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CAREER DEVELOPMENT TOOLBOX

The following links are to selected articles, webcasts and e-briefings on career development and non-academic career options for graduate students and postdocs. They are taken from Science's Next Wave, New York Academy of Sciences, and other sources. Some of the articles from Next Wave may require a subscription, which is supported by the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs for UMDNJ postdocs and graduate students. Speaking of Next Wave, a good place to start is Next Wave's Postdoc Career Toolkit. Another recently developed site is the National Postdoctoral Association Toolkit.

Please contact the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs if you know of additional resources or if any of the links are broken or not useful.

General Skills Writing Skills Resumes and Curriculum Vitae Interviewing Tips Grant Writing Non-Academic Careers Technical Writing Careers

GENERAL SKILLS

• OPA Professional Information Page
  
• FASEB Individual Development Plan
  
• Lab Management: Making the Right Moves - HHMI
  
• Networking Scenarios (part 2)
  
• The Seven Laws of Networking
  
• Bioethics Resources on the Web - NIH
  

WRITING SKILLS

• Writing Skills - Publications
  
• Writing Your First Paper (Part 2)
  
• Purdue's On-Line Writing Lab, includes ESL
  

WRITING RESUMES AND CURRICULUM VITAE

• Resume Writing
  
• Writing a Curriculum Vitae (U. Virginia)
  
• Writing a Curriculum Vitae (U. Montana)
  

INTERVIEWING TIPS

• Interviewing Skills for Scientists - webcast
  
• Interviewing Beyond the Ivory Tower: NYAS e-briefing
  
• Interviewing Skills
  
• Interview Skill for the Job Hungry
  
• Interviews That Went Wacky
  
• Academic Interviews: the good and the bad
  
• Non-academic Job Interviews: the good and the bad
  
• Managing First Impressions
  
• Managing Weaknesses
  
• Interview Problems
  
• Interviewing style
  
• Seven Attributes of a Winning Hire
  
• Tell me about yourself
  
• Survival Skills
  
• Virtual Career Coach
  

GRANT WRITING SKILLS

• Getting an NIH RO1 - The Toolkit
  
• Grant Application Tips - Time Management
  
• Grant Writing Skills
  
• Writing a Research Plan
  
• How Not to Kill a Grant Application
  

NON-ACADEMIC CAREERS

General Information

• Career Transitions (excellent listings, description & resources)
  
• Life Beyond the Bench
  
• Non-academic Careers Index
  
• Books, articles and listings of career options
  

  Administration, Marketing & Consulting

• Project Management I
  
• Project Management II
  
• Consider Consulting
  
• Consider Marketing
  
• Science Administration
  

  Science Policy

• Science Policy - An Interview With Kathie Olsen
  
• Communicating Science Policy
  
• Science Policy at the National Academies
  

  Industry
  

• Regulatory Affairs
  
• Academia or Industry: Making a Conscious Decision
  
• Academia or Industry: Where Would I fit in
  
• From Academia to Industry
  
• Finding the Start-up Companies
  
• Drug Discovery and Development
  

  Technical Writing

• Technical Writing vs. Journalism
  
• Medical Writing
  
• Medical Writing
  
• Technical & Marketing Writing
  
• Science Writing IV