, “they are tampering with our salaries
KLU Welcome Week 2023
Summer may be slowly coming to a close, but KLU’s doors were flung wide open last Friday for the start of the university’s annual Welcome Week. Packed with fun, informative and rewarding activities, the [...] creating a sense of community students will carry with them through to graduation and beyond. The start of every academic year is full of excitement and promise and the KLU’s campus in Hamburg’s HafenCity [...] their decisions to study at KLU . “It’s a big city that has everything, and you also can think about starting a career here,” says Laocharoenchai, adding she could see herself working for a multinational in
And…action! 7th KLU Movie Night
students. The winners were selected from 24 entries in nine categories. The KLU Movie Night films were started by the Leadership and Organizational Behavior courses taught by Prof. Niels Van Quaquebeke and Prof [...] Nikhil Sajeev Karl Davin Niemöller Manuel Rodriguez Alvarez Mbariki Sonya Saadi Luis Schröder Best Make-Up Alessandra Cortes Reis Castanheira Katharina Anna Haltenberger Victoria Kotlyarenko Cannon Blake Whitby
The Path to Success
Finding your ideal job starts with taking the first steps in the right direction. Anne Rehmet and Ina Renz of the KLU Careers Development and Alumni Relations Office explain how they help students with [...] which areas and concrete professions would be ideal for them,” she says. The students not only pick up new ideas and enhance their profiles, but are also rewarded for it. “The CPDP is incorporated into [...] corporate network,” explains Anne Rehmet. “It’s sent out before graduation so students have a head start in their job-hunting.” Once they’ve left the university, alumni continue to be offered life-coaching
Great potential for research
explained the affable 35-year-old Italian. “I started learning English when I was a child and I could speak a bit of French, so I thought I would take up a language which is a bit exotic – and the Netherlands [...] Erasmus University in Rotterdam. “I met a professor there – Hercules Haralambides– who was setting up an MS program in maritime economics and logistics,” Acciaro said. “I thought, ‘OK, I’m in Rotterdam [...] had not received a lot of academic attention.” He decided to stay and specialize in the area, picking up second master’s, a PhD, and a position at the university’s Center for Maritime Economics and Logistics