Getting on the career ladder

Have you recently graduated in Kinesiology or Health Science and Technology? Are you looking for a job? We are happy to help you start your working life and offer the following tips:

Networking starts at university: maintain your contacts with other students, show an interest in their work placements and future plans, discuss possible career paths with assistant professors and lecturers. Once you leave university, you will need to actively endeavour to maintain contact with other alumni. There are various ways of doing this:

become a member of the HST Alumni and attend the HST Alumni events
join the HST Alumni group on Linkedin and Facebook
organise meet-ups
etc.

Take these opportunities to learn more about the careers and current employment situations of other HST and BWS alumni. Contacts with alumni who studied in the years before you may prove particularly useful because they may well already have changed job or been promoted any number of times.

The HST Alumni provides a free mentoring service for all disciplines. We can offer you the following assistance:

Contacts with people working in interesting positions
Strategies for applying for jobs
Information about starting salaries
Review of your covering letter or CV (also see services provided by the ETH Career Center)

Drop us an e-mail

Read our brochure "DownloadRange of Motion (PDF, 12 MB)" (PDF, 12 MB) and our "HST alumni of the month" portraits.

Attend events organised by the ETH Career Center

Use the ETH Career Center service

You will find graduates of BWS and HST courses in many professional fields, including the following:

Medical technology
Orthopaedic technology
Running and gait analysis
Pharmaceuticals
Nutrition science
Rehabilitation, occupational health, sports medicine
Sports physiology
Performance diagnostics
Training advice
Insurance industry
Prevention
Health promotion
Health policy
Organisation of sporting events
Personal training and coaching
Teaching posts (biology, sport, kinesiology)

Movement Scientists and health scientists traditionally work in the following positions:

Project managers
Developers
Consultants
Marketing managers
Scientific staff
Post-docs
Technical experts
Researchers
Coaches
Teachers/lecturers
Events specialists

The "DownloadRange of Motion (PDF, 12 MB)“ (PDF, 12 MB) brochure contains specific examples of professional kinesiologists.
In addition to this, the "HST alumni of the month" portraits shed light on the various professional biographies and fields of work of graduates of the "Health Sciences and Technology” course.