Friday last, I attended the Source Event —an humongous careers fair for scientists, organised by Naturejobs. Some 1100 attendees crammed into the Business Design Centre in Islington to work out what they should do with their lives.
This year’s event easily trumped the 2007 debut, with twice as many exhibitor stands (40), and a bigger and better venue. And cop a load of the muffins:
Sadly, the main hall—a vast barrel-vaulted space like a baby St Pancras—was off limits thanks to a visiting beer festival. Still, I almost got the wrong place when I saw this banner:
The talks were broken into three parallel streams (does that make them canals?): a graduate stream, a postdoc stream and a set of talks on non-traditional careers. I sat in on the latter. Over the next few days, I will review four of these talks that might be of interest to a wider audience.
Tuesday: Volunteering overseas.
Wednesday: Working for a Contract Research Organisation.
Thursday: A career in industry, working on cosmetics.
Friday: Editing and writing.
Stay tuned…
Unfortunately, this years’ Source Event was one week too early for me to attend but maybe I can take part next year. I’m looking forward to your coverage. Will there also be new a series of podcasts from Nature Jobs?
Hi Christoph,
There will. We think we’ll manage to get 12 out this year so one a month.
We’re just in the process of listening back to them and trying to order them in a sensible way plus it takes some time to edit but hopefully the first should be the end of October.
We have just released a podcast from a panel discussion we did at ESOF on the topic of traditional careers which can be found here
Thanks
Andy