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Careers
How to develop in your current role
When promotion isn’t automatic, you need to take a proactive approach to your career
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Careers
Navigating a career in academia and beyond
If you are unsure of what to do next, you are not alone
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Article
Financial woes ail early-career scientists
PhD students and postdocs are struggling to make ends meet
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Careers
How to begin financial planning
Five ways that PhD students and postdocs can prepare for the future
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Careers
How to find a suitable PhD supervisor
Five tips for identifying who will give you the support you need
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Careers
Security versus employability
Safe isn’t better if it doesn’t allow you to develop professionally
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Opinion
Ewine van Dishoeck: ‘Take a steep trajectory early in your career’
The pioneering astrochemist on art, gathering strength and taking the leap into a new discipline
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Careers
Filling in industry skill gaps
There are plenty of ways to make yourself more employable before you graduate from the academic lab
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Careers
Quit while you’re ahead
Leaving a job can be the smart choice – whether you’re unhappy or not
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Careers
The benefits to mentors of mentoring
Mentoring a junior scientist offers plenty of benefits for you as well
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Careers
Job hunting in a recession
Persistence is needed, but there are still career opportunities for chemists
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Careers
How to prepare for Covid-era job interview questions
Think about the skills you developed during lockdown
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News
Mentorship ‘strongly predicts’ protégé success in the sciences
Researchers whose mentors later win science prizes are two- to four times more likely to go on to have ‘superstar’ careers
