Tips for Life Science Professionals Considering Career Change Plus Events

Tips for Life Science Professionals Considering Career Change

If you are making changes in your career, such as, considering a different function, different industry sector or change in level, I suggest you look at your career profile as if seen through the lens of kadeidoscope. Your career profile includes skills, experience and personality attributes. If you want to redefine your profile, you can rearrange these elements for a new path. View the elements through kaleidoscope and recognize the richness of “you” that allows for different career paths.

Take the lesson learned from Stephen Covey to “sharpen the saw.” This includes:

• Keeping up with industry developments and, thereby, continuing to grow
• Learning new critically needed functional skills for one of the industry sectors. Hone your functional skills through study and practice
• Read broadly about industry and your industry niche-learn the right questions and how your profile provides answers
• Learn from the many speakers available through industry professional organizations in the Bay Area which you can find on my website at AudreysNetwork.com

Never forget the importance of networking

• Make effort to attend minimum of 2 industry events a month
• Make relationships with employees of companies of interest to you
• Connect with former colleagues who know your work at companies of interest
• Use Linked In but combine with face-to-face contacts to make real human connections
• Approach individuals who know professionals in positions at two levels above position of interest—can be neighbor, doctor, dentist as well as other industry professionals
• Develop a mentor relationship for access to unbiased advice
• Join an industry organization that specializes in your specialty or market sector
• Remember that 90% of jobs are not posted

I have provided a Bibliograhpy Sept. 2015 of career ecosystem resources as well as books helpful in career transitions. Right click on biography to download the list.

Upcoming Bay Area Life Science Events

• Bio2Device Group, Tuesday Morning, Oct. 6, 2015, Topic: “Redeveloping Old Antibiiotics for Use: European Initiative;” Speaker: Ursula Theuretzbacher, Ph. D., Founder and Principal, Center for Anti-Infective Agents
• ShareVault Webinar, Tuesday Oct. 6, 2015; Event: “What’s Hot & What’s Not in Immuno-Oncology Licensing;” Panelists: Linda Pullan, Ph.D | Pullan Consulting; Jeff Bockman, Ph.D | Defined Health; Ferran Prat, Ph.D | MD Anderson; Axel Hoos, MD, Ph.D | GlaxoSmithKline; Nate Sanburn, MS | Eli Lilly & Company
• xTalks Free Webinar, Wednesday Morning, Oct. 7, 2015; Topic: “Building the Evidence Generation Roadmap: The Role of Real World Data in Drug Development;” Speaker: Alex Exuzides, PhD, Director, Health Economics & Epidemiology, ICON Commercialisation & Outcomes
• Clinovo, Friday Evening, Oct. 8, 2015; Topic: eClinical Integration: Challenges and Best Practices
• HBA, Thursday Evening, Oct. 8, 2015; Topic: “Courage and Leadership Discussion;” Speakers: Jennifer Cook, EU Head, Roche Pharmaceuticals. and Wendy White, senior VP at Dohmen Life Sciences
• CBA Annual Conference, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015; Conference Topic: “Future of the Life Science Industry – Innovation and Opportunities;” Confirmed Speakers: Dr. Peter Yu, ASCO President – Keynote speaker; Dr. Lennart Mucke, Director of the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease; Dr. Tim Hoey, Sr. Vice President from OncoMed ; Dr. Radoje (Rade) Drmanac, CSO at Complete Genomics; Dr. Jacqueline Law, Senior Director at Genentech; Dr. Janet Xiao, Partner at Morrison Foerster; Dr. Scott Liu, CEO at Henlius Biotech; Dr. Hiromitsu Nakauchi, Professor of Genetics at Stanford; Dr. Mary Vincent, Co-founder & CTO, SK Telecom Americas Innopartners, Lifetime MD; Dr. Xi Zhao-Wilson, CEO at BioMarker Pharmaceuticals; Dr. Licen Xu, Senior Director, Thermo Fisher Scientific; Dr. Ruhong Jiang, CEO of Applied Stem Cell

You can download details for the above events in a complete list of upcoming events and jobs by right clicking on Audreys Picks Oct. 4, 2015 and JobsThatCrossedMyDeskThroughOct. 4, 2015.

Note that I am not able to send my blog and lists directly to you as I did for over 10 years. You can access them by reading my weekly blog and downloading my lists at https://audreysnetwork.wordpress.com/. You can also access via my website at www.audreysnetwork.com.

Audrey