by Damien | Mar 16, 2015 | EDC Blog, Management
“I applied to a dozen academic positions, without any luck,” said Jon, an aspiring P.I. “Time to go on tour,” I said. I hear this all of the time from postdocs who apply to academic postings. If they don’t get an interview, they usually say they’ll just wait till the...
by Damien | Aug 6, 2014 | EDC Blog
So recently I was interviewed by a dear friend and an amazing business partner, Alex Kuhn. I was really honored, but most impressed with his motivational style of interviewing. He lead the discussion very casually and got some great information about the steps and...
by Damien | Jan 7, 2014 | EDC Blog
Sometimes we have no time to listen to other people’s problems, especially if it seems like an emotional rant. I know, we as scientists think that people have to get to the point and stop wasting time, but we forget that we’re talking to people. People...
by Damien | Dec 2, 2013 | EDC Blog
This is one of the challenging topics I’ve experienced for the past two decades in biomedical research, or just in science, in general. For a long time I thought I was an awkward conversationalist, but I found that it happened to be the environment that I was...