Job Hunting in Industry: Interviewing for Research Jobs in Industry

The LBNL Career Pathways Office provides professional development to Berkeley Lab's early career researchers and Postdocs.

LBNL Career Pathways Office

Improve your interview skills, learn comprehensive negotiation tactics, and discover how to navigate through difficult interview questions.

There will be two breakout room activities during the seminar. Participants will be divided into groups of 4, and there will be 4 &quot;roles&quot; in the activity: Interviewer, Interviewee, and 2 individuals to provide feedback. Seminar Outline:<ul><li>Lecture </li><li>Breakout room activity (5 minutes)</li><li>Lecture</li><li>Breakout room activity (10-15 minutes)</li><li>Q &amp; A</li></ul>

In this workshop, we will share frameworks that will help you structure your responses to the most common questions asked in industry interviews. You will take away tips for successful phone interviews, site interviews and industry job talks. Finally, you will gain specific strategies for addressing difficult interview questions and awkward interview situations.<ul></ul>

About the speaker:Bill Lindstaedt, M.S., is a UCSF administrator and career counselor specializing in career development issues for doctoral level trainees in the sciences. At UCSF, he manages a group of offices known as Career Advancement, International and Postdoctoral Services (CAIPS). In addition to his leadership responsibilities, his career advising work focuses on helping PhD-level research scientists move into rewarding post-training careers. Bill is a co-author of Science Magazine's myIDP, a free career development tool designed to help research scientists take charge of their careers. myIDP has been used by more than 200,000 scientists and is recommended by dozens of graduate and postdoc programs around the country.

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