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What can I expect from an academic career? Valuable skills
The document outlines essential skills for a successful academic career, emphasizing curiosity, reading, writing, resilience, and effective communication. It highlights the importance of proactive behavior, good record-keeping, and self-awareness in academia. Additionally, it notes the benefits of managing one's own schedule and collaborating with diverse academic professionals.
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- 1. What can Iexpect from an academic career? The How: valuable academic skills Albert Meroño-Peñuela, PhD @albertmeronyo Amsterdam Data Science career fair, 28-02-2018
- 2. Most valuable skillsin Academia?
- 3. It’s more aboutthe right combination…
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- 5. Skill 2: Avidreader
- 6. Skill 3: Avidwriter (somehow)
- 7. Skill 4: Endurance,resilience, stubbornness
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- 10. Skill 7: Ideas& Book keeping Evernote DEVONthink org-mode
- 11. Skill 8: Enthusiasticpresenter
- 12. Skill 9: LonelycowboyVS social interactions
- 13. Skill 10: Selfawareness, healthy habits, fun
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- 16. Skills Academia asksfrom you Be proactive (when e.g. you go to your supervisor meeting) Presentation skills, comfort and pleasure at communicating both orally and in writing Good record keeping (your memory skills welcome, but memory is finite!)
- 17. Academia perks Be yourown manager - both content and admin wise -- nobody checks your 9-to-5 schedule -- schedule is goal and project based, micro management is rare Interactions with other academic disciplines Working with postdocs, professors, other PhDs -- amazed by how much you can learn from people TRAVEL
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Editor's Notes
- #7 comfort and pleasure at communicating both orally and in writing
- #8 Learn to be critic about your OWN WORK (might as well be the title of this slide)
- #10 Important with supervisors and peers Problem -> bring possible solutions, not just the problem Supervision meeting -> come with your own agenda, THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU WANT
- #11 You’ve got to have this thing you can’t stop amazing ideas blooming out of your head. BUT YOU’LL LOOSE THEM
- #12 YOU NEED TO LOVE WHAT YOU DO comfort and pleasure at communicating both orally and in writing
- #14 Learn to say NO Don’t’ forget to sport Eat well, sleep well