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Finding your first job in biopharma industry. Yingxia Wen Head of Laboratory Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics. Understand yourself. What are the your goals? Personal/family goals Career goals The balance of job and life is more important than you thought. What type of person are you?
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Finding your first job in biopharma industry Yingxia Wen Head of Laboratory Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics
Understand yourself | Presentation Title | Presenter Name | Date | Subject | Business Use Only • What are the your goals? • Personal/family goals • Career goals The balance of job and life is more important than you thought. • What type of person are you? • Leading with authority • Leading without authority • Leading yourself You can become a successful leader no matter if you are a manager or not.
Understand the industry | Presentation Title | Presenter Name | Date | Subject | Business Use Only • Academia vs. Industry • Bio Pharma • Relatively well funded • Well organized/team work • Matrix • Multi-function and multi-culture • Small biotech • CRO and others
CV | Presentation Title | Presenter Name | Date | Subject | Business Use Only Professional, simple and accurate Experience with details Education with degree and dates Technique with keywords Publications and awards Do not include personal information, visa status and unrelated experience.
Submit CV | Presentation Title | Presenter Name | Date | Subject | Business Use Only • Target the right position • Right field • Right experience • Channels for submit CV • Response to job post • Job fair • Recruiter • Social media • Internal reference • Internal information • Send CV to the hand of hiring manager • recommendation
Interview | Presentation Title | Presenter Name | Date | Subject | Business Use Only • Prepare • Prepare your presentation • Study the position, the hire manager, interviewers and company • Prepare the common questions and answers • Interview • Show up on time • Presentation is the most important part!!! • Ask and answer questions • Follow up • Acknowledge with email after interview
Accept offer | Presentation Title | Presenter Name | Date | Subject | Business Use Only Understand your market value Negotiate only when you need to.
| Presentation Title | Presenter Name | Date | Subject | Business Use Only CURRENT POSITION Head of Laboratory Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics Protein Biochemistry, Research US Center of Excellence in Virology, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Cambridge, MA, USA Leading the development of live/inactivated, VLP, vector-based and recombinant subunit viral antigens Leading the development of new platforms for vaccine development, including DNA/RNA vaccines and conjugated vaccines EDUCATION B.S.Biological Sciences and BiotechnologyTsinghua University1996 Cloning and characterization of telomere-associated DNA, with LihuangZhu, Ph.D. Ph.D.Molecular Genetics and Microbiology UMDNJ/Rutgers University2000 Mechanism and modulation of mRNA cap forming enzymes, with Aaron J. Shatkin, Ph.D. EXPERIENCE Postdoctoral Fellow CABM 2000-2001 Aaron Shatkin Laboratory of Molecular Virology, CABM, Piscataway, NJ Postdoctoral Fellow Harvard University 2001-2003 Tom Maniatis Laboratory, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Senior Research Scientist I-II Wyeth 2004-2008 Protein Biochemistry, Structural Biology and Computational Chemistry, Wyeth Research, Cambridge, MA