Career Development

For those who have sky high ambitions, read this book:

An astronauts guide to life on earth.

This is the biography of Chris Hadfield, with plenty good advice, not only for wanna-be astronauts. For full impact, watch the movie Gravity first, then read the book, and finish of with Chris’ version of Space oddity, sung in space :…[Read more]

Fail Better: an exhibition about heroic and instructive failures at the Science Gallery in Dublin https://dublin.sciencegallery.com/failbetter

“Fail fast and cheap. Fail often. Fail in a way that does not kill you” Seth Godin

Career transition: Chance favours the prepared mind

http://euroscientist.com/2013/12/career-transition-chance-favours-the-prepared-mind/

http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2014/jan/10/researchers-developing-transferable-skills

YEBN offers its members free entrance to the BCF Career event (http://www.academicexpo.nl) in Amsterdam 14th May 2014, the leading career fair for the highly educated in Life Sciences, Chemistry, Food & Pharma.
If you are a member of one of our national partners (http://www.yebn.eu/institutional-members) or an…[Read more]

Top scientist are leaving Germany due to unsecure working conditions.
Most of them go to US or Switzerland. Also working conditions in Austria, Belgium and Sweden seem to be better than in Germany.
http://www.spiegel.de/unispiegel/jobundberuf/spiegel-zu-braindrain-wissenschaftler-wandern-ab-a-955141.html# (article in German)

Free Thinkers – a new way to teach & learn:

http://www.wired.com/business/2013/10/free-thinkers/

Career conference in Dublin, Ireland http://www.careerzoo.ie/
This Saturday, 15th February

Leaving academia? Here is an interesting article how to sell yourself to new employers:
http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2014/jan/10/researchers-developing-transferable-skills

I came across a very interesting article about the academic labour market:

http://alexandreafonso.wordpress.com/2013/11/21/how-academia-resembles-a-drug-gang/

Unfortunately, its final summary only includes the US, Germany and UK
Do you know how things are in other European countries? I heard that Sweden can be quite attractive for foreign…[Read more]

Nice report from the Naturejobs Career Expo 2013:
How to get a job in Science Communication
see http://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/2013/09/25/how-to-get-a-job-in-science-communication?WT.ec_id=NATUREjobs-20131003

AstraZeneca Bioscience Sandwich Student placement.

see http://jobs.astrazeneca.com/jobs/details/l1rERMO%20BIO14-bioscience-sandwich-student-placement

Deadline: 11th October 2013!!!

They also have interesting offers for Postdocs and Master students