Wednesday, September 7, 2011
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1. HELPING CHEMISTS FIND JOBS IN A TOUGH MARKET. 2. TOWARDS A QUANTITATIVE UNDERSTANDING OF THE QUALITY OF THE CHEMISTRY JOB MARKET.
What's the job market like for chemists? Dude -- it's always bad.*
How bad is it? How the heck should I know? Quantifying the chemistry job market is what this blog is about. That, and helping chemists find jobs.
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(*For the literal-minded, this is a joke. Mostly.)
LOL! Yes, my dream profile indeed.
ReplyDeleteI'm not on LinkedIn but my views would probably be "someone who wants to sell you something" repeated many times.
ReplyDeleteThe Version from Hell:
ReplyDeleteYour old research advisor who leaves a voice mail about irreproducibility of your thesis procedures
Dick Cheney
The IRS
That psycho who you once said "hi" to and thinks that you two were meant to be together forever and that no else is good enough for you
UI, John:
ReplyDeleteYeah, a couple of days ago, mine was "Anonymous LinkedIn User" 3X, a not-very-savvy recruiter and the annoying postdoc from grad school I didn't like very much.
So, CJ, you're only a slight step above John's version of LinkedIn views from Hell. At least Dick Cheney and the IRS weren't looking at you.
ReplyDeleteSmall blessings, for sure. :)
ReplyDelete@CJ, John, UI - I recall an amusing interaction from a few months back with a supervisor. He decided it was AOK to go snooping on his past employees' profiles with his settings turned to "anonymous profile info," which he assumed meant he was roughly invisible to the rest of LinkedIn.
ReplyDeleteSad to say, only a few people in the world come up in your "Who's Viewed Me?" list as "Pharma Executive from (Exact Location you Used to Work)" (!!!)
Stealth mode = fail.