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Peer Networks For Historically Under-Represented Groups in STEM
Importance of Peer Networks Despite progress towards gender and racial parity in the sciences, it can still be tough navigating a STEM education and career when you belong to a historically underrepresented group. Fortunately, surrounding yourself with a strong...
How to find a STEM mentor
Regardless of where you are on the STEM career ladder, you’re never too old or too senior for a mentor! A good mentor can guide you into new professional fields, and increase your chances of landing your dream job or promotion. Mentors can act as a “sounding board”...
Looking for Success as a Recruiter? Develop your Personal Brand
Developing and promoting your personal brand isn’t only an activity for job seekers. It’s an important tool to distinguish yourself after finding employment: even if you’re happy in your current role, a strong personal brand will help make your job more fulfilling. As...
Right Size, Right Fit
Want job satisfaction? Look for a company that matches your size preferences Do you belong in a sprawling corporate campus or in a small loft with a dog snoozing on the rug? Or maybe the open-plan wing of a tech hub? Science grads searching for jobs in industry often...
Dream Job or Dream Boss? Choosing the Best Manager
You’ve landed the biotech job of your dreams: ideal location, great compensation package, the perfect match between your qualifications and the job description. What’s the catch? Well, reporting to a bad boss can turn a dream job into a nightmare you dread each...
Strategic Volunteering Could be the Key to Your Next Bio Job!
Are you considering a career change, or preparing to hunt for your first biotech job? Sometimes you might worry that your education and previous work experience isn’t enough to land your dream position. Perhaps the positions you seek are competitive, or you’re missing...
The Most Important Tool for Landing a Biotech Job? Your Personal Brand
Searching for your first biotech job? Much of the career advice for aspiring scientists focuses on creating and polishing tangible documents: CV, cover letters and a LinkedIn profile. Less discussed, but perhaps more important than anything else when it comes to job...
Networking Tips and Tricks for Scientists
As the number of COVID-19 cases drop and social distancing measurements relax, in-person networking events will start returning. For many scientists and science students, their understanding of ‘networking’ is at best a foreign concept with no applicability to their...
Meet the Recruiters. Sandra and Mike.
In the second of our Meet the Recruiter series of blog posts, we’d like to introduce Mike Cordaro and Sandra Tramontozzi, two seasoned Recruiting Partners who have played a large role in building out Sci.bio’s business development and contingency recruiting team. Mike...