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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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  • enterpreneurship
  • Transferable skills

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17 May 2017 | 13:00 GMT

Meditation on a Caltrain: Understanding where to travel to next

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Blog, Business, Career paths, Collaboration, Communication, Industry, Mobility, Perspectives, Scientists on the move, US

Meditation on a Caltrain: Understanding where to travel to next

This piece was one of two winners of the Science Innovation Union writing competition, Oxford.  Read more

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  • business
  • California
  • caltrain
  • career paths
  • george busby
  • meditation
  • move
  • options
  • papers
  • publishing
  • research
  • science
  • scientific research
  • silicon valley
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27 Mar 2017 | 17:00 GMT

Employment rights in post-Brexit Britain

Posted by David Payne | Categories: Diversity, Europe, news

Employment rights in post-Brexit Britain

“Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves, First we’ll kick the Poles out, Then we’ll get the gays.”  … Read more

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  • brexit
  • business
  • EU
  • Europe
  • gay
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  • research
  • science
  • UK

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19 Jan 2017 | 13:00 GMT

How useful is an MBA?

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #NJCELondon, #ScientistOnTheMove, Business, Career paths, People Management, Perspectives

  … Read more

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  • business
  • career expo
  • industry
  • London
  • MBA
  • Naturejobs
  • professional society
  • qualifications
  • up skill
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14 Oct 2016 | 09:30 GMT

Commercial break

Posted by Karen Kaplan | Categories: Business, Career paths, Communication, Industry, Internship, Research, Technology, US

Commercial break

How can you cross that bridge? You need business savvy. And there are plenty of ways to get it – whether through a formal business degree, training or internship programmes or even your institution’s technology-transfer office. We’ve rounded up some options for you to consider.  Read more

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05 Sep 2016 | 12:00 GMT

Why building a start-up is probably your most sensible career path

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #ScientistOnTheMove, Ask the expert, Blog, Business, Career paths, Competition, Data, Industry, Mobility, Research, Scientists on the move, Technology

Why building a start-up is probably your most sensible career path

In stark contrast to the proliferation of web based start-ups led by young founders, science based start-ups have typically remained the domain of seasoned professors, spinning out breakthrough technology built on years of research. This is changing rapidly, and it’s now more viable than ever to start a science based company straight out of a PhD. In fact, it might just be one of the most sensible career paths that you can take.  Read more

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13 Jul 2016 | 17:00 GMT

Eight things that are more important for success than intelligence

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Blog, Career paths, Communication, Data, Mobility, People Management, Perspectives, Relationships

Eight things that are more important for success than intelligence

   … Read more

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  • extrovert
  • financial success
  • intelligence
  • management
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22 Jun 2016 | 15:00 GMT

Bridging science and real world impact with confidence

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #NJCESanFrancisco, Academia, Blog, Career paths, Communication, Competition, People Management, Perspectives, Postdoc, Postgraduate, Research

Bridging science and real world impact with confidence

Naturejobs career expo journalism competition winner Diane N.H. Kim  … Read more

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  • bioengineering
  • bioimaging
  • business
  • challenge
  • comfort zone
  • communication
  • conference
  • confidence
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  • Diane N. H. Kim
  • experience
  • immunotherapy
  • journalism competition
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  • naturejobs career expo journalism competition
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22 Feb 2016 | 19:00 GMT

Selling yourself: 7 sales techniques to advance your career

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Ask the expert, Business

Selling yourself: 7 sales techniques to advance your career

In certain circles, ‘sales’ has become taboo; the word summons memories of double glazing, cleaning supplies, or accidents that weren’t your fault. Despite this, a great salesperson simply believes in their product, and knows how to portray its finer points in an effective way.  Read more

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10 Nov 2014 | 06:00 GMT

Bench to Business: How women in STEM academia can use corporate models to their favour

Posted by Julie Gould | Categories: Career paths, Industry

From left to right: Lawrence Krauss, Justine Cassell, Ivana Gadjanski, Mande Holford, Tony Pan and Diva Tommei

Contributors Mandë Holford and Ivana Gadjanski  … Read more

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  • Women in science. STEM

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