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  This website and others are filled with examples of the “soft skills” that aren’t taught in graduate school, but which are absolutely necessary for a job in industry. I’ve written about some of these in my blog, including communication…

  Many of my blog columns here describe the difficulties that some experience when they discover how different life is between the university and industry. I write about these things because I have a great passion for training young scientists and…

  The senior executive leaned forward before entrusting me with his secret of success. This was a seasoned President of a billion-dollar corporation–someone whose words should be taken seriously. We had been discussing the personal characteristics of his most successful…

(This is a classic oldie, published a decade or two ago in our column for Science. I hope you will enjoy it — DJ). As a recent interviewing process came to a close, the hiring manager prepared to extend an…

  I remember one of my first job searches and it proved much harder than I had imagined. I had an “interesting” (read: unfocused) blend of training in communications and science, and it was my belief that I could apply…

  Recently I was on a long flight, from one coast to the other, which gave me time to get acquainted with a new book: Think Like an Entrepreneur, Act Like a CEO. Author and career coach Beverly E. Jones…