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BCF Career event – Registration deadline 6th May!

http://www.bcfcareerevent.nl/

To get free entrance, sign up for this group and reply to this post.

If you are a member of one of our national partners or an active member of our task groups, you should have already received the code.

How to build relationships/your network

Building relationships for success in science – The Ben Franklin effect

Are you interested in starting your own business? The Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs can help you gain valuable experience through a stay with an established entrepreneur in another Erasmus country.
http://www.erasmus-entrepreneurs.eu

How to leave academia/ change your career

Naturejobs published a helpful blog series on how to prepare a job…[Read more]

If you plan to stay in academia, this advice for interview preparation might be useful:
http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2014/mar/06/universities-careers-tricky-academic-interviews-questions

Some interesting advice on how to keep sane during your PhD
http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2014/mar/25/studying-phd-dont-suffer-in-silence-seek-support

Creativity in research – a guide for postgraduates

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]

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]