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What can I expect from an
academic career?
The How: valuable academic skills
Albert Meroño-Peñuela, PhD @albertmeronyo
Amsterdam Data Science career fair, 28-02-2018
Most valuable skills in Academia?
It’s more about the right combination…
Skill 1: Curiosity
Skill 2: Avid reader
Skill 3: Avid writer (somehow)
Skill 4: Endurance, resilience, stubbornness
Skill 5: Pedantry
Skill 6: Proactivity
Skill 7: Ideas & Book keeping
Evernote DEVONthink org-mode
Skill 8: Enthusiastic presenter
Skill 9: Lonely cowboyVS social interactions
Skill 10: Self awareness, healthy habits, fun
Books!
Thank you!
@albertmeronyo
http://amsterdamdatascience.nl/
https://krr.cs.vu.nl/
http://clariah.nl/
Skills Academia asks from 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!)
Academia perks
Be your own 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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What can I expect from an academic career? Valuable skills

Notes de l'éditeur

  1. comfort and pleasure at communicating both orally and in writing
  2. Learn to be critic about your OWN WORK (might as well be the title of this slide)
  3. 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
  4. You’ve got to have this thing you can’t stop amazing ideas blooming out of your head. BUT YOU’LL LOOSE THEM
  5. YOU NEED TO LOVE WHAT YOU DO comfort and pleasure at communicating both orally and in writing
  6. Learn to say NO Don’t’ forget to sport Eat well, sleep well