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16 Apr 2018 | 08:24 GMT

How to use your graduate school training to create a successful business without any investors

Posted by David Payne | Categories: Business, Collaboration, PhD

How to use your graduate school training to create a successful business without any investors

In graduate school, we lived by two unspoken, yet sacred, rules: you never asked a grad student when they were going to graduate, and you never asked what they were going to do after graduation.  Read more

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03 Jan 2018 | 12:30 GMT

Naturejobs podcast: A fresh start

Posted by David Payne | Categories: Career paths, Industry, Mobility, PhD, Podcast

Naturejobs podcast: A fresh start

  … Read more

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  • PhD
  • retirement
  • Transferable skills

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27 Sep 2017 | 13:00 GMT

How to escape a ‘paint-by-numbers’ career

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #ScientistOnTheMove, Ask the expert, Career paths, Industry, Mobility, Perspectives, US

How to escape a ‘paint-by-numbers’ career

If you’re like me, you entered university with a plan: to follow a career path that many had followed before. This is common, because school trains us to follow directions. Earning a degree involves predefined steps:  … Read more

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  • Academia to Industry
  • career design
  • career path
  • create
  • david giltner
  • david m giltner
  • own path
  • physics
  • Transferable skills
  • turningscience

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15 May 2017 | 13:00 GMT

Quick profiles: Emma Hilton

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Ask the expert, Blog, Career paths, Chemistry, Industry, Mobility, Research

Quick profiles: Emma Hilton

Emma is now Global Medical Affairs Leader for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in GSK’s Respiratory Division.  Read more

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08 Dec 2016 | 08:00 GMT

The competition that likes to say YES!

Posted by David Payne | Categories: Business, Collaboration, Competition

YES judges prepare to grill finalists

Epitome is a Singapore biotech start-up whose product pipeline is based on engineered tail proteins to tackle bacterial diseases. It wants a slice of the US’s $6bn acne market. Epitome’s founders are seeking raise $10m to build a factory where its cosmetic products can be manufactured. Investors will be rewarded with a seat on its board.  Read more

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07 Sep 2016 | 17:00 GMT

Finding job satisfaction as a data scientist

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Business, Career paths, Careers articles, Communication, Data, Research, Scientists on the move, Technology

Finding job satisfaction as a data scientist

Unlike most US students, Nathan Sanders declared his specialty as soon as he started undergraduate studies. He’d known for years that he wanted to study astronomy, but during his PhD at Harvard University he realized that the analysis itself enthralled him more than the applications for astronomy. He describes how he used his technical skills, and connections outside his academic program, to launch his career.  Read more

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29 Aug 2016 | 12:00 GMT

Transferable skills: What are scientists good at (other than science)?

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #NJCEBoston, #ScientistOnTheMove, Academia, Blog, Career paths, Industry, Internship, Mobility

Transferable skills: What are scientists good at (other than science)?

In today’s competitive world, it’s become increasingly common for scientists to question where their skills and knowledge will fit outside the lab. Academic research is a harsh place, littered with the victims of funding decisions and research projects that didn’t quite go to plan. The idea, even amongst scientists, that we are highly specialised professionals with no role outside the lab has become a persistent limitation in this search. So, what is the need for a scientist in any other capacity?  Read more

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  • creative
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26 May 2016 | 12:00 GMT

What did your job search teach you?

Posted by Karen Kaplan | Categories: Blog, Business, Career paths, Careers articles, Communication, Industry, PhD, Postdoc, Postgraduate, Research, Technology, Uncategorized

What did your job search teach you?

Most PhD students and postdocs working today will not go on to head their own labs. With little infrastructure to guide them to the next stage, young scientists are inventing it themselves.  Read more

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  • career
  • career paths
  • careers
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23 May 2016 | 17:30 GMT

So you want to be a data scientist (again)?

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Ask the expert, Blog, Business, Data, Industry, Mobility, Perspectives, Technology

So you want to be a data scientist (again)?

Guest contributor Daniel Harris of SoftwareAdvice.com  … Read more

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  • big data
  • career paths
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13 May 2016 | 12:00 GMT

Research in industry: A great career choice

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #ScientistOnTheMove, Academia, Ask the expert, Career paths, Chemistry, Europe, Industry, Mobility, PhD, Postdoc, Postgraduate, Research, Scientists on the move

Albert in his lab

Guest contributor Albert Isidro-Llobert  … Read more

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