Career Development

A successful postdoctoral experience requires not only progress in your research endeavors but development of your career plans. Please take advantage of the many resources below. Also, visit our calendar for upcoming career and professional development events.

Postdoctoral Scholar
Travel Fund
Career Services, Teaching, Writing
Grant Writing
Scientific Writing

Responsible Conduct of Research
Business of Bioscience
Yale Business Cards
Online Career Resources
and Job Postings
Postdoc Fellowship Websites

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Postdoctoral Scholar Travel Fund

*Currently the Travel Fund has been suspended. We hope to resume again in the fall 2013. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Attending academic conferences is extremely important for networking and becoming known in your field. If, on rare occasions, your faculty mentor does not have the funds to send you to a conference, apply to the Postdoctoral Scholar Travel Fund. Please note: The fund is available only to postdocs in departments in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

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Graduate Career Services, Teaching, and Writing

The McDougal Center in the Yale Graduate School houses Graduate Career Services (GCS), the Graduate Teaching Center, and the Writing Center. Although focusing on graduate students, many of their programs are open to postdocs! Visit their sites to view upcoming events.

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Grant Writing

Yale's office for Grant and Contract Administration maintains databases of funding opportunities and offers workshops on seeking funding, applying for grants, and preparing postdoctoral fellowship applications.

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Scientific Writing

The 8 week Scientific Writing course for postdocs teaches technical style, word choice and location, sentence structure, and paragraph structure. Participants apply the presented writing principles to their own research paper or grant. This course is taught by a scientific writer and editor and is designed for native and non-native English speakers alike. The course is offered twice per year, and postdocs will be alerted by email when the course will next be available.

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Responsible Conduct of Research

This 8 week course trains postdocs in the responsible conduct of research and covers topics recommended by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Research Integrity. It is usually offered in late spring and is given by University faculty and administrators.

Topics include:
Animal Subjects
Human Subjects
Data Management
Publication/Authorship/Peer Review
Conflicts of Interest
Research Misconduct
Mentoring
Collaaborating with Industry

Go to http://www.yale.edu/training/, Postdoctoral Affairs for more information.

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Business of Bioscience

The Yale Healthcare and Life Sciences Club brings together graduate students and postdocs in the biomedical sciences, business, medicine, public health, and law for educational and career-related opportunities in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. The YBPS offers postdocs valuable experience, whether you plan a career in academia, as a researcher in industry, or in another role within industry (e.g., patent law, regulation, marketing, business development).