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Thanks to Biobuzz for their great article on our web application Flamingo that will help academic scientists get a leg up on their first real job. Check it out!

New Software Sets Academic Ph.D.’s Up for a Successful Transition into Industry Careers · BioBuzz New Software Sets Academic Ph.D.’s Up for a Successful Transition into Industry Careers

Here's our last article on taking the mystery out of getting your first job. Today we look at the interview process and how to prepare so that you can get a leg up on your first job.

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in today's article we discuss the SciPhD approach of a targeted resume that provides an efficient method to jump start your professional career.

What the Heck is a Targeted Resume? One fairly common approach to applying for jobs is to “spam” your resume out to dozens of companies, recruiters and job boards on the hopes that at least one or more of them will respond with a request for an interview. This approach can work but has a significant drawback.

In today's article we look at the power of experience statements in demonstrating how you are qualified for a job.

Why Being a Technical Expert Isn’t Enough! You’ve worked hard to develop your scientific knowledge. You’ve written your thesis, published papers, given countless presentations, and are considered an expert in your area.

In our second article on Taking the Mystery Out of Finding Your First Job we look at the kinds of career choices you have, and how to begin to analyze the job ad to determine if you're qualified.

Finding Analyzing a Job Ad You have spent years learning and honing your scientific knowledge to become a subject matter expert in your chosen area. You’ve demonstrated that expertise to your peers through publications and presentations to others in your field.

This week we'll look at the process of finding and landing a job, and how our web application Flamingo will help you get a leg up on your career.

Take the Mystery Out of Finding and Landing Your First Job As scientists, you have spent the last five, ten or more years focused on developing carefully formed hypotheses, sound experimental approaches, expert ex*****on of the research, insightful analysis. and sharing of the results with others.

In our final article of our six week series, we look at how to negotiate your total compensation to turn What Are You Worth into a true reality!

Day 5: What Are You Worth- What Else Can We Negotiate Besides Base Salary? Continuing our compensation discussion from our Day 4 article, what other things can we negotiate besides base salary? Situation: Let us take the case that you have a pending job offer with a base pay of 105K. When you did your financial analysis of your spending and savings goals, you came up about

In today's article, co-founder Larry Petcovic examines the art of negotiating your total compensation.

Day 4:What Am I Worth- Salary Negotiations Interview Questions “What are your salary expectations?” is the interview question that you should expect and have a prepared response ready to present. For help in preparing that response, see Day 2 of this article series on What Are You Worth.

In the third article in our series on "What Are You Worth", we look at total compensation and the opportunities available to you if you play your cards right.

Day 3: What Are You Worth- Case Study Answering ”what am I worth?” in the simplest form is to focus on the salary you bring home with each paycheck. Then we can add some complexity with the value of benefits that are provided by the company.

In our second article on "What Am I Worth", SciPhD co-founder Larry Petcovic addresses some of the most asked questions from our students during our "Get A Job Bootcamp" webinar program.

Day 2: What are you Worth,” Questions and Answers With Our Students These are actual student questions about salary and compensation that we received during our "Get A Job Bootcamp" webinar programs. What if they ask about your current salary? Answer: The salary history question is quickly disappearing from most job applications, especially for entry level profes

In this week's series we will examine what you can do to maximize your worth when competing for your first job.

Day 1: What Am I Worth? What am I worth? At SciPhD we have been doing workshops for over 9 years and we always ask, “What are your major concerns in leaving academia and transitioning to business (which we define as everything non-academic).” The one answer we seldom get from new PhDs and Postdocs is the simple questio...