This is a fairly interesting video. Thank goodness the producers decided that drawings would be better than those horrifying animations.
More to come on the policy recommendations.
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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Well worth watching, even if you're not in an academic lab. I think we all remember grad school.
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting this. As an MS student I have numerous near miss stories yet not one story about receiving any type of official or un-official training.
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