Speak More than One Language? Here’s a Career Option for Bilingual Scientists

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Are you a scientist who’s fluent in at least two languages and have an understanding of medical/pharmaceutical terminology? If so, you could work as a medical translator for the pharma industry. A shortage of specialists in this area also ensures there’s plenty of work for experienced medical translators. Working with scientific publications, research studies, protocols, … Read more

Improving Your Scientific Communication Skills

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In his book ‘Five Stars,’ best-selling author Carmine Gallo highlights the one skill that will catapult your career from good to great – communication. Being a great communicator is what gets your ideas heard. As scientists we rely on our ideas to get us funding, jobs, promotions, and to essentially keep our work going. The … Read more

Struggling with your ‘what next?’ career question? Here’s a tool that can help

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Figuring out what I wanted to do after my academic career was quite simply one of the most challenging parts of my career transition. It was certainly the most time-consuming part as I attempted to piece together snippets of information about non-academic jobs that would help me understand what I would be good at, and … Read more