Posts by Abha Chalpe, PhD
Top 6 Articles For PhDs To Learn How To Confidently Negotiate Starting Salary
Written by Abha Chalpe, Ph.D. 6 Articles PhDs Must Read To Learn How To Negotiate A Higher Starting Salary Photo by Freepik I was so close to the end of my job search. The company loved me at the interview and I felt confident. But then, the toughest part of…
7 Best Articles About Using LinkedIn For A Successful Job Search
Abha Chalpe, Ph.D. After my postdoc at Northwestern in Chicago, I had a job all lined up. I was excited and had already planned to live in downtown, Chicago. However, a small but important detail was yet to be resolved. My work visa needed to go through before I could…
7 Ways To Include Keywords In Your LinkedIn Profile
Written By: Abha J. Chalpe, Ph.D. Oh, what a journey it has been. I knew I wanted to leave the isolated academic laboratories I knew as a PhD student. But, I wasn’t sure how to reach the industrial sector. Did industry even want to employ PhDs like me? It wasn’t…
4 Ways Academia And Industry Differ For Research Scientists
Written by: Abha Chalpe, Ph.D. Scientists… the researchers, discoverers, and curious people who dig deeper until they find what they were looking for and then research why and how it got there. Sounds amazing, doesn’t it? As the old saying goes, ‘necessity is the mother of invention’. Scientists are therefore…