Career Catalyst

Career fairs are a great way to network, make first impressions, and both give and receive information between yourself and potential employers.

Learn a few ways to leverage your internship experience to reach your career goals.

Curriculum vitaes (CVs) should be an overview of your academic/professional career.

When it comes to landing one of the most prestigious research grants in the nation, your strategy will determine your success.

This workshop provided a toolkit to understand how to prepare for interview day, how to respond to common questions, and how to wow your interviewer(s)!

Learn about the wide array of careers and find the career that best suits your personality and life goals.

Find tips for creating an industry resume highlighting your most relevant experience and skill sets.

Max Kushner, PhD candidate in Tumor Biology, shares his insights after attending the 2018 GapSummit, a Global Biotech Revolution’s annual intergenerational leadership development conference.

The path to a successful career in consulting is highly unorthodox and indirect, which creates a demand for diversity of thought.

Georgetown Tumor Biology PhD candidate, Eric Berens, illuminates the process he underwent to achieve the NCI/HIH Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award (F99/K00 Grant).

Find tips and strategies for requesting strong letters of recommendation for graduate school.

Learn why it is valuable to respond when hearing you didn’t get the job you interviewed for, and see a template for how you can do so.

The job-hunting process can be a very grueling and frustrating experience; especially when it seems like your application and resume are not getting seriously considered. There might be a multitude of reasons and factors that you are not even getting interviews. Here are just a few:

GUPDA held the first postdoc-focused research symposium at Georgetown University. Main campus and medical center postdocs showcased their hard work through oral and poster presentations.

GUPDA held the first postdoc-focused research symposium at Georgetown University. Main campus and medical center postdocs showcased their hard work through oral and poster presentations.

Go beyond the template and learn a process by which you can develop a strong cover letter in a few easy steps.

Medical Physics and Health Physics are both health careers that deal with radiation. What’s the difference?

Dr. Nathan L. Vanderford provides tips to transition into diverse career paths for PhDs.

Negotiating your salary can be daunting. Learn tips and strategies on how to approach your employer that may help increase your pay!

Learn the ins-and-outs of networking!

As more and more PhD’s pursue careers outside of academia, science policy has emerged as a viable and popular career path for those with doctoral degrees. Many people think of science policy as working on Capitol Hill with Congress; however, science policy is a multi-faceted field with many entry points.

A powerful pitch can demonstrate how you are the right person for the career of your interest. Learn the FAB method of making a powerful pitch!

A career strategists details how to achieve a strong LinkedIn profile to wow recruiters!

This is a longer post, but it deserves the space it’ll take up! Last week, my office hosted the first ever “How to get a post-doc position.” Here are my takeaway points from the event.

Learn a simple framework to answer one of the most daunting interview questions “Tell Me about Yourself.”

Find answers to FAQs and helpful email templates for informational interviews.

Toby Beth Freedman, biotechnology recruiter, and esteemed author recently came to Georgetown to speak about the biotechnology field, and how to get your foot in the door. The entire process of looking for a job to accepting a position was covered in a jam-packed hour of detailed insider-information. Read about his tips to finding a job in biotechnology.

Policy means taking a step back from the nitty gritty. Getting a policy fellowship doesn’t require any prior policy experience. Fellowships are looking for scientists who appreciate the value of science for policy and policy for science and want to branch out from just science and engage in bigger issues.

How can I present my knowledge and skills as assets to an employer?

The linear career path into academia is no longer a reality, or necessarily even a desire, for many recent PhD graduates. What are other paths?

Learn how you can demonstrated strengths when asking an interviewer questions, and see some sample questions you can ask.

Personal statements should be a reflection of your academic skills, success, and goals.

When you start your job search, you may go on several interviews in a short period of time. If one gets back to you early on with an offer and you accept it, how do you respond when you later get another offer?