Career development

Most people want to see a career path stretching in front them. 

The Industries offer many career opportunities for progression and change and a variety of entry points for the professionally qualified scientist. Some examples of these are listed below. 

In larger companies many of these disciplines still exist as separate departments or functions though increasingly aligned with individual business units. In smaller companies this is not possible and several of these jobs or responsibilities will often be rolled together under one manager, or outsourced to another company or consultant. As an example, in a smaller company it is unlikely that an individual will be employed to deal solely with the intellectual property issues of patents, copyright etc. 

There are several questions that a Manager might ask of individuals who are at a turning point in their careers, to pose to themselves relating to the science versus the management pathway dilemma, [A-21] 

Therefore, the performance management can help individuals to seek answers to questions on their career aspirations. Staff can be helped to think about alternatives for which they may be suited and thus their horizons broadened. The data from these discussions should always be logged for future reference. 

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The authors thank Ms. Sarah Shema for proof reading of the manuscript. This work was supported by grants to A.S. from the National Institutes of Health, NEDDK (NIH DK066336-01) and a Career Development Award from the American Diabetes Association. 

Encouragement of employees to take on responsibility more quickly for their own career development. 

Showing the importance of mentoring in career development in organizations today. 

Peer mentoring appears to be very advantageous for individuals. Kram and Isabella (1985) confirmed the importance of peer relationships for psychosocial and career development across all stages of an individual s career. They found that through peer relationships, individuals ... 

In this mentoring model, individuals are asked to take on the responsibility for their own career development with the help of a range of formal and informal advisory relationships that they find and foster for themselves. The following quotation from Kerka (1998) summarizes the trends and issues facing mentoring in a time of organizational uncertainty ... 

Mentees who receive higher salaries and enhanced career development (Chao et ah, 1992), and greater sponsoring, coaching, protection and exposure as well as more challenging assignments. 

Kram, K. and Isabella, L. (1985). Mentoring alternatives the role of peer relationships in career development. Acad. Man. ]., 28, 110-32. 

Initiating career development themselves and frequently wishing to participate in learning, training and development opportunities. 

Filling out a self-assessment questionnaire such as the Myers-Briggs-Type Indicator. This personality inventory provides insights into a person s Jimgian type, which has been found to be a useful basis for purposes such as self-development, career development and career counselling. 

Presidential Young Investigator awards Solicited project grants Career development awards Unsolicited project grants Research excellence awards ... 

This work has been supported in part by grants from the NIH (GM-30580), the Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society, and the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Scientific Computing. RML is the recipient of a NIH Research Career Development Award. 

Born in 1965 in Utrecht, the Netherlands, Marjolein van der Meulen received her Bachelors degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987. Thereafter, she received her MS (1989) and PhD (1993) from Stanford University. She spent three years as a biomedical engineer at the Rehabilitation R D Center of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Palo Alto, CA. In 1996, Marjolein joined the faculty of Cornell University as an Assistant Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. She is also an Assistant Scientist at the Hospital for Special Surgery, New York. She received a FIRST Award from the National Institutes of Health in 1995 and a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation in 1999. Her scientific interests include skeletal mechanobiology and bone structural behavior. 

These investigations were supported by Grants CA 26651 and CA 21951 awarded by the National Cancer Institute, DHHS, Research Career Development Award ES 00033 awarded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, DHHS, and the Ontario Cancer Research and Treatment Foundation. The collaboration of John S. Wlshnok and Kwanghee K. Park are gratefully acknowledged. 

The graduate students and postdoctoral research associates, all of whom have the author s deepest thanks, are cited in the references. Special thanks are due to Dr. M. L. H. Green and his research group for the work on molecular intercalation. The generosity of funding from the National Science Foundation is gratefully acknowledged. The author is a Sloan Foundation Research Fellow and the recipient of a Research Career Development Award of the National Institute of Health. 

This research was supported under NSF Grant CPE-8009436 and under the MIT J.R. Mares career development professorship Grant. 

Bob Tipson made contributions to carbohydrate chemistry during more than six decades and exerted a far-reaching influence on the published literature in the field. Although he was born and educated in England, his subsequent career developed in North America. He was associated wnth Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry since its inception in 1945 and served in an editorial capacity with the series until his death on July 13, 1991, near his home in Kensington, Maryland. 

We are deeply indebted to D. Arigoni and J. D. Dunitz (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, Zurich) for stimulating and inspiring discussions. We thank Edna Gati, Jan van Mil, Fred Wireko, Linda J. W. Shimon, Felix Frolow, and Marianne Idelson, who performed many of the experiments described in this work. We owe thanks to the U.S./Israel Binational Foundation, Jerusalem The Israel Academy of Sciences the Volkswagen Stiftung and the Petroleum Fund administered by the American Chemical Society for financial support of our work. One of us (L. A.) is incumbent of the Helena Rubinstein Career Development Chair. 

Excerpt IIC is from the REP for the NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award in Chemistry (CAREER), a prestigious award offered by the NSF to exceptional junior faculty. In the rest of this module, we use excerpts from successful CAREER proposals to illustrate effective proposal-writing techniques and to apply the read-analyze-write approach to writing hence, it is important that you review the REP that motivated these proposals. (Note CAREER proposals require authors to describe, in what the NSF calls a Career-Development Plan, both research and educational activities. In this textbook, we focus almost exclusively on the research activities proposed by the CAREER authors.)... 

Excerpt 11C (adapted from NSF Program Solicitation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program. Proposals for Fiscal Years 2003,2004, and 2005. http //www.nsf.gov/ pubs/2002/nsf02111/nsf02111.htm (accessed January 3,2008))... 

Consider the RFPs for two NSF program solicitations the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award (excerpt IIC) and the Collaborative Research in Chemistry (CRC) award (excerpt IID) Explain how the moves in figure f3.f are... 

Recipient of the United States Public Health Service Research Career Development Award HL-24,867. 

Cohen, DJ. (1986) Research in child psychiatry lines of personal, institutional and career development. In Pincus, H.A. and Pardes, H., eds. Clinical Research Careers in Child Psychiatry. Washington, DC. American Psychiatric Association, p. 74. 

This study was supported by the National Cancer Institute Grant No. l-CP-55666 and CA-21393. Stephen S. Hecht is recipient of National Cancer Institute Research Career Development Award No. 5K04CA00124. 

The author would like to thank S. Chien for helpful discussions and J. A. Cifonelli for supplying the heparin fractions. This work was supported by National Heart and Lung Institute Grant HL-16851. K. M. Jan is supported by a Research Career Development Award (HL-00036). 

We would like to acknowledge the excellent technical assistance of Mr. John Oh and Stewart M. Kernes. Supported in part by USPHS Grants HD-06426, HD-04583 and HD-09402. G. Dawson is the recipient of USPHS Research Career Development Award NS-00029. 

The author is grateful to the National Institutes of Health (USPHS Grant GH 20861) and the Charles and Johanna Busch Memorial Fund of Rutgers University for laboratory support and to the Center for Computer and Information Services of Rutgers University for computer time. A Career Development Award from the USPHS (GM 00155) and an A. P. Sloan Fellowship to W.K.O. are also gratefully acknowledged. 

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