Career counsellors
Whether you’re actively looking for a job or just want to explore your career interests more generally, your objectives and situations are unique. We offer you the space to join our experienced Career Counsellors in a confidential setting to work through your thoughts and structure your career plans. Our professional counsellors have in-depth understanding of the challenges faced by young professionals in preparing for the labour market and can point you in the right direction towards a meaningful career with real impact.
A job interview can be a source of dread, especially if it's your first time. To offer you support and help you prepare, we therefore invite you to make an appointment to practice an interview with the Careers Service Team. During the 60-minute appointment, you can practice answering difficult interview questions and get feedback, as a way of improving your confidence.
Before the practice interview, you will be expected to send your CV and/or completed job application form to your allocated careers counsellor together with a description of the job or study programme for which you are applying. To gain maximum advantage from the practice interview, we recommend that you read the material in our Career Toolkit under the heading Interviews & Assessments. Practice interviews can be held in the TU Delft Career Centre, via videoconference or by telephone, depending on how the real interview will be conducted.
Claire Visée MSc
Available: Mon-Tue-Wed-Thur-Fri
Claire is a TU Delft alum herself, she understands what it means to be an engineer and what it entails to enter today’s labour market. Next to providing careers advice, she is also our company liaison.
Margret Welten
Available: Mon-Tue-Wed
Margaret supports PhDs taking stock and defining “what’s needed” in terms of their career. She is an experienced Human Resources professional and latterly trained to specialise in coaching. Margaret is an international and fully understands the challenges working and living in an international environment brings.
Iliana Yocheva
Available: Tue-Thur-Fri
Iliana has experience working in both the educational and the corporate sectors, latterly employed as Graduate Global Development Coordinator at Shell. Having graduated with a MSc in Biology where she specialised in Hydrobiology and water purification, she later trained as a therapeutic counsellor. Being international and having walked the path of professional realisation herself, she now supports the TU Delft students as Career Counsellor.
Marlies Koolhaas
Available: Mon-Tue-Wed-Thu
Marlies has enjoyed a successful career in the higher education field since 2005. At Erasmus University Rotterdam, she was Programme Manager for several courses including RSM's flagship programme, Master International Management. At Erasmus University College she coached students in making decisions about their studies, exchanges, internships and careers and she set up an alumni association to organise events that enabled alumni to (re)connect with students and alumni. Marlies is native Dutch and coaches on questions related to discovering the next step on your career path. As Career Coach here at TU Delft, she coaches in either Dutch or English.
Annemarie Koppenaal
Available: Mon-Wed-Fri
Following team leader positions in various companies, Annemarie has 15 years experience as a Career Coach and Organisational Trainer, working within the education, healthcare, government and corporate sector. Her coaching focuses on supporting individuals: clarifying what they really want, investigating how these wishes can turn into reality and designing the steps to move forward. Having worked with many international clients, she currently supports the TU Delft community as Career Coach in both Dutch and English.
Check in advance: the tips and tricks for CV and motivation letters in our online toolkit.
Schedule for summer 2024 (1 July - 31 August):
Online:
Wednesday and Friday
For the online walk-in hour, click here to choose your own time slot for an online CV/Motivation letter/LinkedIn tips. Select in the dropdown menu ‘ CV check/letter/LinkedIn’ to see the available time slots.
The consent form can also be found here and the necessary documents can be uploaded when you make an appointment.
Schedule from 1 September onwards:
Live:
Monday Live Café X
Tuesday Live Aula central Hall
Thursday Live Café X
For live walk-in hours, no appointment is needed. Please bring a printed copy to the meeting.
Online:
Wednesday and Friday
For the online walk-in hour, click here to choose your own time slot for an online CV/Motivation letter/LinkedIn tips. Select in the dropdown menu ‘ CV check/letter/LinkedIn’ to see the available time slots.
The consent form can also be found here and the necessary documents can be uploaded when you make an appointment.
To schedule an appointment, or if you have questions, please send an email to careercentre@tudelft.nl. Once you meet your assigned Career Counsellor, together you will identify whether one session is sufficient or whether a series of sessions (with a maximum of 6) is advised.
Cost and Cancellations
Individual consultations are free of charge for students, EngD trainees and PhDs and have a duration of 45 minutes. If you have confirmed an appointment but cannot show up due to illness or other circumstances, please let us know 24 hours in advance via careercentre@tudelft.nl. The sooner we know you won't be able to attend the session, the more likely we can help another student during that time. If you do not cancel in time or do not show up, we will charge €10 as a no-show fee.