Young Professionals

Are you enthusiastic and inquisitive, do you take initiative, and would you like to find out what it’s like to be part of a progressive research institute in the field of water, subsurface and infrastructure? Do you also have the ambition to help develop smart solutions, innovations and applications for people, the environment and society? Then Deltares offers the challenging learning environment and the career path you’re looking for! As a young professional at Deltares you can join Young Deltares. This is a network at Deltares that anyone who feels young and dynamic can be part of. The Young Deltares network encourages integration between different departments within the organisation, new ideas are developed in it and social activities are organised at regular intervals.

Young Professional Program

Deltares offers all recent graduates a 2-year Young Professional Program. The goals of the program are:

To accelerate personal and professional development
To get acquainted with the Deltares organization
To create a learning community.

Participants follow this program together with peers. Intervision with this group is included to explore actual questions.

The Young Professional Program focuses on a selection of very important skills that will help the junior advisor/researcher in his/her career at Deltares.

The program consists of 7 modules:

1

Ownership

2

Working in projects @ Deltares

3

Intercultural cooperation & communication

4

Smart work & time management

5

External orientation & knowledge entrepreneurship

6

Writing advice and research reports

7

Network and impact

Ask our employees

For me it is important that sustainability is Deltares’ core principle in the research and advisory activities. Deltares ensures that activities contribute to global agendas, for instance the Sustainable Development Goals. In addition, as a knowledge organization, Deltares applies state-of-the-art approaches and innovative ideas in its research and advisory content. This challenges the employees to be adaptive, fast learning and continuously improving. In my opinion, this challenge is inspiring. Colleagues with diverse expertise are willing to help each other and our international working environment supports us to exchange ideas.”

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