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Career Reflections: Advice from Halvar Trodahl
OPN spoke with Halvar Trodahl, a senior associate at McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm, to get his perspective on working as a consultant with a Ph.D. in physics.What is your...
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How to Build Your Online Brand Using LinkedIn
Lauren Celano This post is based on content that has already appeared on the Propel Careers website and BioCareers.com. It is reproduced here with the author’s kind permission. Your online personal...
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How to benefit from internships, exchanges and scholarships
Christian Reimer Deciding where you want to conduct your graduate studies and on what kind of research are very difficult and important choices. Getting into the right program—ideally on a full...
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Do You Have the Right Attitude?
Lisa Balbes This post was adapted from content on the Career blog of the American Chemical Society (ACS) with the kind permission of ACS and the author.Have you ever had a great day, where everything...
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A Woman's Place Is in the Lab
Arlene Smith As a female engineer, one becomes accustomed to being a minority: in the lecture theatre, in the graduate lab and in the workplace. We have come a long way from the days when women...
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Building Your “Soft Skills”
Lauren Celano This post was adapted from content on the Propel Careers website and BioCareers.com. It is reproduced here with the author’s kind permission.I often advise Ph.D. students on career...
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Three Simple Steps to Networking Success
Arlene Smith I want to address a topic that is almost essential for career progression but can strike fear in an introvert’s heart: networking. Although it may feel like you’re the only one who gets...
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How to Use Your Business Card
Arti Agrawal “Here’s my card.” How often is this sentence uttered at conferences, meetings and other networking events? The ubiquitous business card is a marvelous thing, and its repertoire of...
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Effectively Personalizing Your Resume
Arlene Smith I recently attended a career-themed panel discussion at an OSA Topical Meeting. Scientists and engineers from industry and academia were represented in the panel and the audience, so this...
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Bright Futures Q&A: Michelle Xu
OPN: Many people in science initially envision themselves in an academic career. Was that your initial goal? If not, what career trajectory were you envisioning for yourself?I did not initially...
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The Mid-Career Transition
There are many reasons to begin searching for a new job or career path—and just as many everyday-life hindrances, such as recurring bill payments, that make taking the leap into a new position...
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In Email, Emojis Aren’t for Everyone
The rise in digital communications, and the use of technologies such as email in both personal and professional capacities, can blur the lines of etiquette. When it comes to the do's and don'ts of...
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