Career counsellors
The TU Delft Career Centre helps students, PhD candidates, EngD trainees and young alumni to prepare for the labour market and to develop career skills by offering them various workshops, programmes and background materials. We work together with employers, professional organisations and alumni in order to forge inspiring connections between them, TU Delft and students. Our team aims to apply a creative and innovative approach to meeting the needs of all our stakeholders. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions or suggestions. We look forward to having a pleasant working relationship with you!
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.
We have a brand-new career portal, the platform where students and companies can exclusively connect with each other, and find useful information like:
- Company profiles
- Job and internship offers
- Career Events: Workshops, Meet & Greets and much more
Mary Zuiderwijk
Available: Tue-Wed-Thur
Mary specialises in advising students on study options. She has presented many workshops on study choices, rethinking study options, or looking for the best Master to apply for.
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.
Hilde Plokker
Available: Mon-Tue-Wed-Thu
Hilde has most of her experience in her role as a job specialist, trainer and coach at UWV. A government's benefits organization where she worked at the unemployment benefits (WW) department.
She has studied Human Resource Management with a minor in International Management and Consultancy at the Hogeschool Rotterdam. Her work experience also includes working in London and Sydney. In her role at TU Delft, she will be a career counsellor with speciality in business relations.
