Life Sciences Careers

Click on the flower on the top left to return to this page. There is a short link to this page: http://tinyurl.com/lifescicareers !

To start your exploration:

• First, look at the pages of the CSC (Career Services Center) and the many offers for seminars and advice that they have.
• Then look at our pages here, which contain additional information for life sciences students.

Resources for all situations:

• How to write a CV for an application
• How to write an application letter for an internship or for graduate school
• Mastering Interviews for Internships and Graduate Schools (on the phone or in person)

Internship Resources:

• How to find an area of science that interests you, and a research group or internship program
• How to apply for an internship in the life sciences
• FAQs about first-year internships in the life sciences

Graduate School Resources:

• Applying to Graduate School in the Life Sciences- a step-by-step guide to the process, with supporting documents:
  
  • Interesting Graduate Programs in the life sciences
  • Graduate School Essays for US graduate schools
    • List of Verbs to use in a Graduate School Essay
    • List of Active Verbs structured by Levels of Abstraction
  • Additional resources:
    • A brochure on preparing for graduate school in the US, by the 'Leadership Alliance' association of American graduate schools
    • Cooperating with your referees for Graduate School Applications
  • A report on application experiences by a member of the BCCB class of 2004.
• Graduate Scholarships in the Life Sciences
• Equivalence of Jacobs Grades to British grades

Medical School Resources:

• A PDF document with the most important information, from the BCCB major website. Slightly outdated.
• Medical School as a Career Option: a more comprehensive version of the same document. Currently under construction.
• Practice MCATs

PhD Resources:

• Applying for a PhD position in the life sciences
• Mastering your PhD by Gosling and Noordam - an excellent book about how do to a PhD to which we have online access.

Job databases:

• Job databases (PhD positions and after) for positions in 
  • Germany: jobvector.de, science-jobs.de, and the list at http://www.gbm-online.de/jobboerse.html . 

On Science as a Career:

• Career options for life scientists
• "How to succeed in Science: a concise guide for young biomedical scientists." Two excellent articles (part 1, part 2) that briefly explain what a career in (academic) life science is like. A similar book, more in detail, is "Who wants to be a Scientist?" by Nancy Rothwell. See the books section.
• The Peoples Archive: the life stories of some of the great scientists

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