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Careers Away From the Bench & Managing Your Relationship with Your Supervisor
On June 25, 2010, we held two events at the University of Missouri: Careers Away From the Bench and Managing Your Relationship with Your Supervisor.
Resources
- Careers Away from the Bench handout (PDF)
- Careers Away from the Bench slides (PDF)
- Managing Your Relationship with Your Supervisor slides
- Managing Your Relationship with Your Supervisor case studies
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Managing Your Relationship with Your Supervisor
- Butting Heads: Conflict Resolution for Postdocs, Part I & Part II
- What To Do When Your Adviser Goes Too Far, Part I & Part II
- A Career Development Plan for Postdocs
- Dysfunctional Advisee-Adviser Relationships: Methods for Negotiating Beyond Conflict
- The Ethics of Authorship: An Ombudspersons Perspective
- Career Blocker: Bad Advisors
- The PhD-Doctor: What (Not) to Expect From Your Supervisor
- Knowing When to Break Free from Your PI By Career Doctor
- Your PhD Boss: Adversary or Super-Adviser? Part I & Part II
Other Resources
- National Postdoctoral Association Core Competencies
- Great Group Compact between Postdoctoral Appointees and Their Mentors
- FASEB IDP
- FASEB Annual Review
- Chicago Guide to Your Career in Science: A Toolkit for Students and Postdocs by Victor A. Bloomfield and Esam E. El-Fakahany
- HHMIs Making the Right Moves
Event Summary
Careers Away From the Bench
Could you be missing out on an exciting and rewarding career outside of academic or industrial research? Increasingly, Ph.D.-level scientists are becoming aware of other career opportunities beyond bench research. This workshop considered what a career path in these so-called "nontraditional" areas might look like. We discussed the types of alternative careers available, parlaying your current skills and values into a new area, ways to research career options, and developing needed skills.
Managing Your Relationship with Your Supervisor
In this presentation, we presented strategies for grad students and postdocs to use in order to best manage their relationships with their supervisors. This included advice on choosing a postdoc position, establishing goals and expectations with your adviser, day-to-day communication techniques, and what to do when problems arise. The session concluded with a discussion of case studies based on questions posted on the Science Careers Forum.
Questions? E-mail outreach@sciencecareers.org
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