With one quarter of the year all over, and summer on its way, we run through your favourite posts last month.
First up this month is our ever-popular post on the value of Liebeth Aerts’ PhD, where she takes a look back one year after graduating.
Tag Archives: most read
Most read on Naturejobs: March 2016
With one quarter of the year done already, we look back at your favourite posts from last month. We’ll get right to it.
Answering the most-feared interview question is high on everyone’s mind. Our guide to expressing your greatest weakness in a positive way is on the leader board as the most read piece on Naturejobs this month. Glad you liked it!
Chris Woolston talked us through the best make-up for a lab in group dynamics: a lab of their own in March. Your research group is important, and finding the right balance between different members of staff may just tip you into academic success. Continue reading
Naturejobs: Let’s look over 2015
The Naturejobs blog has flourished this year – we hope you have too.
2015 was a great year for science, and it’s been a wonderful year for Naturejobs as well. We’ve hosted three career expos – in London, Boston and Düsseldorf – have published more free content than ever before, be it blog post, podcast or video. We’ve met interesting scientists, visited all manner of fascinating labs, and covered a wide remit of news, views, and everything in between.
We hope you’ve all been entertained by, and have benefited from, the advice and stories we publish here, and we’re hoping to see you all in the 2016 for more careers content that will help you find – and succeed at – that dream job. Here’s a quick rundown of the stories you most enjoyed from 2015. Continue reading
Most read on Naturejobs: July 2015
Reply
What makes a good scientist; Leaving academia; ERC funding and much more from Naturejobs this month.
This month on the Naturejobs blog we’ve published 17 blog posts (18 if you include this one!). That’s a lot of words, and a lot of advice from your peers.
On the last Friday of every month we share the top picks, as chosen by you. Feast your eyes:
1. What is the biggest missing piece in how we educate scientists? Responses, from a range of thought leaders, ranged from the practical to the philosophical in STEM education: to build a scientist on Nature Careers.
2. Insider Knowledge, by Chris Woolston, offers insights into what others might have already learned in a career that you have chosen to follow. His advice: take the time to seek out what inside information you can get to help decide whether or not this career is the right fit for you. Continue reading