Jump Start Your Career in BioScience
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Book Description
If you're looking to learn more about your career options in the biosciences, this book is for you! This book is designed to provide you (or your advisees) with a basic understanding of the working world, how it functions, and how this information can translate into different career opportunities in the biological and biomedical sciences. It describes positions both at and away from the laboratory bench. It is intended for students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty, career counselors, and anyone else who is interested in learning more about the different types of careers in the biosciences. Topics addressed in this book include:
Descriptions of specific positions for scientists in various fields, specifically as they relate to particular types of work and/or organizations.
Categories of potential employers.
Hints on how to identify specific job opportunities.
Tips on how to get a scientifically and financially rewarding job.
A listing of additional resources (professional societies, publications, websites, and more).
From the Author
We scientists invest many, many years honing our scientific skills. It's very ironic, then, that many of us spend very little time and money in search of our ultimate endpoint - finding gainful and rewarding employment! After all our hard work, don't we owe it to ourselves to spend some time searching for (and finding) a satisfying career? I certainly think so!
I began writing this book during my first "real" job search. After each job-hunting escapade, I was greeted by colleagues saying, "Please tell us what you learned!" They, too, were ignorant of the working world! Obviously, my peers, like me, were looking for more information about the career opportunities that were available to them. I therefore wrote this book to contain the information that I wanted when I first started looking for a job. I thought, "If I need to know this information, others undoubtedly need it too."
I have since transitioned to an "alternative" career in the private sector, where I am now a project manager for a contract pharmaceutical organization. This was a career path I didn't even know existed when I was in graduate school! During the 3 years it took me to research this book, I have discovered an enormous number of career paths which I have shared with my readers. These career paths are ones in which a scientific background is useful or even required.
My book is designed to help my readers to think more globally about their career options. After all, my readers are scientists. They are inventive. They are creative. Why not apply these same traits to the management of a career? The results can be wonderful!
Like research, navigating in the working world is much easier once a person understands a few basics. My book won't find readers a job, but it will give them lots and lots of resources and examples! By the time my readers are finished with my book, I hope they will feel well-equipped and able to find a rewarding job. From what readers are already saying about the book, I think they will.
Jump Start Your Career in BioScience
Jump Start Your Career in BioScience,Chandra B. Louise,Peer Productions,0966179005,Biology,Biology (General),Career/Job,Careers - General,Careers / Job Opportunities,General,Life Sciences - Biology - General,Medical sciences,Professional Occupations,Science,Vocational guidance,Life sciences
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