/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ en-us derek-lowe@sbcglobal.net 2008-04-15T07:15:41-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/04/15/walk_around_some.php Not many chemists come into the drug industry knowing very much about biology. I certainly didn’t, not on the level that was needed. It’s not surprising, but it’s also not as much of a handicap as you’d think, at least... 73231@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ How To Get a Pharma Job 2008-04-15T07:15:41-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/01/23/making_the_adjustment_to_smallness.php I have a reader here in the Northeast with a question about taking on a new job that I thought would be of some general interest. She’s been in the industry for a few years now, working at a pretty... 73046@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ How To Get a Pharma Job 2008-01-23T08:38:46-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2007/09/30/if_not_this_what.php One of my readers, a PhD chemist, is thinking about a career change and is looking for some advice. Having been through a mass layoff earlier this year, I can sympathize. I did everything I could to avoid a career... 72724@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ How To Get a Pharma Job 2007-09-30T20:56:02-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2007/09/25/hey_graduates_negotiate_hard_you_hear_now.php An alert reader sends along this story from The Economist, on the price of talent in China versus the West. Talking about the steep rise in the stock of WuXi PharmaTech on the Chinese stock market, which is insane even... 72712@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ How To Get a Pharma Job 2007-09-25T20:42:38-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2007/08/23/_jobs_that_dont_exist.php The FASEB folks have collected a large amount of data on training and employment in the life sciences (start here), and see the discussions over here at the AAAS). Many of the conclusions are not going to surprise people, but... 72622@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ How To Get a Pharma Job 2007-08-23T07:25:27-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2007/08/17/more_on_interview_seminars.php Having had the chance recently to see a number of interview seminars (other than my own, for once!), I have a few more thoughts for aspiring job seekers. It turns out that many of these are things that high school... 72604@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ How To Get a Pharma Job 2007-08-17T05:44:21-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2007/07/08/starting_up_again.php I'm back! This entry comes from temporary quarters in Cambridge, which will be my home for about another six weeks. The second half of that period will find the rest of my family in here with me, but for now... 72475@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ How To Get a Pharma Job 2007-07-08T20:14:26-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2007/03/07/fish_nor_fowl.php The grad-school advice topic from the other day got me to thinking about another issue in that line. Everyone knows about how hot all the mixed chemistry-biology stuff is (and has been). Chemical biology, biological chemistry - call it what... 72105@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ How To Get a Pharma Job 2007-03-07T22:55:54-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2007/03/06/decisions_decisions.php I've had an e-mail from someone going off to grad school in chemistry. He wants to eventually do drug discovery work, and is wondering which way to go: I have it narrowed down to two departments. One is a large,... 72097@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Graduate School 2007-03-06T10:28:47-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2007/02/28/have_we_got_a_job_for_you.php Since I'm still on the job-hunting trail, after the events described here, I think I'd find it a bit therapeutic to complain about one part of the process that's a complete waste of time. Now, there are open positions that... 72085@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Closing Time 2007-02-28T20:49:43-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2006/12/07/are_you_experienced.php Here's a mighty topical question for some of my associate colleagues these days: what is it that people are looking for in a presentation from a MS-level candidate? Associates are expected, first and foremost, to make SAR analogs. If you... 70188@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ How To Get a Pharma Job 2006-12-07T07:03:38-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2006/11/30/the_other_side_of_the_table.php One of the comments to yesterday's post turned the topic around by asking me how I like to be interviewed. That's a fair question, and I'm going to resist a quick answer of "In as fawning a way as possible".... 69893@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ How To Get a Pharma Job 2006-11-30T09:26:38-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2006/11/29/bad_interviews.php My "How to Get A Pharma Job" category over on the right has taken on a whole new meaning these days, what with me (and all my co-workers) scrambling around for new positions. You run into all kinds of interviewing... 69849@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ How To Get a Pharma Job 2006-11-29T11:03:53-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2006/03/06/man_hands_on_misery_to_man.php Some comments here called my attention to a piece by Philip Greenspun, "Women in Science". That's not the best title, because his points aren't so much about the position of women in science, but of everyone. And a pretty damned... 52629@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ How To Get a Pharma Job 2006-03-06T21:23:32-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2006/01/31/heres_a_shovel_could_you_dig_yourself_in_some_more.php Talking about reaction-quiz job interviews the other day really seems to have brought out a lot of stories (check the comments to that post). I'm glad to hear that this kind of interrogation seems to be disappearing. I had more... 47617@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ How To Get a Pharma Job 2006-01-31T20:28:16-05:00