Institute for Coaching & Career

The Institute for Coaching & Career accompanies students with practical support, services and information on their way into professional life. It opens a platform for exchange and discussion, offers prevention measures and contact persons for health concerns, is dedicated to topics such as individual success and making an impact in society, and promotes a holistic approach to a long-term career with corresponding offers.

Institute for Coaching & Career
+43 676 88122 380
career@moz.ac.at

Mirabellplatz 1
5020 Salzburg

About

The Institute for Coaching & Career combines teaching, workshop, course and coaching offers that support students in their physical and mental health, teach the basics of self-management and support the transition from university education to the working world.
The offers not only show how to successfully and healthily assert oneself in one's profession, but also what paths can be taken and what doors are open to one with one's own degree.

In addition to the curricular teaching, lectures, workshops and courses are offered every semester with experts from the cultural sector, business and health care on topics that help students successfully pursue their individual artistic careers.

Individual projects, personal goals and own topics can also find support within the framework of coaching offers.

All employees and alumni of the university also have the opportunity to take advantage of the offers in the areas of "Self Marketing", "Body and Soul" and "Artist as Entrepreneur". Some courses can also be credited as "free electives".

With external experts from the cultural sector, business and health care, the Career Centre, as part of the Institute for Coaching & Career, offers a new selection of lectures, workshops and courses every semester that students can attend to complement their study plan. The focus is on the three areas of "Self-Management - The Brand I", "Artist as Entrepreneur" and "Body & Soul - Health at Work".

In order to be able to actively participate in the offers of the Career Center, a written registration must be sent to career@moz.ac.at. Only after written confirmation does the registration become a fixed place.

Curricular offerings

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Compulsory subjects | Electives | Free electives

As an integral part of the curriculum, courses are integrated into the curricula at the University Mozarteum to support students with theoretical and practical content on career-related and health-related issues.

Occupational fields/ Contextual practice analysis
Compulsory subject BA Elementary Music and Dance Pedagogy 
(Course of the Orff Institute)

Professional self-management
Compulsory subject MA Elementary Music and Dance Pedagogy
(Course offered by the Orff Institute)

Stage and media law 1 & 2
Compulsory subject Acting and Directing
(Course offered by the Thomas Bernhard Institute)

Cultural Management: Organization of Work Processes
Compulsory subject Directing
(Course of the Thomas Bernhard Institute)

Music School and Project Management 1 & 2
Compulsory elective MA Instrumental (Vocal) Pedagogy
(Course offered by the Department of Music Education Salzburg)

Music School Management
Free elective subject
(Course offered by the Department of Music Education Salzburg)

Legal basics: Music school and music management 1 & 2
Compulsory elective MA Instrumental (Vocal) Pedagogy
(Course of the Department of Music Education Salzburg)

Self-management (lecture series)
Compulsory subject BA Instrumental Studies / Free elective subject
(Organization: Institute for Coaching & Career)

Self-management
Compulsory subject MA Instrumental Studies / Free elective subject
(Organization: Institute for Coaching & Career)

Speaking Technique and Rhetoric (Salzburg) & (Innsbruck)
Compulsory subject BA Instrumental (Vocal) Pedagogy
(Course of the Department of Music Education Innsbruck)

Speaking technique and rhetoric
Compulsory subject teacher training, UF Music Education, Innsbruck
(Course offered by the Department of Music Education Innsbruck)

Breath, movement and meditation (Salzburg) & (Innsbruck)
Free elective
(Career Center course)

Performance, audition and competition coaching 1 & 2
Compulsory subject BA instrumental studies
(Organization: Institute for Coaching & Career)

Performance, audition and competition coaching 1 & 2
Compulsory MA instrumental studies
(Organization: Institute for Coaching & Career)

Performance training 1 & 2
Compulsory MA singing subject
(Course of the Department of Voice Studies)

Movement theory 1, 2, 3 & 4
Acting is a compulsory subject
(Course at the Thomas Bernhard Institute)

Feldenkrais for musicians
Free elective
(Career Center course)

Holistic-somatic methods (Innsbruck)
Compulsory subject BA teaching, UF music education / compulsory subject BA teaching / UF instrumental music education
(Organization: Institute for Coaching & Career)

Gymnastics/conditioning 1 & 2
Compulsory subject BA singing / free elective subject
(Course at the Thomas Bernhard Institute)

Body Education 1, 2, 3 & 4
Compulsory BA singing subject
(Course of the Department of Voice Studies)

Physical Workouts 1, 2, 3 & 4
Compulsory subject MA Opera and Musical Theater / Elective subject MA Singing
(Course of the Department of Voice Studies)

Body awareness 1, 2, 3 & 4
Acting is a compulsory subject
(Course at the Thomas Bernhard Institute)

Music and medicine
Compulsory subject BA instrumental (singing) pedagogy / free elective subject
(Organization: Institute for Coaching & Career)

Music Physiology
Compulsory subject BA teaching, UF music education Compulsory subject BA teaching, UF instrumental music education
(Organization: Institute for Coaching & Career)

Physio and mental coaching 1 & 2
Compulsory subject BA instrumental studies BA Instrumental (Vocal) Pedagogy
(Organization: Institute for Coaching & Career)

Dealing with demanding situations 1 & 2
Compulsory subject BA instrumental studies / elective subject (Organization: Institute for Coaching & Career)

Dealing with demanding situations 1 & 2
Compulsory MA instrumental studies / elective subject (Organization: Institute for Coaching & Career)

 

 

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Musicians' health at the Mozarteum University


For most people, practising music is not just a profession, but a vocation, and it demands continuous physical and mental peak performance. Tension, pain, posture problems, but also mental stress such as stage fright and performance anxiety often arise and make playing and performing a challenge.

With various offers, most of which are anchored in the curriculum, the Mozarteum University also supports a long-term physically and mentally healthy career for students.

With experts from the fields of medicine, psychology, bodywork and physiotherapy, the main focus is on prevention. The students are educated about prevention possibilities, informed about ergonomics, physiological and anatomical basics and are also taught how to deal with mental challenges such as stage fright with appropriate exercises.

The focus is always on maintaining health and well-being in order to prophylactically counteract and sustainably prevent typical musicians' illnesses.

Counselling offers

When: The 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 acquisition
  • 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.

Through the Institute for Coaching & Career, individual coaching sessions of 60 minutes each are offered in addition to the curricular courses in the area of health prevention. In these sessions, individual solutions to mental and physical issues, stress management and stage presence can be developed and practiced. Personal advice on preparing for concerts, overstress, pain while making music, proper practicing and relaxation techniques can be found, as well as everything you need to know for a healthy, professional life as an artist.

This offer is free to all students; however, since the number of these hours is limited, a person can take up to a maximum of two individual coaching hours.

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:

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), as desired
Who: Franziska Wallner
Registration at: 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 bring us into an imbalance and affect our psychological well-being.

In this counselling service, you have the opportunity 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
  • or other challenges you want or need to face in your life.

In individually arranged one-to-one sessions, the process of finding solutions to the desired issues is supported, new perspectives are offered and access to your own resources is encouraged.

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), as desired
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 family members in need of care, the pressure becomes even greater and the reconciliation of work and caring duties presents those concerned with a great challenge. For this reason, the Family Service of the Mozarteum University, in cooperation with the Department for Family Affairs of the ÖH Mozarteum, 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 deal with work and caring responsibilities, how to position oneself vis-à-vis the employer and how to strengthen one's own appearance. In addition to collecting ideas for possible jobs, the topics for the individual interviews can also include specific role plays for the job interview, support tips for drawing up a budget, or advice on designing a CV.

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

Organised by the Alumni Network of the Mozarteum University, the mentoring programme for career entry 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 discussions on the topics of career entry, self-organisation and marketing, stays 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 mediators" or personality trainers and do not offer ready-made solutions. It is about working out paths and perspectives together. The placement of mentors is subject to availability, individual and specific to the degree programme. The duration of the collaboration is agreed upon individually between the mentoring partners (mentor and mentee). Cooperation over several weeks and months is recommended.

The Alumni Network of the University Mozarteum Salzburg

 

When: The 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), as desired.
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 and prevention
  • Physical and mental stress
  • Instrument-specific complaints
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