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Career planning for research bioscientists /
Career Planning for Research Bioscientists is an essential careers guide for bioscience doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers. It contains a wealth of information and resources specifically targeted at research bioscientists, with practical strategies to enhance career success in an increas...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, NJ :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
- Who is this book for?
- process of career planning
- Helping you with your career planning
- Content of the book
- How to use this book
- 2. Planning your career
- importance of career planning
- What is career planning?
- Career planning in action
- Conclusion
- 3. Self-awareness
- What is self-awareness?
- Practical ways to analyse your s̀elf' and increase self-awareness
- Conclusion
- 4. job market
- Career sectors
- Examples of job advertisements
- Analysis of job advertisements
- Self-employment
- Where are the jobs?
- Conclusion
- 5. Enhancing your employability
- changing nature of work
- Taking responsibility
- Taking a proactive approach
- Planned happenstance
- Personal and professional development
- Conclusion
- 6. Making applications
- Employer perspective
- Presenting a professional image
- Methods of application
- Conclusion
- 7. Successful interview technique
- Types of interviews
- Interview content: what questions will you be asked?
- Answering the questions
- Thinking of questions to ask the interviewer
- Preparation
- If you are offered the job
- If you are not offered the job
- Conclusion
- 8. Decision making and action planning
- Careers in research
- Other career options
- Decision making
- Taking action
- Turning decisions into action
- Conclusion
- Afterword
- Appendix 1 Career narratives
- Summaried list career narratives
- 1. Michel: professor, US university
- 2. Teresa: research fellow, Austrian university
- 3. John: lecturer, UK university
- 4. Andrew: lead scientist, protein design team, large agribiotechnology company
- 5. John: scientific team leader, drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics (DMPK), global contract research organisation
- 6. Joanna: product and R & D manager, small biotech company
- 7. Petra: scientific adviser, protein interaction services company
- 8. Ann: president and chief executive officer, small immunoreagent company
- 9. Yfke: senior medical writer, medical communications agency
- 10. Carol: freelance science editor, writer and training consultant
- 11. Mary: features editor, Teaching Tools in Plant Biology (learned journal)
- 12. Linda: teacher training co-ordinator, public research institute
- 13. Ruth: freelance science journalist
- 14. David: research associate, Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, National Academy of Sciences; Outreach Committee Co-chair, AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition
- 15. Edward: clinical trial co-ordinator, university cancer trial centre
- 16. Miguel: patent examiner, European Patent Office
- 17. Florent: scientific officer, Marie Curie Actions, European Commission
- 18. John: healthcare analyst, self-employed partnership
- 19. Annie: technology consultant, international technology consultancy
- 20. Ian: sound engineer, production services provider
- Appendix 2 Social media
- Appendix 3 Example CVs
- Appendix 4 Support and resources.