Pondering a career in industry? Then you need to be aware that the industry job offer may contain elements not part of offers in academia, government or non-profits; industry jobs often include a profit sharing plan. Industry profit sharing takes two basic forms; dividends, a cash payment made to employees and share-holders based upon the performance of the company, usually on an annual basis, and equity, the actual ownership of shares of the company. Equity in a company is granted by one of the following methods: Stock grants: A company may grant actual shares of its stock to employees. The value of these grants is determined by the price…
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Dont Leave Us Hanging!
As you get ready to end your summer internship or your summer rotations as a grad student, don’t forget to keep in touch. We often hear from our younger trainees that you enjoyed your summer experience. You like the research and felt you got along great with your mentor(s). Yet, when many of you write to join the lab again the following summer or to get a letter of recommendation your feel like you never hear from the advisor or you get a lukewarm response. “Why?” you ask, “I did good work.” Of course you did, you just forgot to demonstrate how much the work meant to you and how…
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How a Mentor Helped Me Succeed…and How I Now Get to Help Her
Post written by Lori M. Conlan, Director of the Postdoc Office and the Career Services Center at the OITE This week I had lunch with the first mentor I had outside of the lab environment. In 2006, I had just left my postdoc to join a non-profit in Manhattan—the New York Academy of Sciences. I knew I could do the job running a career development program for graduate students and postdocs, but I was clueless about how life worked in an office. I started on a Tuesday, and by Friday I was sent off on my first business trip to Miami. One of my colleagues, the VP of marketing and…