Name: Kara Lindstrom
Job Title & Company: Consultant, Booz Allen Hamilton
Location: Rockville, MD
How long you’ve been in your current job: Two years
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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:
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This is the twenty first in a series of profiles about recent NIH postdocs who have found an array of jobs, from academia to industry to communications and beyond, in the U.S. and abroad. What do they do now, and how did they get there? What challenges did they face, and what advice do they have? Read on to find out.
Name: Dr Brenda Diane Kostelecky
Job title and company: Health Science Policy Analyst, NCI
Location: Bethesda, MD
How long you’ve been in your current job: 10 months
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This is the twentieth in a series of profiles about recent NIH postdocs who have found an array of jobs, from academia to industry to communications and beyond, in the U.S. and abroad. What do they do now, and how did they get there? What challenges did they face, and what advice do they have? Read on to find out.
Name: Erika L. Barr
Job title and company: Co-director for NIH Community College Program & Coordinator of Special Projects, OITE, NIH
Location: Bethesda, MD
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This is the Nineteenth in a series of profiles about recent NIH postdocs who have found an array of jobs, from academia to industry to communications and beyond, in the U.S. and abroad. What do they do now, and how did they get there? What challenges did they face, and what advice do they have? Read on to find out.
Name: Jan Gutermuth
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This is the Seventeenth (and Eighteenth) in a series of profiles about recent NIH postdocs who have found an array of jobs, from academia to industry to communications and beyond, in the U.S. and abroad. What do they do now, and how did they get there? What challenges did they face, and what advice do they have? Read on to find out.
Names: Mollie and Travis Jewett
Current positions: Assistant professors of medicine, University of Central Florida
Location: Orlando, FL
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This is the Sixteenth in a series of profiles about recent NIH postdocs who have found an array of jobs, from academia to industry to communications and beyond, in the U.S. and abroad. What do they do now, and how did they get there? What challenges did they face, and what advice do they have? Read on to find out.
Name: Vanessa McMains
Current position: Media relations representative, Johns Hopkins Medical Institute
Location: Baltimore, MD
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This is the fifteenth in a series of profiles about recent NIH postdocs who have found an array of jobs, from academia to industry to communications and beyond, in the U.S. and abroad. What do they do now, and how did they get there? What challenges did they face, and what advice do they have? Read on to find out.
Name: Erica Henning
Current position: Investigator I and MRI Head, Global Imaging Group, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research (NIBR)
Location: Cambridge, MA
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Post written by a guest blogger Ahmed Kablan, Postdoc at NIDDK.
This past eight months, I have had the privilege to work with more than 20 other fellows and the OITE staff to organize the 5th annual NIH Career Symposium. Serving on the planning committee was a valuable experience. Some of the key things that I learned by volunteering as a committee member are:
- The importance of teamwork and time management: In order to work well with your team it is crucial communicate clearly to avoid duplication of effort. My time management s
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Post written by a guest blogger Anne Kirchgessner, Career Counselor in OITE. In my role as a career counselor in the OITE Career Services Center, I often hear postdocs say something like “My mentor hasn’t done anything to help me get to the next step.” The sentiment is understandable. Your PhD advisor may have taken a more active role in your search for a postdoc position. Maybe your advisor made a call to get you your current position, or may have referred you to a colleague or collaborator. This sense of security using your PhD mentor’s contacts may fail when yo