Networking
Personal relationships and personal well-being help carve out your next career steps. The relationships around you can assist you in finding a job as well as shape your decisions. Find out more about how networking and maintaining that work-life balance is essential to having a successful career.
Networking
- Advanced Networking: Six Techniques for Maintaining Professional Momentum by Peter Fiske for ScienceCareers.org
- Networking on Your Doorstep by Phil Dee for Sciencecareers.org
- Lucky Accidents, Chance Encounters, and the Prepared Job Seeker by Peter Fiske for ScienceCareers.org
- Informational Interviewing: Getting Information You Can Use by David Bomzer for ScienceCareers.org
- Career Trends: Building Relationships- Mentoring, Collaborating, and Networking by ScienceCareers.org and AAAS
- Creating your networking map by the OITE Careers Blog for NIH Office of Intramural Training and Education
- Tooling Up: The Informational Interview by David Jensen for ScienceCareers.org
- Informational Interviewing 101 by Robin Wagner for The Chronicle of Higher Education
- 15 Tips from Keith Ferrazzi: Conference Commando by Keith Ferrazzi
- Alumni Spotlights interviews with a former BRET PhD student or post-doc
- “Polite Persistence” Advice on following up with a connection when there is no response on the first try
- Networking at Scientific Conferences Part 2 in Biocareers
- How to Get the Most Out of Scientific Conferences by Rick Reis
- An Introvert’s Guide to Getting the Most from a Conference by Dharmesh Shah
- 12 Ways to Get Outside Our Comfort Zone When Attending a Networking Event by Bob McIntosh
- The Conference Notebook: A tool to help you get more out of the professional conferences you attend by Amy Strage, PhD, San Jose University, for Tomorrow’s Professor
Personal Well-Being
- Mommy Postdoc, PhD by Heather Patisaul for The Scientist
- How Stereotypes Can Drive Women to Quit Science by Shankar Vedantam for NPR
- Take Time to Smell the Roses by Caroline Kane and Sue Shafer for ASCB