Albert Chen, an MD/PhD student at the University of Michigan designed the ACE plan. ACE is short for Active Career Exploration. According the Chen and colleagues within their four-part series on Science Careers, “ACE is your protocol for career experimentation, a logical progression of steps designed to overcome common barriers and give visible results after just 10 hours.”
Just 10 hours?
To be clear, the authors note that this means 10 hours within one month.
Submitted By: Amanda Dumsch
Submitted By: Amanda Dumsch
Thank you to all who voted! According to the poll, the career path you wanted to see highlighted was Bioinformatics. The second runner up was Education and Outreach, so we will be highlighting that field next in the Career Options Series.
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Post written by Brad Fackler, MBA When you have primarily worked in an academic setting, any other work path can seem like a confusing and scary venture. Many scientists consider career options in industry; however they often worry about what this transition will be like. Here are the top ten myths I often hear about an industry career in science. x
1. I will have my project “yanked away.”
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Recently a few trainees have inquired about ResearchGate, so we decided to take a further look at this site. It was founded in 2008 by two physicians who discovered that collaborating with a friend or colleague (especially one across the world) was no easy task. They created this website with the intent of helping make scientific progress happen faster.
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Name: Anna Burkart Sadusky, PhD
Job Title & Company: Staff Scientist, Omeros Corporation
Location: Seattle, WA
How long you’ve been in your current job: Over two years
Postdoc Advisor, IC: Jurrien Dean, MD; NIDDK, Development Biology Lab
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Submitted By: Amanda Dumsch
Have you drafted a career plan? Do you know if you have the required skills for your dream job? Figuring out the next step in your career and how to prepare for it can be stressful. But developing a plan, early on in your career, will help guide you through this process of identifying and achieving your career goals. This year, the OITE will be dedicating its blog to help you develop a Career Success Plan, focusing on a variety of core competencies that are critical for your career development, the first being career exploration and planning.
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Here at OITE, our continued resolution is to help trainees become skilled in a variety of core competencies. We view these four competencies as vital to your career development.
They include:
1. Career Exploration and Planning
2. Communicating
3. Teaching and Mentoring
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2013 is quickly coming to a close and the approach of a new year can be a great time to reflect – not only on the past year, but also on what you hope to accomplish in the coming year. Inspired by year in review montages we have already begun seeing, we decided to take time to reflect on this year as well, specifically on some of the best career resources at one’s fingertips in 2013. This is not an exhaustive list, nor is it in rank order. As always, we would love to hear your input – please share your very own “Best of 2013” resources in the comments. 1.
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Federal jobs, positions where you are an employee of the government, are all listed at USAjobs.gov. This website is a one-stop shop for all positions across the entire US government. There are other opportunities to work with the government, one of the largest being a contractor, which we will talk about more in Part Two.
USAjobs has a reputation of being hard to search, but it is not that bad. Take some time to familiarize yourself with the site and find some keywords and job titles that work for you.
Some Job Search Tips:
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Name: Benjamin Porter, PhD
Job Title & Company: Communications Manager, Office of Communications; The University of Texas at Dallas
Location: Dallas, Texas
How long you’ve been in your current job: 3 months
Postdoc Advisor, IC and subject: Alan Koretsky, NINDS, Behavioral fMRI