Archive for the ‘Job Hunt’ Category
Stand up during a phone interview.
That is all the not-obvious advice I have to offer in this post of my Job Hunt series. Really.
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So why should you stand during the phone interview? Energy. When you are up, you are free to move about your room and your speech will flow better than if you were bottled up sitting in a chair. You might even use a headset so your hands are free to gesture (even though no one else can see you) because, again, it aids your flow. There’s more on the topic here.
I won’t belabor the next point because an endless amount has been written about interview preparation, but this is what I did that seemed to work well. Using two sheets of paper…
Ah, ’Tis the Season for Bigger, Better Things
The air has a new crispness to it, the leaves are swirling to the ground, and Vanderbilt’s football team is giving the home fans very little to cheer about. Fall is here, and if it’s your (anticipated) final year of graduate school, fall is when the search for a grown-up job begins. The amount of information out there on job hunting and interviewing and résumé writing is endless. After reading up on this subject for a few months, I think I can post some short articles focusing on what’s relevant to early-career scientists. Here is the first piece.
I. The Wisdom of Feldman (or, What is a core competency?)
Over chicken wings following his student’s PhD defense, Dr. Feldman shared his thoughts on breaking into the post-PhD world as a scientist. Read the rest of this entry »
