The self-employed scientist
Founding a company, especially as a natural scientist, sounds as desirable and realistic like climbing the Mount Everest: fantastic! But after all also a little fanciful.
Founding a company, especially as a natural scientist, sounds as desirable and realistic like climbing the Mount Everest: fantastic! But after all also a little fanciful.
“You are not a loser, you are a starter,” I calm her down. Starters are impulsive, creative people who constantly come up with ideas, but show little interest in completing a task. “Boring, nothing new”, an inner voice seems to tell them. Starters are by no means losers, they just need to find the right environment to be productive – or they create it themselves often enough due to their personality.
Modern communication and self-marketing need to be used deliberately and with common sense.
He follows his dream, he wants to become a university professor. For years he fights himself through the German academic system, but that is not always easy. And the future is uncertain, very uncertain to say the least. An interview with Dr. Eloi Montanez.
How to become a professor – what hiring committees are looking for. Academic portfolio. Chemistry World. Publications, funding and more.
Gray area interview: Questions are legal if they allow the employer to assess whether you can, in general, fulfill the job’s tasks.
We’re talking about the same thing. Fresh graduates are reluctant to describe their skills with terms like project management since they assign such terms solely to industry. It is more helpful if you look at the substance of what you’ve been up to over the last few years; then describe it using terms that are familiar to your readers. This is not bragging, but translation work.
A short debate on networking in a course for PhD students. Half of the participants should defend the statement “Networking outside of my department is a waste of time,” while the other half argue against it.
Medical science liaison MSL, Dr. Martijn Bijker, fstp from science to pharma, explains the role of MSL in a pharma company