Tips to identify the perfect employer

Knowing yourself, what you want and what motivates you should be the foundation of your job hunt, says Ulrike Träger.

Finding the right job and organization to work in after your PhD can be a daunting task. Coming from an academic setting, researchers tend to struggle to identify skill sets needed for a change in their career paths, asking questions like ‘what skills should a medical writer have?’ Job titles sometimes explain little about the actual work responsibilities—did you know, for example, that an ‘Innovation Facilitator’ communicates science and sets up links between academia and industry, to help speed up drug development or begin business opportunities?

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Nurture your science career with the new-look naturejobs.com

Over the past 12 years, we’ve worked hard to craft the Naturejobs website into an eminent career resource for scientists. In that time, with your help, we’ve become the largest dedicated jobs board for the scientific community worldwide. That’s why we’re excited to share the new naturejobs.com with you.

The re-launched site offers a fresh new look and improved functionality that lets you search, save and apply for jobs even more quickly and easily. Here’s how the new site can help you with your job search and career development:

  • Apply for jobs faster by uploading your CV and cover letter to your account
  • Find exactly the right job using the advanced search option, now delivered via filters on the left-hand side of your search results
  • Get jobs that match your search keywords sent to you by email using  our improved job alert sign-up process
  • Easily find useful science career news and features in our archive by filtering articles by date, discipline, career stage and more
  • See the very latest updates on science careers and jobs news via the Naturejobs Twitter feed, which has been integrated into the site

We’ll shortly be reinstating the career toolkit section with improved and expanded content, and there’s also a new section dedicated to employers.

This is just the first phase of the new naturejobs.com – watch out for further new features and improvements to the site over the coming weeks.

We hope you find the changes helpful. If you have any questions about the new site, please get in touch via our contact us page.