A fifth-year PhD student asks—When I’m starting my job search, how do I prioritize all the different factors that matter to me? I’m worried if I am too picky, I’m not going to find anything. For example, what if I find a job that is really good professionally but isn’t located somewhere I want to…
A first-year PhD student asks—I am completely committed to finding a faculty position after finishing my Ph.D., and some of the faculty I’ve met so far have advised that the most important thing is for me to carve out a very specific scientific niche. How do I do that? Are there specific skills or…
A postdoc asks—When there are multiple required qualifications in a job posting, do you have to be a 100% fit for those qualifications? Can you still apply even if there are a few points that you do not meet?
A postdoc asks—I would appreciate tips and tricks for organizing our documents for all these applications. Do 100 applications turn into 100 separate folders? I sometimes feel that is what is necessary, but I frequently get lost in files. I want to be able to easily reference documents I’ve already…
A postdoc asks—I was looking at jobs on LinkedIn and I was really excited to apply for a synthetic biology role that seemed like a pretty perfect fit, but I saw that the posting is already 3 days old (and over 600 people have already applied). Is there any point in still sending in an application?
A graduate student asks—Should we have a separate skills section in the resume to tick off the key terms from the job posting or should we try to include all of that in the research experience?
