BGS Career Development
Making It Count!
For doctoral students considering a postdoc position, SfN has created a toolkit for exploring career options. Its contents include advice on how to:
Read more and download the toolkit presentation here.
An oft-heard piece of career advice is the importance of following-up on an interview with a thank-you note. This Inside Higher Ed article provides a slight alteration to that advice – sit down and write everything you can remember about the interview. A few questions to consider include:
Completing this task before details of the interview begin to fade can help you to reference specific details in your thank-you note. If offered an additional interview, these notes may help you predict future questions. If not, the notes on your own performance may help to improve your interview skills down the line, for other positions.
The author details other questions to consider in your notes – read them here.
Please find below the 2018-2019 schedule of workshops organized as part of the BGS Professional Skills Series. BGS will publish additional details for later workshops in the near future.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Intramural Training and Education (OITE) provides an informative blog post about the challenges and rewards of an international career. Though the challenges of a domestic job search – networking, negotiating, and more – can be multiplied when navigating the norms of an unfamiliar culture, the advantages of an expanded world-view are not to be discounted. The author provides links to helpful resources, such as questions to ask before accepting an international job offer and tips for negotiating across cultures.
Read more here.
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) recently sought input from the scientific community about strategies to enhance successful postdoctoral career transitions, in order to promote faculty diversity. 89 responses were recorded, from stakeholders including postdoctoral scientists, faculty members, and professional societies.
Read about the most frequently mentioned barriers as well as potential solutions here.
BGS presents the next installment in the Professional Skills Series, “Mentoring 101: Think Globally, Act Locally.”
Each of us at every point in our professional development is both mentor and mentee; it’s the balance between the two that can change with time. Case in point: many PhD students, while identified as mentees within the context of training, already serve as incredibly important mentors to undergraduate or new graduate students and are in fact critical to the career decisions those students make.
Please join us as our own Dr. Michael Nusbaum discusses the dynamics of mentorship from all its perspectives, both within and beyond academia. Please register by November 30, 2018. To register, click here or copy and paste the URL below into your internet browser:
https://goo.gl/forms/hM32Z3OX0LHoJUNX2
If you have any questions, please contact Rebecca Lopez.
