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This year's survey of top employers in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries has a familiar winner but plenty of shifting among other places in the top 20. The leading companies highlight a consistent theme: the importance of strong basic science as the platform on which to build reputations and commercial success.

A busy manager can't be so shortsighted as to look for only smarts.

Academic drug discovery is taking on a whole new character now, with technology and new partnerships between academia and industry and disease institutes and the government.

“There are not only opportunities for scientists in R&D and operations, but also in areas such as marketing, sales, and business development. We are always looking for talent in all these sectors, and we have openings and candidates for these positions all throughout the year.”

Many scientists opt for a research career in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry, so why not kick-start the process by also doing a postdoc in industry? Industrial postdocs often provide higher salaries and greater access to resources than their academic counterparts. But how do you find out about available positions and whether they are a good fit for you? Will a position as a postdoctoral fellow provide you a foot in the door at a company? And what if you don't like it? Will an industrial postdoc cut you off from returning to academia?

Psychologists share tips for figuring out what's sapping your enthusiasm—and how to get it back.

I’ll take a good résumé or CV over a perfect one any day of the week because the good one can be done in a short time, allowing plenty of time for networking -- indisputably the single most important step in a job search -- whereas writing the perfect document could take you (and your CV or résumé) out of circulation for months.

How one man's career change helped him keep his self-respect, make a few bucks, and have a blast on the business side of science.

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A biotech job search can be frustrating, especially if you live away from the biotechnology 'hot spots.'

Here's what happens when you send in your C.V.

NASCAR is hiring mechanical engineers and aerodynamics scientists to shave milliseconds off lap times and push racecars to their limits.

Ups and downs continue during Scott Jackson's interview at ABC Technologies.

In implementing the recommendations of its Biomedical Research Workforce Working Group, NIH decides to play it safe.

The American Chemical Society boldly and insightfully examines what's wrong with graduate education—and how to fix it.

A report from the Australian government finds Aussie graduate students and postdocs, like their U.S. counterparts, frustrated by the job market.

To help him write his dissertation, computer scientist Fred Stutzman created an app that blocks online distractions.

The ACS report on graduate and postdoc training goes where NIH's workforce working group didn't, recommending limiting Ph.D. production among other bold measures.