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Notes for job seekers

The listing is intended primarily for bioinformatics, biostatistics, computational jobs. Most of the job web sites allow to create alerts customized with relevant keywords. Also, post your resume, where available.

Make suggestions by opening an issue or a pull request.

• Resources
• CV, resume templates
• Job talk
• Misc

Resources

• NatureJobs - jobs posted by Nature journal. https://www.nature.com/naturecareers
• ScienceCareers - jobs posted by Science journal. https://jobs.sciencecareers.org/
• Cell Career Network - jobs posted by Cell journal. http://jobs.cell.com/
• FACEB jobs - jobs posted by Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. https://careers.faseb.org/jobs/
• usajobs.gov - jobs in federal government. https://www.usajobs.gov/
• Juju - jobs in industry. http://www.juju.com/
• AcademicJobsOnline - jobs in academia. https://academicjobsonline.org
• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/
• ResearchGate - https://www.researchgate.net/jobs
• Glassdoor - https://www.glassdoor.com
• ISCB careers - bioinformatics and computational jobs in academia. https://careers.iscb.org
• Bioinformatics.org - bioinformatics jobs forum. https://www.bioinformatics.org/jobs/
• MSD jobs - Merck job board. https://jobs.msd.com/
• EuroPharmaJobs - jobs in Europe. https://www.europharmajobs.com/
• QuantBio - crowdsource jobs listing, for faculty and postdoc positions. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Kfx9yxPsSmwG4rGartrbngCZAKnXSP2qB384pGP2qqU/edit#gid=513847731
• GeneticsCareers.org - the jobs board provided by the Genetics Society of America. http://geneticscareers.org/

CV, resume templates

• How To Build An Amazing LinkedIn Profile (15+ Proven Tips), https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-build-an-amazing-linkedin-profile-15-proven-tips/
• A collection of cv and resume templates written in LaTeX, https://github.com/jankapunkt/latexcv
• R Markdown Résumés and CVs, https://ropenscilabs.github.io/vitae/, https://github.com/ropenscilabs/vitae
• YAAC: Another Awesome CV is a template using Font Awesome and Adobe Source Font, https://github.com/darwiin/yaac-another-awesome-cv
• RMarkdown CV built using the pagedown R package:
  • Guangchuang Yu's CV, https://github.com/GuangchuangYu/cv
  • Nick Strayer's CV, https://github.com/nstrayer/cv

Job talk

• "How To Tell Your Story Retention", good summary how to make a presentation, https://www.dropbox.com/s/52ulhzkgzm78zix/How%20To%20Tell%20Your%20Story%20Retention%20Document.pdf?dl=0

• Chalk talks: how to avoid 10 pitfalls, https://sociobiology.wordpress.com/2016/10/11/chalk-talks-how-to-avoid-10-pitfalls/

• Fleming, Nic. “How to Give a Great Scientific Talk.” Nature 564, no. 7736 (December 2018): S84–85. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-07780-5. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07780-5

• Tips for a Successful Job Talk. https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2018/01/10/advice-giving-effective-job-presentation-opinion

• Giving a Job Talk in the Sciences. https://www.chronicle.com/article/Giving-a-Job-Talk-in-the/45375

• Sura, Shayna A., Lauren L. Smith, Monique R. Ambrose, C. Eduardo Guerra Amorim, Annabel C. Beichman, Ana C. R. Gomez, Mark Juhn, et al. “Ten Simple Rules for Giving an Effective Academic Job Talk.” PLoS Computational Biology 15, no. 7 (July 2019): e1007163. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007163. - Know your audience, sell yourself, impress the expert colleagues, appeal to the non-experts, summarize best of your best, give a good talk, make clear slides (recommendations provided), describe your vision, master Q&A session, be professional.

Misc

• The Top 7 Management Styles: Which Ones Are Most Effective? https://www.workzone.com/blog/management-styles/

• Professional Development videos. https://www.ibiology.org/career-development/professional-development/

• Bioinformatics job posting by Nicolas Descostes, https://github.com/descostesn/jobposting, source

• Resources for faculty by Ming Tang, https://github.com/crazyhottommy/The-world-of-faculty

• Notes on interview questions, for faculty and postdoc positions. Specific questions and general recommendations. https://lgatto.github.io/interview-questions/

• 10 Things No One Told Me About Applying for Tenure, https://chroniclevitae.com/news/2191-10-things-no-one-told-me-about-applying-for-tenure

• R Programming: 35 Job Interview Questions and Answers. https://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/r-programming-job-interview-questions-and-answers