Nowdays we are an independent Company but fully owned by a fortune 500 Company. We did however have formal mentorship programs locally from when we we...

I am going to try to break your questions up and then add some general comments about mentorship in industry. How often can I seek help from my mana...

Just talking with any non scientist is useful for practicing. My wife claims that she helped to train me. One example being answering probably when sh...

While being in between salary checks in one of my start up situations I did some IP work for a research group in one of the larger universities around...

If you have a little bit of extra energy you can also spend that to set a time that works well both for you and the recruiter. This can then buy you s...

Start-ups always have a lack of cash and need to be careful how they spend it. On the other hand if you have a leading R&D role you are probably t...

As Dave says research in industry is usually and should be directed towards a specific target. There are examples of pharma companies having research ...

The biggest problem that I have with this is that completing a PhD takes time and when you add at least one postdoc on top of that you are probably ta...

As I mentioned in another post I have received all my positions both in Science and outside from networking. I thought I would mention what type of co...

Although I didnt do a postdoc myself I would say that doing one successful postdoc shows that you can be productive without the support of your PhD su...

The biggest surprise to me was the amount of other factors than technical skills and knowledge that will actually determine your career. Technical ski...

I think that it is important to Point out that your linkedin page doesnt need to be perfect for it to work. It may work better if you put more effort ...

Also not a millenial. For me anything works as long as you are actually able to reach me and as I said my office phone is unlikely to accomplish that ...

For me this is mostly a question about probability. I dont actually mind if a recruiter calls me at my office phone but I dont have an assistant that ...

Although our company goal for retention of staff is a lot higher than what can be achieved if people leave after 2.5 years I can understand that you w...