From the Archive: original post from Jan, 2012
Happy New Year! It is time for the annual tradition of making New Year’s resolutions. Often the theme of resolutions is to better oneself through eating better, exercising more or changing a habit that drives us crazy (this will be the year that I paste every gel into my notebook and stop using paper towels for my calculations!). While healthy bodies and well organized notebooks are great things, we encourage you to resolve to prioritize advancing your career. Do you need to make a decision about what to do after your training? Do you need to network more and/o
n the spirit of Halloween, today we are blogging about job search horror stories that have happened to OITE staffers. Can you match the following events to a person in the OITE??
1. On my first interview I was dressed in my finest. At dinner I had a plate of chicken served in a sauce. As I cut into my meal I splashed sauce all over my shirt! I cleaned myself off and continued the meal and conversation.
Job interviews can be both exciting and stressful. You impressed the employer enough to be a final candidate yet you know that the interview will determine whether or not you get the job. It is very likely that the first round of interviews will be done on the phone. Often thought to be used only for industry interviews, we are now seeing a large increase in the number of first round faculty interviews conducted by telephone.
For the final post of our conversations with NIH trainees about having a family during their training period we asked:
Do you have any advice for NIH trainees thinking about starting a family?
Their answers:
The second part of our series about having a family and being a trainee asks the question:
What were the challenges you faced?
So first, the good news...I finished my first triathlon this weekend! It was a slog, to be sure, but I finished, and that is what I was hoping to do.
The tri was not without incident, though...about halfway through the 12 mile bike loop, I got a flat on my bike. Argh! First time out - what luck.
The best part of it was that I had a spare tube - and no pump. Great! I rode on it until I found a race official, who didn't happen to have a pump either.