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Gainfully Employed: From Launching a Job Search to Navigating Negotiations
Sponsored by APS Women in Physiology and ASPET Women in Pharmacology Committees
Career Development Track

This workshop fulfills one of the aims of the APS Strategic Plan and the charges to the Women in Physiology Committee to distribute information to trainees and early career physiologists regarding strategies for career development and transitions to a successful career in science.  The workshop also allows the Women in Physiology Committee to collaborate with other similar-interest groups within FASEB, the ASPET Women in Pharmacology Committee.  APS will serve as the lead organization on this session.  Analysis of the past workshop audience suggestions and the Trainee Advisory Committee’s survey indicates strong interest in the topic of job search/interviews.  Therefore this career development symposium will address the needs of early career scientists who will soon transition into ‘new’ professional appointment.  The workshop will provide information regarding 1) launching a job search, particularly for a dual-career couple, 2) delivering a job talk: formal seminar vs. chalk-talk, 3) the art of interviewing, and 4) negotiation tips.  Each speaker has a significant amount of recent experience in their particular topic and each will give a 15 minute informative presentation.  The session will include mock sessions on interview and negotiation in which videotapes of someone interviewing for a faculty position and discussing negotiations on their salary and resources will be shown following the talks of the same topics.  The mock sessions will form the basis of an interactive exercise where the audience discuss and critique the taped interview and negotiation.  Two pairs of a junior faculty person and his/her respective chair will participate in the taped mock sessions and they will be present during the workshop.  The session complements the workshop on “Marketing yourself on paper for academic positions” proposed by the Trainee Advisory Committee for Experimental Biology 2008.  The symposium will be of interest to scientists of all stages of professional development seeking a position, from trainees to established investigators.