Institute for Coaching & Career

When: Appointments take place in the form of one-to-one meetings and can be arranged individually as required during the semester
Where: online or in person (Salzburg) as required
Who: Katrin Meraner
Language: German, English
Registration at: katrin.meraner@moz.ac.at

As a singer, instrumentalist or ensemble member, sooner or later you will be faced with the question of what to do after completing your studies. What career options are there? Where can I gain a foothold? How do I make the leap onto the market and, above all, where do I start?

Katrin Meraner - singer, cultural manager and cultural agent - will show you perspectives, provide you with strategies and help you to pursue your professional and artistic goals with determination and consistency. This counselling service focuses on you and your wishes and needs. The counselling sessions cover topics such as

• Building a network
• Job opportunities in permanent employment and freelance work
• Concert bookings
• Communication with event organisers
• Agency work
• Funding opportunities and subsidies

In personalised one-to-one meetings, you will work together to develop concrete strategies for achieving your goals and define packages of measures that will motivate you to implement them immediately.

In addition to the curricular courses in the area of sickness prevention, one-to-one coaching sessions can be booked through the Institute. In these sessions, individual solutions to mental and physical issues, stress management and stage presence can be developed and put into practice. This counselling can cover personal advice on preparing for concerts, stress, pain while making music, practice techniques and relaxation techniques, as well as everything you need to know for a healthy, professional life as an artist.

This offer is open to all students; however, since resources are limited, a maximum of two individual coaching hours (2 x 60min) is possible.

To arrange individual coaching, please contact the teacher directly at the email address listed under each link. The following teachers are available with their expertise:

• Elisabeth Grain
• Bernhard Hagspiel
• Hanna Keßeler
• Karoline Renner
• Barbara Rosanelli-Graif

When: Appointments take place in the form of one-to-one meetings and can be arranged individually during the semester as required.
Where: online or in person (Salzburg), as desired
Who: Franziska Wallner
Registration: career@moz.ac.at

In our private and professional lives, we encounter situations almost daily that present us with challenges: studies, application processes, job, drastic life events, dealing with new situations and experiences... Many things can knock us off balance and affect our psychological well-being.

This counselling service provides an opportunity for you to deal with your individual problems or goals in one-to-one conversations. Topics can be discussed such as

• Dealing with stress and excessive demands
• Coping with anxiety
• Dealing with conflicts
• Support with career orientation
• Other challenges you want or need to face in your life.

In these one-to-one sessions, arranged on an individual basis, you will be supported in finding solutions to the desired issues, offered new perspectives and encouraged to tap into your own resources.

When: The appointments take place in the form of one-to-one meetings and can be arranged individually during the semester as required.
Where: online or in person (Salzburg)
Who: Irmgard Reiner, Anna Gerstendorfer
Registration at: career@moz.ac.at

Applying for a job is not a walk in the park for anyone. But if you add to this the fact that you are not only responsible for yourself, but also for children or other family members with care needs, the pressure becomes even greater and combining work and caring duties presents those concerned with a great challenge. For this reason, the Mozarteum University's Family Service, in cooperation with the Department for Family Affairs at the Mozarteum Students' Union (ÖH), offers individual counselling sessions especially for students with caring responsibilities, in order to advise, strengthen and support them in their performance at job interviews.

Individual questions can be discussed, such as how to manage the double responsibilities of work and caring, interaction with employers, and strengthening one's position and self-presentation. In addition to gathering ideas for possible jobs, the counselling sessions can also include role plays for job interview situations, support tips for drawing up a budget, or advice on designing a CV.

When: Appointments take place in the form of individual meetings and are arranged with the mentor.
Where: online or in person, as desired
Registration at: alumni@moz.ac.at

The mentoring programme for career entry, organised by the Alumni Network of the Mozarteum University, is aimed at both students in the final phase of their studies and graduates. 

Within the framework of the mentoring programme, students (mentees) have the opportunity to ask the mentors questions in individual meetings on the topics of career entry, self-organisation and marketing, studying abroad, concrete job descriptions, opportunities on the labour market, information on professional practice, stress management and much more. It is a learning process in which an experienced person passes on their informal, professional knowledge to a person at the beginning of their career, points out paths, answers questions, advises on specific topics and gives feedback. 

The mentors themselves have successfully completed their studies at the Mozarteum University, can look back on several years of professional experience and are happy to pass on their experience to students and graduates. However, they are not "job fixers" or personality coaches and do not offer ready-made solutions; the idea is to work out paths and perspectives together. The placement of mentors is subject to availability of suitable pairings; a match in terms of both personality and degree programme is desirable. The length of the collaboration is agreed mutually between the mentor and mentee. Cooperation over several weeks and months is recommended.

The Alumni Network of the University Mozarteum Salzburg

When: Appointments take place in the form of individual meetings and can be arranged individually during the semester as needed.
Where: Online or in person (Innsbruck)
Who: Isabel Gabbe
Registration at: isabel.gabbe@moz.ac.at

In this consultation hour you will have the opportunity to discuss your individual concerns on the following topics:

• Preventive measures
• Physical and mental stress
• Instrument-specific complaints