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Recruiters Not Calling? Market Pull vs. Candidate Push in Job Searches and Why It Matters

August 30, 2019 Matthew Thompson 0

I once had a conversation about career issues with a fellow STEM PhD who had spent many years in the world of business and technology […]

How Erez Kaminski Launched his Early Career in Data Science and Biotechnology with a Bachelor’s Degree in Physics

November 25, 2018 Matthew Thompson 0

Erez Kaminski is currently a Strategic Planning and Operations Manager at Amgen, a major biotechnology company. He moved to Amgen after a two-year stint at […]

Simple Detective Tricks for Physics Career Building and Job Search

July 17, 2016 Matthew Thompson 0

A physics education may teach us to be “investigators” in the research science sense of the word, but the detective skills tend to get omitted. […]

Troubles with Networking 

May 15, 2016 Matthew Thompson 0

It is a good bet that if you have ever been to the career center or sought career guidance of any sort, someone has told […]

3 Things That Could Wreck Your Industrial Physics Job Application

December 14, 2015 Matthew Thompson 0

One of the problems with following a simplistic job search strategy (i.e. see a job advertisement, send a résumé, and wait for a response) is […]

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Matthew Thompson is a physicist and leader who has worked in academia, national labs, and private industry.  He has learned a lot of career lessons along the way and likes to share them in the interest of building a prosperous community of physical scientists. Read More

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