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27 Sep 2017 | 13:00 BST

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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21 Jul 2017 | 13:00 BST

From Doctorate to Data Science: A very short guide

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Blog, Career paths, Collaboration, Communication, Industry, Mobility, Postgraduate, Research, Social media, Technology

From Doctorate to Data Science: A very short guide

Are you one of the many PhDs considering a career in data science? I completed a PhD in neuroscience at Stanford three years ago; now I’m a data scientist at Uber. During my time in industry, I’ve found that the skills we develop in graduate school, such as analytical thinking, statistics, communication skills, and – oh yes – tenacity in the face of adversity, make us a great fit for the role.  Read more

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  • #PhD
  • Academia to Industry
  • advice
  • collaboration
  • data
  • data analysis
  • data heavy
  • data research
  • data science
  • data scientist
  • differences between academia industry
  • experimentation
  • grace tang
  • information
  • natural science to data research
  • neuroscience
  • Stanford
  • uber

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12 Jan 2017 | 13:00 GMT

Is there an age limit to moving into industry?

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #NJCELondon, Ask the expert, Blog, Industry, People Management

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  • 2016
  • Academia to Industry
  • age
  • age limit
  • ageism
  • career expo
  • diversity
  • GSK
  • London
  • moving
  • Naturejobs
  • pauline williams

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27 Dec 2016 | 13:00 GMT

What motivated you to move into industry?

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #NJCELondon, #ScientistOnTheMove, Career paths, Research

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  • 2016
  • academia
  • Academia to Industry
  • career expo
  • guide
  • industry
  • London
  • motivation
  • Naturejobs

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07 Dec 2016 | 17:00 GMT

Finding job satisfaction as a drug safety manager

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #ScientistOnTheMove, Academia, Blog, Career paths, Industry, Mobility, Research, Scientists on the move

Finding job satisfaction as a drug safety manager

Steffen Schulz was completing his PhD in medical neuroscience when he realised he needed more job security than academia could offer. Now, he works as a drug safety manager in his native Berlin.  Read more

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  • #PhD
  • academia
  • Academia to Industry
  • berlin
  • Biology
  • drug
  • Germany
  • industry
  • interview
  • manager
  • medical
  • mobility
  • movement
  • neuroscience
  • Q&A
  • safety
  • steffen schulz
  • Trade Talk

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16 Nov 2016 | 17:00 GMT

Finding job satisfaction in industrial research

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Blog, Business, Industry, Research, Scientists on the move, Technology

Finding job satisfaction in industrial research

She found she could still do the work she loved at the bench by doing product development research at Thermo Fisher Scientific.  Read more

Tags:

  • #PhD
  • Academia to Industry
  • experimental design
  • fisher
  • Nature
  • Naturejobs
  • postdoc
  • research
  • scientific
  • scientist on the move
  • shikha mishra
  • thermo
  • Trade Talk
  • transition

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15 Aug 2016 | 12:00 BST

From academia to industry: A short guide

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #ScientistOnTheMove, Academia, Blog, Business, Career paths, Careers articles, Communication, Industry, People Management, Research, Scientists on the move

From academia to industry: A short guide

Guest contributor Aliyah Weinstein  … Read more

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  • #PhD
  • academia
  • Academia to Industry
  • academic
  • Aliyah Weinstein
  • career change
  • guest contributor
  • industrial
  • industry
  • network
  • research
  • science
  • transition

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28 Jun 2016 | 15:00 BST

How did you approach the transition from academia to industry?

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #NJCESanFrancisco, #ScientistOnTheMove, Academia, Ask the expert, Career paths, Events, Industry, Mobility, Multimedia, Picks of the week, Scientists on the move, US

We asked speakers at the Naturejobs career expo, San Francisco, how they made the move.  Read more

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  • academia
  • Academia to Industry
  • career expo
  • industry
  • moving into industry
  • Naturejobs
  • networking
  • research commercialization

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23 May 2016 | 17:30 BST

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

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Ask the expert, Blog, Business, 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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  • Academia to Industry
  • Ask the expert
  • big data
  • career paths
  • careers advice
  • computing
  • Daniel Harris
  • data
  • data science
  • data tech
  • guest contributor
  • science
  • Scientific Data
  • social media
  • technology
  • Transferable skills

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18 May 2016 | 17:00 BST

Finding job satisfaction in technology transfer

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #ScientistOnTheMove, Blog, Career paths, Careers articles, Communication, CV, Industry, Internship, Mobility

Finding job satisfaction in technology transfer

As a business development officer at STEMCELL Technologies in Vancouver, Canada, Ben Thiede evaluates new technologies and negotiates deals that bring scientific advances to market. He describes his move from graduate studies toward law and into his current position.  Read more

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  • Academia to Industry
  • alternative careers for scientists
  • Canada
  • careers out of the lab
  • graduate
  • job satisfaction
  • research commercialisation
  • science
  • science to industry
  • STEMCELL technologies
  • tech
  • tech transfer
  • technology transfer
  • Trade Talk

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