The young investigators' science blog
What do you associate with “sales”? Being interrupted from an important experiment by a sales rep who wants to present the newest type of eppi or petri dish to you when you just have no time at all?
I try to open your eyes to why sales can offer a very fulfilling and exciting career path.
Working on a very important topic in current times: disease outbreak control. We interviewd Kirstin Meier from the GIZ on finding a carreer outside the science world.
Are you wondering whether you should consider a job where you regularly go on business travel? Find out more in our slide show with Q&A session!
Is this job a perfect match? Our author, Klara, studied Molecular Biomedicine at different Universities across Germany. After her PhD at the Institute of Molecular Medicine in Bonn she went for an internship in the Inhouse Consulting Department of a major pharmaceutical company. To explore other strategy consulting opportunities she joined an external consultancy firm. Here, our former colleague explains how she ended up in … Continue reading Consulting – Curious minds with business sense wanted
“Studying biology should be considered a hobby”, that is what a speaker humorously mentioned at a job talk hosted by the Bonner Forum Biomedicine last year. The speaker, who had a PhD in biology and successfully worked in industry for two decades, did not intend to say that studying biology is easy, but she pointed out that there are simply too many students for too … Continue reading Pride and Prejudice – or: How to deal with the employment office
Well, probably we will be… brilliant but crazy (just kidding) scientists. At least that is what the statistics show. But we also have a good chance of exploring other options. According to Paula Stephan from Harvard, 48% of the proud PhD title holders stay in academia, 23% go to industry, 9% work for the government, 11% do something else (?), and 10 % do not … Continue reading What will we do after our PhD?!?