Best Industry Transition Articles For PhDs (February 15th, 2020)
In industry, it’s important for professionals and job candidates to maintain a strong knowledge of the business arena.
That’s why every week, Cheeky Scientist scours the Internet acquiring the best industry transition articles for PhDs – that way, you don’t have to!
Our two consultants independently search for the most informative articles in the categories of networking, CVs/resumes, interviews, transferable skills, academic blues, industry positions, and business acumen.
Then they vote on a top article for each category and a top overall article for the week.
And here are the results! This week’s best articles are…
Industry Transition Articles: Top Overall
Top Overall: 5 leadership skills that will help you with a promotion in 2020 – Shubika Bilkha
Networking
Top: Networking Made Easy: 5 Tricks for Making a Great First Impression – Atlanta Small Business Network
Lean Out (or A Simple Guide To Networking With Ease) – Helen Krug von Nidda
Using Networking Cards to Give Your Contacts a Tangible Way to Remember You – Katharine Hansen
Incorporating a Networking Mindset Into Your Sales Strategy – Adam Connors
CVs/Resumes
Top: 4 Ways To Craft A Cover Letter That Will Get You The Job – Ashley Stahl
Lies, odd email addresses and other things that should never go on a resumé – Olivia Bodwen
Cost Cutting Algorithms Are Making Your Job Search a Living Hell – Nick Keppler
Interviews
Top: 5 Interview Prep Tips to Help Ensure Your Good Candidates Aren’t Being Excluded for Bad Reasons – Lou Adler
The 4 Trick Questions In Every Job Interview And How To Answer Them – Chris Westfall
How to respond to ‘Do you have any questions for me?’ during the interview – Rachel Weingarten
Bad habits can ruin a great job interview – Mary Fox Luquette
Transferable Skills
Top: 5 leadership skills that will help you with a promotion in 2020 – Shubika Bilkha
Want To Get Hired? 4 Skills To Emphasize In Your Next Interview – Stephen Mugo Weru
How to Work with a Leader Who Doesn’t Care About Details – Liz Kislik
How Soft Skills Will Help You Land Your Dream Job – Charlie Fletcher
Academic Blues
Top: The Unmet Mental-Health Needs of Foreign Doctoral Students – Bhargavi Bharadwaj
Lessons for Aspiring STEM Grad Students – Pedro Márquez-Zacarías
People will not trust unkind science – Gail Cardew
Is becoming a physician-scientist worth sacrificing work-life balance? – Tim Keyes
Industry Positions
Top: Gender Parity in the Boardroom Won’t Happen on Its Own – Sharon Thorne, Dan Konigsburg
Interested In A Career In Project Management? Three Ways To Test Your Readiness – Veronica Thraen
Working in a large scientific organisation gave me transferable skills for business – Matthew Beckingham
94 Percent of Businesses Invest in Competitive Intelligence. Does Yours? – Jeff Goldman
Business Acumen
Top: 10 Steps to Creating a Data-Driven Culture – David Waller
Despite Calls to Lower Drug Prices, More than 600 Medications Saw Increases in January – Alex Keown
From Novartis, Bristol MS meds to new ADCs, here are 2020’s blockbuster drug launches – Angus Liu
Can smart city tech go global? – David Pringle
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Dr. Isaiah Hankel is the Founder and CEO of Cheeky Scientist. His articles, podcasts and trainings are consumed annually by millions of PhDs and other professionals in hundreds of different countries. He has helped PhDs transition into top companies like Amazon, Google, Apple, Intel, Dow Chemical, BASF, Merck, Genentech, Home Depot, Nestle, Hilton, SpaceX, Tesla, Syngenta, the CDC, UN and Ford Foundation.
Dr. Hankel has published 3X bestselling books and his latest book, The Power of a PhD, debuted on the Barnes & Noble bestseller list. His methods for getting PhDs hired have been featured in the Harvard Business Review, Nature, Forbes, The Guardian, Fast Company, Entrepreneur Magazine and Success Magazine.
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