Five tips for making the most of career fairs
Career fairs can help you explore different career paths and connect with employers. To help you prepare and make the most of the event, we have put together 5 top tips.
Skills Spotlight: Project Management with AI – Blending Human Insight and Machine Support
In our EMBL Skills & Careers Webinar in October 2025, Jacobo Miranda, Bioinformatics Training Officer at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), explored how early career researchers can integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into practical aspects of their daily work, including idea…
Event Highlights: 2nd EMBL Industry Day Career Panel
Post-academic industry careers in focus The landscape of scientific careers is rapidly evolving, with industry offering increasingly diverse and rewarding roles for highly skilled researchers. To facilitate this transition and maximize the visibility of corporate opportunities, EICAT and CPP…
Skills Spotlight: Communicating Complexity – How to Explain Complex Ideas in Simple Words
In our EMBL Skills & Careers Webinar in July 2025, Shreya Ghosh, Communications Editor at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), shared strategies and tips for writing texts that are both scientifically accurate and engaging, while remaining accessible to audiences with or without a…
Preparing for an academic interview – a career panel discussion (Part II)
This blog post summarises a career panel discussion with four PIs from France, Spain, Malta and the Netherlands about what search committees expect from candidates at the interview stage.
Skills for a scientific career
This post summarizes the preliminary results from a survey we ran focused on the skills for a scientific career.
Preparing for an academic interview – a survey (Part I)
This post summaries results from a survey we ran with PIs on what search committees are looking for.
How do group leaders recruit postdocs?
This post summarizes the results of a survey we ran on how group leaders recruit postdocs.
Want to spend time on your career planning, and don’t know where to start?
This post provides a short guide to things you can do to get started in planning your career. It was written at the start of the coronavirus pandemic lockdowns in March 2020 but is relevant at any time.
What to include in your CV – an international perspective
Following a twitter debate on whether photos should be included in CVs, the EMBL Fellows' Career Service started a survey to provide evidence-based guidance for life scientists. This post summarizes the results from that survey.
