It’s June! That means we are half way through the year and half way through our career development calendar that we posted in January. If you have been following the calendar, you have met with your PI to discuss you career aspirations, talked with a career counselor, created a networking map, learned
If you attended the 5th Annual NIH Career Symposium last Friday, you heard about how many professionals in a wide variety of industries got their job. You probably heard more than a few panelists say they got their job by “luck.” However, if you listened to their whole story, you would have realized that they made their own luck. What you did not hear was a panelist say, “I worked in the lab all the time. One day, this person that I had never seen before came into the lab and said, ‘Hey, you want this job?’”