The University of Oldenburg takes into account the diversity of academic career paths and pursues the strategic goal of a culture of responsibility towards all its academics across the various career phases. The University of Oldenburg focuses in particular on early career researchers. To this end, it has adopted concepts papers that provide a guiding framework for the promotion of academics in early career phases. The promotion of transparent access to the doctorate, the ability to plan careers and reliable framework conditions in the postdoc phase, as well as the compatibility of career and family and care responsibilities are important to the university.

The University of Oldenburg takes a broad strategic approach to promoting the skills of researchers and includes all career stages from doctorate to professorship. The University of Oldenburg supports its researchers according to their career phase or profile. The University of Oldenburg follows a competence-based approach to further training and qualification programs in accordance with the guidelines of the European Competence Framework for Researchers of the European Commission. All researchers, regardless of their status and employment sector, can be categorized into the four profiles R1 - R4 and supported accordingly. The Research Profiles Descriptors Last but  not least, the University of Oldenburg is aware of its responsibility to qualify its academics for the non-university labor market - the majority of academics will take on (management) tasks outside academia, which is taken into account in the courses offered.