VanBUG Career Panel Talk

• if you like what you're doing now, great, otherwise move on
• interviews are made to measure your stress level
• PhD can sometimes close more doors than it opens (might need to relocate ...)
• Some companies allow you to publish while working!
• Network network network and did I say network?
• Conference blogging as a career, blog in general, (caveat: might have setbacks, eg. bad comments, so try to be objective, exclude personal life)
• get some web presence, work on some open-source projects (it shows that you can work with others) 
• There's no 'Bioinformatics' job title in the Gov't search, pick 'Scientist' or computer scientist or something close ...
• Follow your passion, side-projects might blossom
• Know where you want to go and work towards it, eg. PhD requires you to drive your own research
• ~98% of startups fail, need to find the right people to work with, those people with complementary skills (entrepreneurial)
• Great researchers have ideas, are able to see through it to the end and excellent collaborators 

http://www.vanbug.org/2011/careers-in-bioinformatics/