Industry Research Seminar
Bill Lindstaedt, MS
Interviewing for a job requires candidates to concisely and effectively communicate their fit, while negotiating an offer is often a new and unfamiliar experience for candidates coming from academia. This workshop covers interview and negotiating basics to ensure that you align your unique talents with the skills and experience companies seek, and that you can smoothly and successfully negotiate your job offer.
After attending this 90-minute skill-building workshop, you'll leave with a set of frameworks that will help you respond effectively to the most common questions asked of PhD-level candidates when they interview for positions in industry, government, and non-profit settings. You'll improve your ability to respond to opening and closing interview scenarios, questions about your interpersonal and teamwork skills, and tough and awkward questions.
Additionally, you’ll learn how to respond to these difficult questions that relate to negotiating your offer:
- What are your salary requirements?
- What components of the job offer are negotiable, such as salary, vacation, bonuses, stock, moving expenses?
- How do you ask for more salary when the offer is already doubling your current postdoc or student salary?
- What do the stock options and vesting schedule mean? Should you ask for more?
The principles in this workshop are applicable for jobs in biotech and pharma, as well as many other types of non-faculty roles such as those in government, nonprofit, and more.
About the Speaker
Bill Lindstaedt has been helping scientists and engineers launch successful careers for 30 years. From 2001-2023, he supported the career development needs of PhD students, postdocs and their faculty mentors at UCSF. In his career counseling practice, he has developed particular expertise working with biomedical scientists as they transition from academic positions to careers in the biotech/pharma sector. While at UCSF, Bill co-authored Science's "myIDP", a web-based career development tool which has been used by more that 300,000 scientists and is recommended by dozens of graduate and postdoctoral programs around the country. Recently retired from UCSF, he now serves as co-Investigator on an NIH-funded initiative to build STEM PhD professional development resources across institutions. Additionally, he serves as a contracted career consultant with the Academic Programs Office at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and with Emory University's Office of Postdoctoral Education.
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Offered by Gladstone’s Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Education and Research Development Affairs, the Industry Research Seminar is designed to help postdoctoral scholars, graduate students, and scientific staff with the skills and resources to successfully transition into an industry position.
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