Career Paths
Maida
Taylor
Why you did not get that job - Part II
I just came across a piece on healthecareers talking about the personal flaws that turn hiring managers against a particular candidate. http://www.healthecareers.com/article/top-5-personal-reasons-you-didnt-land-the-job/170890
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Maida
Taylor
Playing Well with Others: Can an MD find happiness in the Pharmaceutical Industry?
In 1961, the medical sociologist Anselm Strauss published his seminal study, “The Boys in White,” about how the treatment of medical students affects their characters and behaviors.
Ping
Xiao
Innovation Is Also the Key for Your Career Success In a Post-recession World in the Industry -The 7 Innovation Secrets of Steve
Innovation is a fundamental skill for a PhD, an important part of being a good technician and helping the PhD to design experiments that yield precise results. In order to get a PhD degree, however, one has to have new ideas and new findings in a specific field. Yes, we know how to analyze, an...
Jennifer
Reineke Pohlhaus
So you want to be a Science Writer? Some Things you should know
At the 2011 Annual AAAS Meeting, I went to a seminar called “Media Unbounded: What Comes Next.” It was a very interesting topic, especially for anyone considering the field of scientific journalism. Here are some highlights from the session:1. Audiences are not fleeing t...
Mike
Chang
Planning an accidental career
Hi, my name is Mike, and I consider myself first and foremost a scientist. I am currently a Senior Systems Analyst at a non-profit institution. Quite a departure from the bench, eh? I was invited to share my career experiences, which haven’t been terribly typical. I hope that sharing my lessons le...
Todd
Pihl
Academics to Business – The Tough Transition
Over the next few months, my colleagues and I are going to be writing about the transition from being an academic scientist to working in the commercial sector. In some cases, we'll talk about it from the standpoint of a postdoc looking for their first position in the commercial sector a...
Randall
Ribaudo
The Importance of Understanding the Human Workflows
What is the Human Workflow? It is my passion. It is the process by which actual users-- real humans want or need to function in order to get certain tasks done. And it is one of the most ignored concepts in the business world-- whether in product development, sales, customer support-- wh...
Randall
Ribaudo
A Case Study of Moving from Academia to Industry
I'm really excited to be part of the Bio Careers blogosphere and am looking forward to interacting with you all. I'm a molecular immunologist by training and came up through the well-worn academic path-- Biochemistry/Physiology undergrad program (McGill University) followed by PhD program in i...
Jenne
Relucio
5 Ways to Find Out What Else You Can Do With that PhD!
As far as the average graduate career goes, the realization that the academic path is not the way you want to go can hit anytime. It may strike during your post-quals slump, or when you’ve spent a month’s worth of late weekend nights in the lab, or even the year before you graduate. Unfortunatel...
Clement
Weinberger
How I got to work as a medical writer (You might be surprised)
I had been occupied for four years selling oncology reference laboratory testing services. It was a great job. It was with a start-up venture capital-backed company. We offered a wide range of immunohistochemical testing and gene rearrangement analyses that the “big labs” didn't do yet. Was a Ph...