• Transition from Academia to Industry to Start-ups, and important differences between them
• Assessing your new technology might also be your next job
• Similarities and differences between grant funding and early investment funding

Dr. John Younger 
University City Science Center

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Please consider joining us for Princeton’s GradFUTURES Virtual Forum – April 29, 30 & May 1. 

The goal of the GradFUTURES Virtual Forum is to accelerate connectivity among and between graduate students, faculty, staff, alumni, and leaders from a diverse array of fields. This Forum will encourage attendees to forge deeper connections, build community and explore opportunities for leadership and meaningful professional development within all fields of endeavor.
 
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The use of Individual Development Plans (IDPs) have been widely promoted to support graduate student professional development. IDPs are structured frameworks to consider short-term and long-term career plans, laying a foundation for meaningful goal-setting.   This workshop will introduce trainees to knowledge and skills to inform IDP discussions.  It is open to all trainees, including master's and doctoral students.

This workshop is designed to enhance Individual Development Planning by infusing facts and tools to supplement considerations at various...

This year we will be moving the NIH Career to an online event. Look for online panels, taped interviews, and Twitter chats to get the same information to plan your career path.

The NIH Career Symposium highlights the diversity of career choices available to your generation of biomedical researchers.  Whether you are a new graduate student, postdoc, or clinical fellow just beginning to consider career options or a senior student/fellow ready to look for a job, the NIH Career Symposium is for you.

We invite any postdoc, clinical fellow or PhD-level...

Are you interested in doing an internship? Want to learn how to start? The Therapeutics Graduate Program (TGP) has been very successful in this space with its internship requirement. A growing number of students are now considering doing internships to help develop skills, explore career opportunities, and focus research interests/directions. During this workshop, we will discuss the administrative process, the importance of...

Do you want to try out real job tasks in different fields all while sitting at home? 

Job simulations can help you explore bioscience PhD career paths, narrow down options, and make informed career choices. The job sims are vetted by professionals with field expertise - the projects are true-to-task. 

Join Thi Nguyen, a neuroscientist, career coach, and founder of InterSECT job simulations. Be ready to work in groups on a job simulation and reflect on your relevant skills and strengths for different fields. 

The Program in Graduate Education (PGE) at Harvard Medical School (HMS) is pleased to host this session showcasing the growing array of post-docs available for life sciences trainees looking for training in the areas of teaching, education research, higher ed administration and science policy.  These post-docs exist in varying forms, some preparing trainees for careers combining scientific research with work in these areas of expertise.

This session will feature professionals who are hiring managers, mentors or past participants in these "non-...

To LinkedIn or not to LinkedIn? That has been a question for the scientists ever since the platform launched in early 2000s.

Although, scientists may have shrugged the usefulness of LinkedIn in the past, the platform is now being used by a growing number of researchers who are realizing that LinkedIn can help them not only with finding their next career opportunity, but also in a number of ways that may not be immediately obvious.

Join Milka Kostic, Program Director of Chemical Biology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and LinkedIn aficionado, to learn more about...

What are your career plans post-Harvard? What are your options? How can you even get started? Jump start your career and take on these big career questions! In this webinar, you will launch your self-assessment process to better understand your skills, interests, and values in the context of an effective job search, and we will discuss a variety of career options available to PhDs in the sciences. To participate in this webinar, please register using the same email address you use to log in to Crimson Careers.

Sign up here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/...

Eligibility: Open to ALL Harvard University students.

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We'd like to inform HILS students that RA Capital Management is running our spring "Business of Biotechnology" short course (Mar. 2-11, 2020), free to accepted applicants. ...

Esco Ventures, the life science investment arm of Esco Group, will be holding an information session on its Morphosis Fellows Program next month on the HMS campus. This Program is seeking applicants of all nationalities. For more information on Morphosis or on Esco Ventures, you can check out their website here: ...

Join a presentation and discussion with Matt Bunn, Professor of Practice at Harvard Kennedy School, to learn about ways to influence policy as a scientist. Matt will also share his experience influencing US unclear policies.

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