Key data
Job description: Midwife, sociologist
Company: Freelance and FH JOANNEUM
I work in: Graz, Austria
I’ve worked here since: freelance since 2012, FH JOANNEUM since 2014
What I do:
- Supporting/accompanying/treating families during pregnancy and after birth
- Scientific work
- Courses based around pregnancy/birth at the Graz Midwifery Centre
Why I love my job:
- The intensive contact with people
- The feeling of being able to have a significant and very individual influence on a small scale
- The wide variety, choice and further development opportunities for actively pursuing your career
Important skills in my job:
- Heart
- Mind (these properties don’t do any harm in most jobs 🙂 )
- Spontaneity, flexibility in terms of taking on more ‘unconventional’ hours and assignments
My biggest accomplishment so far:
All of the families I get to know during the care process, some of which I even see again, are a little highlight in my career!
How I found my current job:
Networking is essential for self-employment. But for FH JOANNEUM, I submitted an official application.
What I learned for this job during my studies:
During my course at FH JOANNEUM, I acquired specific expertise, hands-on ‘empirical knowledge’ from the numerous internships and significant knowledge in the field of scientific work – even more than during my previous university studies.
Job prospects in my field:
Job prospects in my field are good with a varied range of positions thanks to the limited number of training places/number of midwives overall and academisation of midwifery training. A certain degree of flexibility is also beneficial in our field of work, as in many other fields nowadays.
I am:
- open
- balanced
- genuine, in tune with nature, empathetic, persistent, optimistic, accurate…
- …and sometimes different 😉
About my job:
I enjoy my work and am looking forward to the future challenges. In particular, I would like to continually develop my knowledge in my current field and combine additional, and often unexpected, tasks with my family and my leisure time…
