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Although it is true that some people use an early MBA as a launching pad, many others claim that the degree, without work experience behind it, only makes the job search more difficult.

"They can be very good computer scientists, but they will not be hired if they don’t fit in the company culture" of Google, says new employee Oliver Heckmann.

Sometimes we scientists get so carried away doing our best work, or presenting that work in the best possible light, that we forget to bathe (or maybe that is just me?).

"You have a lot to learn, but when you can argue the case of your patent application successfully to a patent examiner, it's great," says Sarah Thompson.

There are great opportunities in industry, as well as situations in which your career could languish.

"I used this event to get an idea of how academics should present their ideas to business groups--for example, the need to provide an exit strategy for investors so they can see where and when they will get their money back," says Jonathan Styles.

"It's easy to find things that work. But to produce them on a large scale and market [them], it's a whole new thing, and it requires a lot more expertise that maybe in-house researchers just don't have," says Hélène Chaisson, Vice-President of Research and Development, Codena.

If you stay in the lab, you can only be as innovative as yourself.

A telephone interview is
not an opportunity to be hired, it is an opportunity
not to be hired--a chance to be disqualified.

Could a "Fast Pitch Competition" Hold Lessons for Your Future Job Success?

We asked, they answered, and we wrote it down.

"The most important concept you have to remember is that technology doesn't mean you have a company." Says Roger Bernier, Vice-President of Foragen Technologies Management.

It is a successful formula for this target group.

Young scientific and technical entrepreneurs are not alone in the Netherlands.

Whitney B. Hill, who joined MVA in October as a research scientist, prepares and analyzes environmental samples for identification and characterization using Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM).

Business will not come to you; you have to go out and make it rain.

I've also learned that entrepreneurship is not about the pursuit of fast money; it's about achieving a long-sought personal goal.