Not Networking 101: Building Relationships for Success

00:00:07.14 Hi. I'm Joanne Kamens.
00:00:08.24 I work at Addgene;
00:00:10.27 I'm the Executive Director, and Addgene is
00:00:13.13 one of the sponsors of today's presentation,
00:00:15.22 called ""Not" Networking 101".
00:00:17.24 I call it "Not" Networking because the word networking
00:00:19.24 implies going to a meeting, exchanging cards,
00:00:21.24 and not really getting to know the people that you meet.
00:00:24.26 So, this talk is really about what to do when you meet people,
00:00:26.25 how to build those relationships
00:00:28.20 so that they help you later in your career.
00:00:30.13 I want to thank iBio and ASCB
00:00:33.06 for inviting me to give this talk today,
00:00:35.21 and I hope you enjoy the content.
00:00:37.12 I can be reached at the Twitter handles on this first slide
00:00:40.11 that you can see, so feel free to reach out to me if you have questions or comments.
00:00:44.17 So, what is networking?
00:00:46.18 So, I mentioned before that people
00:00:48.16 tend to think that networking is giving their card,
00:00:50.10 getting their card,
00:00:51.20 and while that's a good way to meet people,
00:00:53.07 it's really more than that.
00:00:55.02 It's a way to share ideas, get information, advice, and input.
00:00:58.09 It's not just at work; it can be anywhere that you're meeting people.
00:01:01.08 I've had many, many examples
00:01:03.25 where I've met people at, you know,
00:01:07.22 at sports games at temple, in some other social situation
00:01:09.21 where it's turned out to be
00:01:12.00 a part of my professional life
00:01:13.29 or a part of my personal interests,
00:01:15.23 but really the key is not just meeting people,
00:01:17.16 but developing relationships with them.
00:01:19.09 Because you don't just meet someone
00:01:21.10 and then they do a favor for you.
00:01:22.16 The people that do favors for you or that you do favors for
00:01:25.25 are the people that you know and have an ongoing relationship with.
00:01:28.01 So, what that means is that, if you're in graduate school
00:01:30.07 or you're doing a postdoc,
00:01:32.19 it's never too early to start building those relationships.
00:01:34.21 This means the people in the lab next door,
00:01:36.20 the grad students in your lab,
00:01:38.24 different people in your department...
00:01:40.21 those people in 10 years will be colleagues of yours
00:01:43.18 in other cities, in industry, in academia,
00:01:46.13 and they will give you access to opportunities and resources,
00:01:48.22 and information.
00:01:50.11 So, it really is something that has to be a focus
00:01:53.06 -- you can't just put your nose to the bench --
00:01:55.10 you have to be building these relationships early.
00:01:57.24 Because when you need a job or you need a favor,
00:02:00.04 it's too late to look for those relationships.
00:02:02.22 So, why is building first relationships important?
00:02:05.10 While, you know, even if you're shy,
00:02:07.15 it's good to have a more satisfying professional life.
00:02:10.26 Every aspect of science involves collaboration, now.
00:02:13.16 I don't know a scientist who doesn't come upon something in their work
00:02:16.00 that they need to get advice or input about,
00:02:19.06 and instead of reading 100 papers,
00:02:21.14 wouldn't it be great if you could just pick up the phone
00:02:23.12 and say, "Hey, I know you're an expert in y;
00:02:25.26 I need to know about y and I need to know about it right now
00:02:27.27 because I got this weird result in my data."
00:02:29.27 It's so much more helpful.
00:02:32.08 It's time-saving and it's much more of
00:02:36.19 an enjoyable experience to work with people on those kinds of opportunities.
00:02:39.18 There's no doubt that it helps people get jobs,
00:02:41.22 and I'll tell you some stories from my own career about that.
00:02:44.11 It can provide a support system
00:02:46.26 -- sometimes you just need a cheerleader
00:02:48.25 and having the right connections and associates say
00:02:51.00 "You can do it!"
00:02:52.23 seems like a small thing,
00:02:54.15 but it can really be a big thing in your career in developing confidence
00:02:57.16 and in developing your identity, your brand,
00:03:00.03 what is it that you're known for.
00:03:01.19 Your network and your connections
00:03:03.17 all help you build that experience.
00:03:07.21 So, this is true.
00:03:09.11 This is how people get jobs.
00:03:11.26 So, I'm lucky. I'm in Boston. It's a very strong network.
00:03:14.23 There's a lot of networking resources available,
00:03:17.26 there's a lot of places you can go
00:03:20.00 and things you can do,
00:03:21.16 but the fact of the matter is, no matter where you live,
00:03:23.07 no matter what you do,
00:03:25.14 when you know people it's easier to get a job.
00:03:28.04 So, when I applied for my job at Addgene,
00:03:30.20 which I love so much -- it's a great place to work,
00:03:35.11 I feel like it's a real opportunity for me --
00:03:37.21 when the person whose job I was...
00:03:40.10 the person who was the primary interviewer of the job
00:03:42.09 was one of the founders of Addgene, Melina Fan,
00:03:44.24 and Melina was someone who I had handed an award to
00:03:49.07 at a ceremony about...
00:03:51.01 a couple of years before.
00:03:52.20 So, instead of being a stranger,
00:03:54.11 it was someone known to me.
00:03:55.23 And when I went in to interview with the board of Addgene,
00:03:57.28 half of the people on the board knew me, or I knew,
00:04:00.26 for many, many years.
00:04:02.13 So, there's no doubt that getting jobs
00:04:05.24 is helped by having these types of connections.
00:04:07.24 And no just people, again, that you've exchanged cards with
00:04:10.21 and that you've met once,
00:04:12.12 but people that you've really spent time with and done things for,
00:04:15.07 and we'll talk about that.
00:04:16.26 So, I see so many scientists, postdocs and grad students,
00:04:19.12 interested in breaking into industry
00:04:21.22 and if, you know, if that's your goal, if don't know anybody industry,
00:04:26.12 if you have no relationships with people in industry,
00:04:28.19 you're making it much harder for yourself to do that.
00:04:31.03 There's no doubt that this a good reason to build relationships
00:04:34.19 in your career.
00:04:36.10 But academic scientists need a network as well.
00:04:38.02 I'm always shocked by the fact that people think that
00:04:41.20 the granting and publication experience, collaboration,
00:04:44.13 space in your department...
00:04:45.29 everything that you do as a scientist
00:04:48.11 can be helped by people that care about you,
00:04:50.26 who have relationships with you,
00:04:51.27 or are willing to do you a favor,
00:04:53.22 even just introducing you to the next person
00:04:55.18 that you should talk to for collaboration.
00:04:58.20 All of those relationships help you.
00:05:01.00 It's much stronger that looking up things online.
00:05:02.21 There's no doubt that looking up things online is important,
00:05:05.10 but knowing people and having people that know about you,
00:05:07.17 and introducing you to useful connections,
00:05:10.03 is really, really important.
00:05:11.26 And, I mean, I don't know about you,
00:05:13.18 but I've never been in a department
00:05:15.24 where knowing the administrative assistant
00:05:17.11 has not been my most important connection.
00:05:19.04 Those are the people in your department
00:05:21.05 that can get things done,
00:05:22.29 and if you haven't developed a relationships with them
00:05:26.01 you're wasting your time in getting things done in a much slower way.
00:05:28.16 Professional societies are a great way to get to know people.
00:05:32.06 And, wow, if you have connections on granting agencies
00:05:35.28 and review committees,
00:05:37.12 this is an enormous boost to your career in academia.
00:05:40.06 So, there's no doubt that these skills are valuable,
00:05:44.05 not just for an industry transition,
00:05:46.05 but also for scientists who are going to stay in an academic setting.
00:05:50.22 So, now we're going to talk a little bit about
00:05:53.14 some of the practical things to do
00:05:56.23 to build you network and develop those relationships,
00:05:58.15 and I'm going to try to give you some very concrete tools
00:06:00.11 for that,
00:06:01.26 because I find some people who don't have practice doing it
00:06:04.08 find it very hard where to start.
00:06:05.28 So, you should know that practice makes it easier,
00:06:07.22 so that's the first thing.
00:06:09.09 So, if you ask yourself,
00:06:11.09 every time I go into a situation where I can meet people,
00:06:13.02 I'm going to try and meet just one person.
00:06:15.03 You don't want to wait until you need your network to build it
00:06:19.00 because, if you wait 'til then,
00:06:20.17 you don't have a relationship.
00:06:22.15 Tons and tons of people link in with me
00:06:25.08 from 10 years ago, when I knew them,
00:06:27.02 but they haven't bothered to answer my emails
00:06:29.10 or stay in touch or acknowledge my job changes.
00:06:31.21 We're not in touch -- I'm much less likely to activate my network
00:06:34.02 or to do something as a favor for them
00:06:36.00 than I am for someone who I've been in touch with
00:06:38.20 steadily over the last 10-20 years of my career.
00:06:40.22 So, you have to... you can't wait to activate it.
00:06:43.19 You don't know where key connections will come from.
00:06:46.01 I meet people everywhere I go.
00:06:47.11 I meet people when I go speak, I meet people around the country,
00:06:50.22 I meet people in coffee shops, I meet people on airplanes...
00:06:53.00 you never know where connections will come from.
00:06:55.05 And any time you're meeting with people, you're networking.
00:07:00.03 So, we tend to hate networking.
00:07:01.23 And, you know, you are in an airplane
00:07:03.15 and you want to put your headphones on
00:07:05.17 and you don't want to meet the person next to you,
00:07:07.23 even though you see that they're reading Nature.
00:07:09.12 You know, it might be worth five minutes of your time
00:07:12.00 to introduce yourself to the person next to you
00:07:15.18 and say, "Oh hey, you know, I liked that article in Nature that was X,"
00:07:17.03 and take that extra... get out of your comfort zone a little bit.
00:07:19.25 But artificial networking is hard,
00:07:21.23 so I'm going to talk about some of the natural ways you can network.
00:07:24.25 Artificial networking is going to an event, you stand in a corner,
00:07:27.18 you try and get someone to talk to you...
00:07:29.27 most people are not comfortable doing that, believe it or not,
00:07:33.08 although there are ways to work networking events and conferences.
00:07:35.24 Of course, conferences are a huge opportunity
00:07:37.22 to do networking,
00:07:39.15 but what we want to do is make networking feel normal.
00:07:41.19 So, the way it always worked for me
00:07:44.09 was not something that I did consciously, but becoming active in groups.
00:07:46.04 I founded a Boston chapter for the Association for Women in Science,
00:07:49.07 I got involved in the Board of the Healthcare Businesswomen's Association,
00:07:51.28 I'm actually on the Board of the MIT Hillel Association now,
00:07:56.18 and I meet all kinds of interesting people that way.
00:07:58.29 Showing people what you can do,
00:08:00.15 what work you can do,
00:08:02.15 by volunteering or by becoming active in a professional group,
00:08:04.25 is a great way to network,
00:08:06.12 because whether you like it or not,
00:08:08.22 those people become your connections and your relationships.
00:08:11.02 So, when I came to Addgene,
00:08:12.27 one of the things that they wanted was
00:08:15.28 a reference for someone in non-profit work,
00:08:17.25 because I had been in for-profit companies,
00:08:19.26 although I had done a lot of non-profit work in my career,
00:08:22.12 never for money.
00:08:23.29 And it was amazing to me the number of people
00:08:27.00 who I had volunteered with,
00:08:28.15 not people who I was paid to work with,
00:08:30.09 who were paid to work with me,
00:08:31.28 who were willing to step forward and talk about my work as a reference
00:08:34.18 when that became necessary for my job transition.
00:08:36.27 So ummm... you never know,
00:08:38.27 those relationships can be deep,
00:08:41.01 they can lead to opportunities,
00:08:42.24 and it's a very, very natural way of meeting people
00:08:44.24 and getting to know them.
00:08:46.13 I have had a rule for the last 20 years.
00:08:48.09 I have lunch with another human being
00:08:50.29 at least twice a week, sometimes in my department,
00:08:53.05 sometimes not in my department,
00:08:55.06 in my company, not in my company...
00:08:57.12 now that I'm at Addgene, I probably do it 5 or 6 times a week,
00:09:00.03 so it's really fun because I've had a lot of practice,
00:09:02.07 so it's comfortable for me,
00:09:04.09 but it's really, really important to talk to other people.
00:09:06.28 I have to tell you, when I had two children,
00:09:09.08 3 and 5, I worked full-time at a pharmaceutical company
00:09:11.20 and I had an hour commute.
00:09:13.27 It wasn't easy for me not to want to have my lunch at my desk
00:09:16.10 and, you know, you know,
00:09:18.05 while I was on the internet,
00:09:19.24 and do nothing else and not talk to anybody
00:09:22.25 because I was tired and the quiet was very, very pleasant,
00:09:25.19 but twice a week, on my calendar,
00:09:27.15 I make dates with people.
00:09:29.06 And it's very natural to call someone and say,
00:09:31.28 "Hey, I want to learn more about what you do in your department,
00:09:34.00 with your work, come have lunch with me."
00:09:36.01 So, it's a natural way to network
00:09:37.22 and a good way to get to know people.
00:09:40.29 I'm going to tell one other story about this, about how I hate networking.
00:09:44.07 So, I gave this talk relationship at a Boston university...
00:09:47.13 a university in Boston,
00:09:49.13 not Boston University,
00:09:51.06 and I come in the room and there's
00:09:53.17 100 people in the room getting cookies and coffee, and that was great...
00:09:57.06 a big, big auditorium though,
00:09:59.04 so I had blocked off the last few rows
00:10:01.21 because when I give this talk when there are people around
00:10:03.19 I usually have interactive activities
00:10:05.20 that we do as part of the workshop,
00:10:07.11 and every single person sat down with
00:10:09.17 an empty seat between them and another person.
00:10:11.23 Now, these are people that are all at the same university,
00:10:14.08 many of them working together in the same departments,
00:10:16.09 mostly postdocs...
00:10:18.26 basically, I have this little image on the slide of an empty seat.
00:10:22.15 It basically says when you leave a seat between you and the next person,
00:10:26.04 it's like saying, "I'm not interested in you and I don't want to talk to you and I don't want to meet you."
00:10:29.24 You may as well put a t-shirt on that just says "Not Interested."
00:10:32.29 Okay?
00:10:34.08 And so the room was completely silent. Everyone's eating their cookies...
00:10:36.16 there's like 100 people in the room.
00:10:38.10 I couldn't believe it.
00:10:39.23 So, I made them all get up and sit next to another person.
00:10:42.01 Within 3 minutes, the room was full of noise,
00:10:44.20 people were talking, shaking hands,
00:10:46.21 introducing themselves and talking about their work.
00:10:48.12 I almost didn't even need to start the workshop
00:10:50.08 because we had accomplished the goal, okay?
00:10:52.01 So, the very most natural thing at a conference
00:10:54.29 or when you attend a talk,
00:10:57.08 especially in your department,
00:10:59.08 these are really your colleagues and friends.
00:11:00.27 There's no reason for you not to get to know them.
00:11:03.05 Sit next to someone and just introduce yourself
00:11:05.16 and ask them what they do.
00:11:07.27 It's completely natural, it's not weird,
00:11:10.00 it's one on one, you're not in a scary crowd,
00:11:12.07 you're just talking to one person.
00:11:14.27 So, if you say to yourself, once a month,
00:11:16.27 I'm going to sit next to a stranger and introduce myself,
00:11:19.02 you will get better at it as time goes on.
00:11:22.00 So, setting goals like that for yourself
00:11:24.05 is a very good way to grow your network
00:11:26.11 with actual action,
00:11:28.05 as opposed to just thinking about it.
00:11:30.05 Okay.
00:11:32.02 So, there are events,
00:11:34.08 and networking events are good
00:11:37.02 because everybody there is there to meet people.
00:11:38.11 So, especially if you're interested in getting into industry or if you're at a conference...
00:11:40.03 so, I would say a conference is a networking event...
00:11:42.02 at a conference, scientists want to meet each other to see
00:11:44.20 what opportunities there are for collaboration and information sharing,
00:11:48.11 and at a networking event
00:11:51.24 academia and industry scientists want to meet other people
00:11:54.02 and see what opportunities, potentially for jobs or, you know, funding
00:11:58.20 or whatever else, you know, may come out of it.
00:12:00.29 So, it's there for that.
00:12:02.17 So, you shouldn't feel weird about talking to people
00:12:04.12 or joining a crowd of people who are talking,
00:12:06.10 or talk to someone who's standing by themselves in a corner.
00:12:08.29 They're really going to appreciate
00:12:11.28 the fact that you have, you know, saved them from being alone in the corner, okay?
00:12:15.26 So, those are really easy ways...
00:12:18.17 networking, if you're willing to get out of your comfort zone a little bit,
00:12:20.17 especially if you hate those types of events,
00:12:22.13 you can get a lot of benefit,
00:12:24.02 because everyone is there for the same reason.
00:12:25.13 One good thing to do is to come prepared.
00:12:27.01 Figure out who is going to be at the event.
00:12:28.12 Who will be there?
00:12:29.24 Who is there going to be to talk to?
00:12:31.09 What information do you have on the topic?
00:12:33.05 Perhaps you're a little bit prepared,
00:12:34.27 so you have something to talk about?
00:12:36.22 But one thing I want to say...
00:12:38.15 you don't have to talk to people you don't like.
00:12:40.04 So, that's the good thing about a networking event.
00:12:41.28 And, in general, I don't suggest that you
00:12:44.24 network with people that are unpleasant, you don't like,
00:12:47.06 or you're having a hard time connecting with
00:12:49.13 because you have nothing in common.
00:12:51.01 Really, networking is not talking to a crowd;
00:12:52.26 it's talking one-on-one with a person.
00:12:56.13 If you go to an event and you meet two people
00:12:58.23 that you want to follow up with,
00:13:00.10 maybe have coffee with them or send them an article or something
00:13:02.08 -- we'll talk more about that in some upcoming slides --
00:13:03.27 if you want to do that,
00:13:06.03 that's all you have to do to have accomplished your goal for the evening.
00:13:09.01 And, if you're talking to someone that you've talked to for a few minutes,
00:13:11.09 you don't see much there,
00:13:13.07 maybe you have exchanged cards -- we'll talk about that in a second --
00:13:16.04 you just say, "You know, I'm going to go get a drink. It's nice to meet you,"
00:13:19.19 shake hands and move on.
00:13:21.00 That's completely natural at a networking event.
00:13:22.22 Again, the more you practice it, the easier it gets.
00:13:25.11 So, it does take a little energy and initiative
00:13:27.23 to "work" a networking event,
00:13:29.14 but you can get a lot out of it if you
00:13:32.03 make your focus to be, I'm going to meet one of two people
00:13:34.06 that I'm going to talk to again.
00:13:36.04 So, let's talk about being at an event or meeting someone
00:13:39.00 for the first time.
00:13:40.12 So, you should have something ready,
00:13:42.09 a little bit in your head, and don't think that...
00:13:44.06 you think that good networkers do this naturally,
00:13:46.19 they do this without trying...
00:13:48.23 oh no, they prepare.
00:13:50.11 They talk about what they want to say.
00:13:52.13 When I go to an event and want to get the word out about Addgene,
00:13:54.11 I can tell you what the reason is within 60 seconds
00:13:56.24 why you would want to get involved in working with Addgene
00:13:59.06 or depositing to our library.
00:14:01.04 Work on it, practice it with friends,
00:14:03.05 practice it with relatives,
00:14:04.29 write it out but then don't give it as a speech,
00:14:07.15 but make sure you get the points down that you want to say.
00:14:10.25 Don't get bogged down with jargon.
00:14:12.12 Don't walk up to somebody and say,
00:14:14.13 "I work on phosphate-521 of the MAP kinase gene,"
00:14:17.04 because they're not really interested, probably,
00:14:19.14 in phosphate-521.
00:14:20.28 Now, if you speak to them for 5 minutes
00:14:22.24 and find out that they work on dephosphorylation of phosphate-521,
00:14:26.02 boy, you guys probably have a lot to talk about, okay?
00:14:28.07 But, probably, they're interested in signal transduction
00:14:31.12 in general, potentially,
00:14:33.09 or maybe they're interested in cancer,
00:14:35.00 which is what you really working on MAP kinase genes,
00:14:38.05 or some other disease state.
00:14:40.13 So, think about the general application of what you do,
00:14:42.15 not about your specific detail or scientific jargon.
00:14:46.00 And you may have different version of this speech.
00:14:47.29 If you go to a conference on MAP kinases,
00:14:49.20 well, you can probably let loose on phosphate...
00:14:52.29 on tyrosine-521, but, you know, if you don't have...
00:14:55.26 you know, if you're not at a scientific conference,
00:14:57.26 what you talk to people about might look very different.
00:15:01.09 So, another thing is you may want to have a hook or a story.
00:15:05.04 So, people don't give you things if you don't tell them what you want.
00:15:07.23 So, if you're having trouble with a scientific problem,
00:15:09.18 that's a good thing to have ready in your back pocket
00:15:12.08 to talk about at a conference.
00:15:13.24 So, for example, the most popular,
00:15:15.25 most responded to presentation I ever gave,
00:15:18.07 was about 12 years ago at a very early conference on RNAi.
00:15:22.20 And for those of you work in that field,
00:15:24.17 you know that's a very young field,
00:15:26.15 and early on there were no purchasable reagents.
00:15:28.13 We were making things ourselves,
00:15:30.04 we couldn't buy things off the shelves,
00:15:32.04 and I was having a lot of technical difficulties.
00:15:35.05 It turned out, one of the technical difficulties
00:15:37.14 was that we were labeling oligos to do RNAi
00:15:41.03 with a fluor, with a glowing chemical moiety,
00:15:43.07 that was quenched in the compartment
00:15:45.15 where RNAi took place.
00:15:47.10 So, we couldn't tell if we were delivering
00:15:49.25 the molecules to the cells,
00:15:52.02 because as soon as things started working they would get quenched,
00:15:54.14 you know?
00:15:55.29 And we didn't really know this; all we knew was that the color disappeared.
00:15:58.09 We didn't really understand what was going on.
00:16:00.09 So, I gave a talk about all my failed experiments.
00:16:02.04 A half an hour showing data,
00:16:06.16 showing examples of things that weren't working.
00:16:07.28 I was doing RNAi in immune cells,
00:16:09.29 it was fairly difficult technically,
00:16:11.22 and I talked about my problems.
00:16:13.09 I got so many calls and articles and suggestions,
00:16:16.00 and, in fact, one of the collaborations
00:16:18.13 that I developed as a result of that conference
00:16:20.14 resulted in my second job,
00:16:22.14 which was in biotech in an RNAi company,
00:16:24.15 many, many years later...
00:16:26.11 probably 8 years after the fact or 9 years after this.
00:16:28.08 So, really, ummm... you know,
00:16:32.23 be ready with something that you want to ask for and have help with.
00:16:34.15 Have something interesting to talk about.
00:16:36.17 If someone says, "How are you?",
00:16:38.09 don't just say, I'm fine, say,
00:16:40.01 "Well, I'm really happy because my kid learned to drive today
00:16:42.18 and got their license,"
00:16:44.06 and, you know, you may have a story that you can share.
00:16:46.09 So, be a little personal.
00:16:47.28 That makes it much easier to have a conversation
00:16:49.26 when you're in an artificial networking situation.
00:16:52.27 So, let's talk about teaching your name.
00:16:54.23 So, the first thing I want to tell you is
00:16:58.08 you have to still have a business card.
00:17:00.09 It will be great when we can all beam each other our information on our phones,
00:17:02.19 but that's not really the case.
00:17:03.23 But there is a kind of secret reason to have a business card even if it just says you name,
00:17:07.01 and where you're a postdoc
00:17:08.23 and that you're a postdoc...
00:17:10.12 also, most of your universities or your organizations
00:17:12.15 will allow you to put their logo on those cards.
00:17:14.09 They're free.
00:17:15.25 You can go to Vistaprint and get 500 cards.
00:17:17.23 But the real reason for having a business card
00:17:20.01 is because of what happens when you give someone your card:
00:17:23.06 they give you theirs.
00:17:24.26 If you don't have a card to give
00:17:26.24 and you want to get the person's contact information
00:17:29.25 of the person that you're talking to,
00:17:32.07 you can't do it if you don't have a card of your own.
00:17:33.23 So, if you're doing any kind of industry networking, maybe not as true as academia,
00:17:37.27 but if you are interested in sort of formal networking,
00:17:40.10 make sure that you have a business card
00:17:44.06 to give, so that the reason is that you can get them.
00:17:46.25 So, when you're at a networking event, the other thing
00:17:49.04 is to make sure that your name tag is very visible.
00:17:51.00 I mean, you want people to learn your name.
00:17:52.12 This is not a thing that you should hide.
00:17:53.29 I can't tell you the number of times I go to an event
00:17:56.00 and people have pasted their... or tag...
00:17:57.23 put their tag down at their butt or down on their leg.
00:18:00.10 It's completely ridiculous.
00:18:01.22 The person, to see your name,
00:18:03.14 has to bend down and look ridiculous.
00:18:05.02 You can to put your name tag somehow,
00:18:08.25 with a pin, with a clip, on your right lapel,
00:18:10.19 easily to see it.
00:18:12.05 Make sure your hair isn't in the way, there's no scarves...
00:18:14.01 make sure your name tag is visible.
00:18:15.27 And if someone else's name tag isn't visible,
00:18:17.09 I'm very visual...
00:18:18.15 they tell me their name and I won't learn it.
00:18:19.25 But if I see it, I'll remember.
00:18:22.06 I will tell someone,
00:18:23.12 "I can't see your name tag, can I take a better look?"
00:18:25.08 This is a polite thing to do.
00:18:26.25 You're telling someone that
00:18:29.00 you care about learning their name, okay?
00:18:30.07 It's a great way to start a conversation.
00:18:33.04 Also, still in this country
00:18:34.28 and in most countries,
00:18:36.04 it's very important to have a firm and practiced handshake.
00:18:39.05 If you don't do this well,
00:18:40.28 find someone who does it well
00:18:42.28 and get them to teach you how to do it, and practice until it's natural.
00:18:45.12 There's nothing like going up to someone,
00:18:47.05 shaking their hands,
00:18:48.15 and they give you a little limp handshake.
00:18:50.10 It gives somebody an impression of you
00:18:52.18 as being weak and unimportant.
00:18:54.09 It's a psychological thing.
00:18:55.20 They don't do it on purpose.
00:18:57.03 They just get the impression that
00:18:59.29 there's not much to you.
00:19:01.25 So, if you don't know what that means,
00:19:03.08 find someone to teach you how to have a firm and practiced handshake.
00:19:04.24 The other thing is, if you're teaching you name,
00:19:06.28 make sure you say your name clearly.
00:19:08.16 If you have a name that's difficult, potentially,
00:19:11.03 if you're in an English-speaking environment,
00:19:12.24 which is usually true in science,
00:19:15.02 make sure that your name is very clear,
00:19:17.07 and if you have a name with 5 syllables
00:19:19.05 that's hard for most Americans or English speakers to pronounce,
00:19:21.24 maybe you want to, you know,
00:19:24.02 share a nickname or make a joke about the pronunciation,
00:19:26.02 because it's a good way for people to learn it.
00:19:27.21 I met someone whose name was [unknown]
00:19:30.12 and none of the letters in her name spelled that word.
00:19:33.13 It was an Irish name that was spelled
00:19:35.14 completely differently than it sounded.
00:19:37.21 Nobody ever forgot her name because she had it on her name tag
00:19:40.05 and you had to go through a whole conversation
00:19:41.29 about why that was pronounced "Neev".
00:19:44.09 It was a huge advantage for her.
00:19:45.24 No one ever forgot her name, okay?
00:19:47.01 So, you can use your name as a way of breaking the ice.
00:19:50.07 If someone tells you their name and you didn't hear it,
00:19:54.11 again, it's polite to ask them to repeat it, right?
00:19:55.26 All you're doing is saying, "I really want to... I care about you,
00:19:59.01 I want to learn your name," okay?
00:20:00.16 And that can also get the conversation going.
00:20:02.18 So, I mentioned before how important it is
00:20:05.08 to tell people what you need.
00:20:06.28 People like to help people,
00:20:09.08 and those are the people that you want to be networking with
00:20:11.11 and building relationships with anyway.
00:20:12.20 You want to be open with your challenges but not whiny.
00:20:15.23 So, it is tough.
00:20:17.13 I meet tons of people who are looking for work right now
00:20:19.04 and some of them have been looking for work
00:20:21.18 for a long, long time, right?
00:20:22.27 It's hard not to get whiny.
00:20:24.20 But that's not really going to help
00:20:27.11 because it's scary to the people that you're meeting
00:20:30.06 unless it's a very, very close relationship.
00:20:31.20 So, be careful about that.
00:20:33.09 You don't want to get over-dependent.
00:20:35.00 If someone helps you, don't call them every week,
00:20:36.23 especially if it's not someone that you know well.
00:20:39.24 If they give you a little bit of help,
00:20:42.02 thank them and move on.
00:20:43.10 But it doesn't mean that you can't reach out,
00:20:45.25 it's just... be careful about becoming over-dependent.
00:20:48.00 But most people do want to help,
00:20:49.15 so, I'll tell you a little story
00:20:51.19 about why Benjamin Franklin is on this slide.
00:20:53.01 It's really interesting to me.
00:20:54.15 And what... again, asking for help
00:20:56.29 is another thing that gets easier the more you do it, okay?
00:21:00.01 So, Benjamin Franklin discovered,
00:21:01.25 when he was in the Continental Congress,
00:21:03.11 that there were some guys he didn't get along with so well.
00:21:05.11 So, for someone
00:21:08.14 that really, really didn't like him,
00:21:10.09 he would go to them and ask them to borrow a book.
00:21:12.21 Now, borrowing a book in those days was a much bigger deal.
00:21:14.05 It's sort of like borrowing someone's iPad now,
00:21:16.00 because there weren't that many and they were quite expensive.
00:21:17.21 He would borrow the book,
00:21:19.07 because it was very hard to say no
00:21:21.16 to a polite request like that,
00:21:23.09 he would read it, he would give it back to the person,
00:21:24.26 tell them how smart they were for buying
00:21:26.27 such a valuable and interesting book,
00:21:28.13 he would chat with them about it,
00:21:29.29 and he would thank them profusely for the favor
00:21:31.25 that they had done for him.
00:21:33.22 Okay?
00:21:35.04 Now, the weird thing he noticed about this was that when people did this favor for him,
00:21:37.16 they liked him better.
00:21:38.23 So, when people help you,
00:21:40.28 it turns out that is a very good way of building relationships.
00:21:44.24 It doesn't mean that you wouldn't help them.
00:21:46.24 Of course people like it when you help them
00:21:49.04 and can do favors for them,
00:21:50.13 but sometimes, you know,
00:21:52.08 really just getting someone to help you
00:21:54.07 is the way to build the relationship,
00:21:55.28 and I have done this many, many times.
00:21:57.11 It was actually when I was between jobs,
00:22:00.07 before I started working at Addgene,
00:22:01.19 was really the first time I ever really had to
00:22:04.19 look for a job and really activate my network.
00:22:06.17 The first thing I did,
00:22:08.08 I went up on LinkedIn, and I put my status as,
00:22:10.02 "Looking for work".
00:22:11.23 I was laid off, it was an open thing,
00:22:13.14 I wasn't looking for a job behind the scenes.
00:22:16.05 The number of offers that came in to help me
00:22:18.22 was a huge number,
00:22:20.04 but of course the people that I really needed to talk to
00:22:21.23 were not always the ones that got in touch with me.
00:22:23.26 So, I was using my network to get
00:22:26.00 to the companies that I was interested in
00:22:27.15 and to try and get information,
00:22:28.26 and I got set up to have coffee with this one guy,
00:22:30.29 and he shows up kind of late
00:22:32.23 and he looks very frazzled,
00:22:34.16 and he's clearly... very, very clear within the first few minutes,
00:22:37.04 he is not interested in talking to me.
00:22:38.27 He's doing this as a favor to some friend,
00:22:40.19 he doesn't think I'm a match for this job that they have,
00:22:43.28 he doesn't really want to waste his time and he's incredibly busy.
00:22:46.14 So, I'm like, "Uhhggh, how am I gonna...
00:22:48.00 this is really going to be awkward.
00:22:49.10 I just gotta let this guy go."
00:22:51.00 We talked for a few minutes, he looks very tired,
00:22:53.02 you know, it becomes clear that this particular job isn't good,
00:22:56.16 there's not really an opportunity,
00:22:58.23 he doesn't really seem like he wants to go out of his way
00:23:01.10 to help me, to see if there might be a fit in the future.
00:23:03.28 It's not very productive.
00:23:05.28 Finally, I just looked at him and I said,
00:23:07.22 "You look really tired."
00:23:09.12 And he said, "I am exhausted.
00:23:11.12 My kids will not sleep. We are so tired.
00:23:14.00 We don't do anything fun anymore.
00:23:16.14 We are so exhausted.
00:23:17.25 All we do is work and not sleep,
00:23:20.00 and we can't get our kids to sleep.
00:23:21.12 We want to go to the museum this weekend
00:23:23.01 and we're just too tired,
00:23:24.19 and the kids are too complain-y about it,
00:23:26.07 and we used to love to go to the museum
00:23:28.07 and we don't do it anymore."
00:23:29.20 And I said, "Wow, that's... I know what you mean.
00:23:31.17 My kids are much older than yours,
00:23:33.01 but I've been there.
00:23:34.21 I had, you know, two kids two years apart."
00:23:36.09 I said, "But have you played Museum Scavenger Hunt?"
00:23:39.28 He goes, "What's Museum Scavenger Hunt?"
00:23:41.17 I said, "Well, me and my husband really love museums
00:23:44.00 and it's very hard to take small children to an art museum,
00:23:46.27 but what we do is make them a list of things to find in the museum...
00:23:50.17 cows, guys with pointy beards,
00:23:52.21 women with one eye...
00:23:54.09 if you know what the collection is like a little bit,
00:23:56.18 it's pretty easy to do this scavenger hunt thing,
00:23:59.20 and they get a quarter every time they find one of the things on their list,
00:24:01.26 and then they go to the gift shop at the end
00:24:04.07 and they get to spend it.
00:24:05.19 It doesn't buy you then whole day,
00:24:07.02 but you get about three hours if your list is good."
00:24:08.21 And he said, "This is awesome.
00:24:10.09 I am so excited about this.
00:24:11.24 I can't wait to go and try this."
00:24:13.03 And, sure enough, that guy emailed me a week later
00:24:15.14 and said, "We played Museum Scavenger Hunt.
00:24:16.26 Me and my wife had a really great time
00:24:18.16 at the museum
00:24:20.12 and the kids had a great time and it was just a fun afternoon.
00:24:22.07 Thank you so much." Right?
00:24:24.01 So, instead of that really awful situation,
00:24:25.27 like coffee that you want to get out of,
00:24:27.17 I turned it into, you know, a way to help,
00:24:29.25 and for sure that guy's going to
00:24:32.29 much more willing to help me if I contacted him again next time.
00:24:35.26 So, think about how you can help people in ways,
00:24:37.14 and how they can help you.
00:24:39.02 Really, people enjoy that exchange.
00:24:42.13 So, how can I help? That's how I see networking.
00:24:45.17 The minute I meet someone, I don't think what they can do for me,
00:24:47.19 I think what I can do for them.
00:24:49.10 And it may feel to you like you don't have much to offer yet,
00:24:52.13 but I hope the story I just told you tells you
00:24:55.15 that everybody has something to offer.
00:24:56.24 You may have information, you may have a skill,
00:24:58.16 you may be the only one in the world that is good at...
00:25:01.13 is as good as you are at injecting into that type of cell.
00:25:04.25 Whatever it is,
00:25:07.02 focus on the ways in which you can help.
00:25:08.14 And I don't keep score
00:25:10.24 -- I don't say, like, I helped you so you help me.
00:25:12.11 Really, what goes around comes around.
00:25:14.15 do what I can for people,
00:25:16.03 I help them, I connect them when I can,
00:25:17.27 and I give them the time that I can,
00:25:19.14 and I do say no as well
00:25:21.15 -- everybody has to say no sometimes --
00:25:22.23 but it's really important to
00:25:25.21 just be in a mode where you do things for people
00:25:27.09 and help them.
00:25:28.22 It's really the greatest way to build relationships.
00:25:31.00 So, okay, you've met someone,
00:25:33.23 maybe you've got their card,
00:25:35.07 maybe they did you a favor,
00:25:36.26 maybe they connected you to someone
00:25:38.26 or gave you some advice
00:25:41.02 or gave you a paper that was important.
00:25:42.16 You can say thank you, you can send an email...
00:25:44.10 these days... we didn't have email when I started networking,
00:25:46.16 you know, we had to actually call people
00:25:49.00 and talk to them all the time.
00:25:50.10 That continues to be an important thing,
00:25:52.15 but email is great for that,
00:25:53.29 staying in touch with people, social media.
00:25:55.09 Ummm... you know, you can follow up with them,
00:25:58.14 something else you've thought of,
00:25:59.27 make a note that this person is interested in a specific topic
00:26:02.10 and when you see a paper on that topic
00:26:04.06 you can send it to them.
00:26:05.17 Maybe you want to share preprints or protocols with them?
00:26:07.06 They may be able to give you very good advice
00:26:09.04 about your next steps in your experiments,
00:26:10.17 and enjoy helping you, as I said before.
00:26:13.21 Another great thing is, if people work in companies
00:26:16.09 or if they're in a lab,
00:26:18.02 you can follow their PubMed publication records
00:26:20.07 or you can follow a newsletter like the Fierce Series
00:26:24.00 -- there's FiercePharma, there's FierceBiotech,
00:26:25.21 it's a daily newsletter --
00:26:27.05 and when you see something happen at their company
00:26:30.16 -- and also, actually, LinkedIn does a very good job of this as well --
00:26:31.22 you can email them when something good happens.
00:26:33.12 So, when I see that someone's company
00:26:35.07 just landed in 50 million dollars in venture funding,
00:26:37.06 I send them a note.
00:26:38.20 They're celebrating!
00:26:40.23 Sometimes I get invited to the celebrations, which is fun as well.
00:26:43.14 It's another way of meeting people and developing relationships,
00:26:45.05 because whenever you're celebrating with someone...
00:26:46.29 that's why you go to weddings, bar mitzvahs, you know,
00:26:50.10 baby parties,
00:26:52.21 it's because celebration is a way for people to bond.
00:26:54.10 So, email your connections when good things happen.
00:26:57.10 It's a natural way of following up.
00:27:00.18 You also can stay in touch on LinkedIn,
00:27:02.11 follow the people that you're LinkedIn with,
00:27:04.06 comment when they comment... not...
00:27:07.25 again, don't stalk them, that gets a little creepy,
00:27:10.01 but ummm... you know,
00:27:11.20 if something good happens in their life
00:27:13.22 or they place a comment, you know,
00:27:15.09 that you think is good on LinkedIn,
00:27:16.26 you can comment on that.
00:27:18.07 It is relationship building.
00:27:19.21 You have to still see people in person
00:27:21.07 -- don't get me wrong --
00:27:23.02 you have to do those coffees and those,
00:27:25.07 you know, actual in-person conference meetings,
00:27:27.00 but this is a way of staying in touch.
00:27:29.07 A good way to get to know people
00:27:31.11 is to go to the same organizations' events over and over again.
00:27:33.07 So, for example, I'm in the Healthcare Women's Business Association.
00:27:37.29 I've been going to their events for many, many years.
00:27:39.25 I know a lot of the people there already,
00:27:41.16 and of course I volunteered in that organization.
00:27:44.14 So, when I go, it's not uncomfortable,
00:27:46.09 because I'm there reconnecting
00:27:48.01 with all kinds of friends
00:27:49.22 and people that I've seen for many years.
00:27:51.08 So, that's a very good way...
00:27:52.28 so, instead of organization hopping,
00:27:55.02 pick one that you want to get involved in
00:27:57.11 that jives with you and that speaks to you.
00:28:00.06 A great way to stay in touch with academic connections,
00:28:03.11 or industry as well,
00:28:05.07 is to invite them to speak at a conference
00:28:06.20 or in your department.
00:28:07.24 So, you have a lot of power when you organize a panel.
00:28:09.18 If you have get yourself into a position
00:28:11.13 where you're organizing a panel at a conference
00:28:13.11 or your department has a seminar series,
00:28:15.08 you get to meet all the interesting people that come through.
00:28:18.09 Maybe you get to take them to lunch.
00:28:19.25 That seems like it would be time consuming,
00:28:21.20 but that is time well spent.
00:28:23.01 So, those may be volunteer positions
00:28:25.18 that you want to look for and seek out.
00:28:27.08 So, where else can you practice?
00:28:29.23 If you don't know the majority of postdocs in your department,
00:28:33.02 make that your first goal.
00:28:34.18 Start meeting them when you go to talk,
00:28:36.09 sit down next to someone you don't know.
00:28:37.29 You know, you yourself
00:28:41.01 should be a speaker at a conference
00:28:43.09 or whenever you can arrange it.
00:28:44.23 Do an informal speaker series
00:28:47.18 for postdocs to practice in your department.
00:28:49.22 You're going to get to meet everybody that way.
00:28:51.09 Be in your postdoc association board.
00:28:54.00 Join the National Post-doc Association Board.
00:28:55.25 There are professional organizations.
00:28:58.02 Depending on what city you're in,
00:29:00.25 there are all kinds of networking opportunities.
00:29:02.17 You know, go online,
00:29:04.16 you have no excuse because these things are
00:29:06.29 easy to find online these days,
00:29:08.20 and the more you look for those opportunities,
00:29:10.10 the more you'll find them.
00:29:11.19 There's also postdoc volunteer positions
00:29:13.14 at the professional societies,
00:29:15.25 whether it's the AAI or the ASCB
00:29:19.06 or whatever leadership roles you want,
00:29:21.13 there's often opportunities to volunteer there,
00:29:23.26 and it's a great way to meet people early in your career
00:29:26.28 that will stay your colleagues later on
00:29:28.29 in your area of science.
00:29:30.24 So, let's talk about social media for one second
00:29:34.02 before I wrap up.
00:29:35.11 So, there is nothing that takes the place of getting to know people in person.
00:29:38.20 I don't care what anybody says,
00:29:40.19 I may be a little bit older,
00:29:42.11 I'm very, very social media savvy,
00:29:44.02 I tweet, I have a very active LinkedIn account,
00:29:46.06 I actually tweet for two accounts
00:29:47.28 -- I tweet as myself and I tweet as Addgene --
00:29:49.29 so I know how to do all of that stuff.
00:29:51.25 But there is nothing in the world that replaces meeting people.
00:29:54.16 However, you really should know that
00:29:58.26 having a social media presence can be a big advantage
00:30:00.26 to developing relationships
00:30:02.17 and certainly to a career search,
00:30:04.07 particularly in industry.
00:30:06.02 So, I shouldn't have to say any more about this:
00:30:08.07 don't put dumb stuff on Facebook -- enough said.
00:30:11.02 The world is stalking you,
00:30:12.21 the world is looking at your life online.
00:30:14.15 You can lose... you don't get a job with Facebook,
00:30:16.12 but you can easily lose a job because of Facebook,
00:30:18.07 so please be careful.
00:30:20.03 You have to have a LinkedIn account
00:30:21.22 if you're interested in moving to industry
00:30:23.10 and for many academic types of positions.
00:30:25.29 And in Europe people are using something called Viadeo,
00:30:28.20 so you may have to have both,
00:30:30.04 depending on where you live or where your focus is.
00:30:31.19 I talk to people, I meet with them,
00:30:34.22 they tell me they're looking for jobs in industry,
00:30:36.16 and when I say,
00:30:38.05 "Well, how does your LinkedIn profile look?"
00:30:39.19 and I may know already, because I've checked it out
00:30:41.16 and I know it looks bad,
00:30:43.03 and they say, "Augghh, I hate LinkedIn."
00:30:44.23 Well, I'm here to tell you,
00:30:47.04 you have no choice.
00:30:48.09 If you're interested in having a job in industry,
00:30:50.06 people are going to look at that,
00:30:51.21 and it should look as good or better than your resume.
00:30:53.23 So, feel free to look me up
00:30:56.22 to see what I mean by that,
00:30:58.09 but it's very, very important that, if you're job hunting,
00:31:00.13 that you've taken a professional turn using LinkedIn.
00:31:02.27 Put up a professional, clear picture.
00:31:04.22 This is not Facebook.
00:31:06.00 It's not for you, you know, sitting with your dog in the yard.
00:31:07.25 Get a picture of yourself taken
00:31:10.02 that makes you look like a professional.
00:31:11.19 You can be in the lab,
00:31:13.06 you know, you don't have to have a headshot,
00:31:14.18 but have it be a professional picture.
00:31:17.13 Invite people that you're really met
00:31:19.13 that you want to stay in touch with,
00:31:20.25 to connect with you on LinkedIn,
00:31:22.11 but don't invite people that you haven't met.
00:31:23.20 That's just stalking; it's creepy.
00:31:25.09 You can have someone else connect you.
00:31:26.29 Don't ever send someone a LinkedIn invite text
00:31:30.15 that's generic.
00:31:31.27 I've discovered that LinkedIn recently will send out invitations
00:31:34.03 for you that just say something very generic.
00:31:36.08 People, myself included... I never answer those.
00:31:39.04 People have to tell me why they're connecting with me
00:31:41.05 and how they know me.
00:31:43.01 It's just another way of increasing the relationship
00:31:45.13 as opposed to an anonymous tap.
00:31:47.02 Most people reject those anonymous taps,
00:31:49.01 so really try and avoid that.
00:31:51.23 There's a ton of information on the internet
00:31:53.17 about the proper use of LinkedIn
00:31:55.13 and suggestions and ideas,
00:31:56.23 and in social media.
00:31:58.08 So, it's a good way to brand yourself.
00:31:59.25 Many scientists now are creating blogs
00:32:01.28 and other ways of sharing information,
00:32:04.09 creating their personal brand.
00:32:06.14 You can google me; I have a very obvious brand online.
00:32:10.03 And so, think about that as an opportunity
00:32:13.13 but not a have-to.
00:32:15.10 But having a professional profile on LinkedIn
00:32:17.24 -- that's probably a have-to.
00:32:18.28 Finally, I just want to remind you of a few tips.
00:32:22.13 We all have something to offer,
00:32:25.12 so the more you... you can offer in a networking situation,
00:32:28.14 that will grow.
00:32:29.22 So, that may not mean that the...
00:32:31.09 you know, the Nobel Prize-winning speaker,
00:32:33.00 you may not have something to offer her,
00:32:35.13 but a fellow postdoc in your lab,
00:32:37.29 you may have something to offer.
00:32:39.15 It's something that builds over time.
00:32:42.24 So, start with the simpler networking interactions,
00:32:45.23 the ones with peers,
00:32:47.17 and it will allow you to work up to making other types of connections.
00:32:49.25 I know that you're busy.
00:32:51.17 I've been there; I've done that.
00:32:53.12 You have to make time to stay in touch with people.
00:32:56.02 You should still be in touch with your graduate,
00:32:58.07 you know... your graduate lab,
00:33:01.18 your colleagues, your adviser,
00:33:03.18 anybody you collaborated with...
00:33:05.24 you have to find ways to stay in touch with people,
00:33:08.16 because it's just going to be too important later.
00:33:10.27 One secret of networking, again,
00:33:13.13 you don't have to network and stay in touch with people
00:33:15.20 that you don't like.
00:33:17.20 So, focus on the people with whom you develop a rapport,
00:33:19.20 that you have a lot in common with.
00:33:20.29 They may be culturally similar to you,
00:33:22.15 or culturally different,
00:33:23.21 but people that you like talking to.
00:33:25.13 Those are the people that I see over and over,
00:33:27.17 and that end up being my most valuable connections.
00:33:30.02 One good networking secret is,
00:33:32.11 be memorable.
00:33:33.18 So, I'm pretty memorable.
00:33:35.01 I'm 5 feet tall, I have bright red hair,
00:33:37.02 I'm not very quiet, so... a
00:33:40.01 nd usually when I go to a networking event I start out by having
00:33:42.03 a story that I'm ready to be a bit open about myself.
00:33:43.21 I have two kids,
00:33:46.02 they're 19 and 21,
00:33:47.15 they're a source of endless stories for me.
00:33:49.00 Many people can connect to you
00:33:51.05 if they hear what your kids are up to,
00:33:52.27 what's going on in your life.
00:33:54.11 So, I know some people are very shy
00:33:56.06 and this may not be your natural tendency,
00:33:58.03 but come up with one story about yourself that's personal,
00:34:00.11 that you want to share
00:34:02.05 -- something that's difficult in the lab,
00:34:04.12 something that's troubling you in your family.
00:34:06.00 We're planning a trip to Greece.
00:34:07.18 Everybody I meet these days,
00:34:09.02 I ask them what do they know about Greece,
00:34:10.11 because we're trying to figure out where we want to go.
00:34:12.09 It gets the conversation started.
00:34:13.21 It makes it much easier to get to know people
00:34:16.12 if you have something to say.
00:34:17.27 So, be prepared, every day,
00:34:19.28 with what you're going to talk about today,
00:34:22.21 and it will be a little easier.
00:34:23.25 And so, my final advice to you is,
00:34:25.11 try something new.
00:34:26.17 You can always go back to the old way you were doing things,
00:34:29.15 but I think that, with some practice, with some of these tools and tricks
00:34:32.07 that I've given you,
00:34:33.09 you'll get a lot of benefit in your scientific relationships
00:34:35.06 and also in your career.
00:34:37.08 Thanks for listening,
00:34:38.25 and you can reach me through social media
00:34:40.22 if you have questions or comments about this presentation.
00:34:43.02 Take care.

This Talk

Speaker: Joanne Kamens

Audience:

Educators of H. School / Intro Undergrad
Student
Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
Researcher

Recorded: July 2013

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Networking is one of the most important career building activities a person can undertake. Many people think networking involves formal events, however in her iBiology talk, Joanne Kamens discusses how this is often not the case. There are opportunities to build connections everywhere you go, and Kamens gives strategies and advice on how to build and maintain relationships in a variety of ways. This seminar was co-sponsored by the American Society for Cell Biology Committee for Postdocs and Students.

Speaker Bio

Joanne Kamens

Joanne Kamens is the Executive Director of Addgene (https://www.addgene.org), a non-profit global plasmid repository that collects and distributes plasmids and other research reagents for scientists. Before joining Addgene, Dr. Kamens received her PhD from Harvard University, and spent 20 years in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. Dr. Kamens founded the Massachusetts chapter of the Association… Continue Reading