*Please note that this boost consists of three consecutive meetings that count as modules of the '‘Personal Professional Skills Lab’ ' for FSW first-year students of IRO, Political Science, Psychology and Cultural Anthropology studies. This boost is worth three credits towards the PPSL certificate. 

Introduction
Almost done with your first year and wondering how to proceed after this? Unsure about your further education or work? What actually suits your interests and dreamed future best? 

The world, including the professional one, is going through drastic changes. As a student, you face a professional future that is less predictable than it used to be. Even if you are convinced of your own abilities, direction and career prospects are not simply handed to you by social demand. You will have to chart your own course amid the uncertainties and the sea of possibilities. An essential aspect of this is to know and formulate your own talent and develop and wield it.  It also takes knowledge of your favorite way of getting yourself in the way.  

The Personal Development Centre therefore offers students who want to prepare properly for this a 'Talent Boost' programme with a small group of fellow students. The Talent Boost is an intensive, short-term mini-course of 3 interactive seminars, (peer) consultation (and possibly: individual coaching), each with personal preparation.

Course objective: getting to grips with your own course 
As a springboard at this stage of your studies, we offer this (free of charge) course that: 

• helps to increase your self-insight and confidence; 

• personal tools to help you find your way in your studies and in the job market. 

We help you gain insight into your own motives and talents, explore and anchor your professional goals, face and tackle self-limiting patterns, and help you commit to achievable challenges, recognizing the competences you have gained in life. The course helps you acquire these meta-skills and is thus not a direct presentation of the professional field. 

Talent Boost programme 
The Talent Boost combines three seminars in a logical sequence, that you follow together with  a small group. Read more about the elements of the programme underneath.