April

Searching for a job is a process that cannot simply be stopped at times of Corona. The ETH Alumni Association asked several HR managers about it. The current document enables an authentic glimpse behind the scenes of some HR department of renowned companies.  

Carlo Centonze studied forest engineering at ETH and today he is CEO of the textile chemistry company HeiQ. He talks to us about the good luck that led him to university and his current job as well as the highs and lows encountered in entrepreneurship. He attaches great importance to recognising potential, along with persistence as well as a lot of hard grit and determination.

Who doesn’t know this: Back and posture discomfort cause pain and hinder us in our everyday life. On 22nd April 2020, two HST Alumni Pascal Kaiser and Marco von Ow explain to 32 participants the root causes. They will show us methods to working off in a next event "How my training influences my daily habits to move".

Joeri Verasdonck comes from the Netherlands. After initially studying in his home country, he completed his doctorate at ETH Zurich. He’s now a product manager at Sensirion.  

On 2nd April, "money" was centre stage: Olga Miler talked about reasons of our uneasiness to talk about money and how to change it in an online seminar. The presentation was a brilliant mix between hard, partially financial, facts and practical advice. The bottom line for the 34 participants: Talk about finances, plan for yourself and try.

As an alternative to the traditional regulars’ table on the first Thursday of the month, the Alumni Chapter Luxembourg invited to a virtual meeting on April 2, 2020. The discussion group offered 12 participants a welcome change from usual activities like cleaning up, watching TV and reading to make the lock-down situation due to the Corona crisis more bearable.