Career Development
Nicole Buist, PhD
Senior Director
Merck & Co.
Kenilworth, New Jersey
Ronald Smith, PhD, FAAPS
Principal
Pharmawyze
York, Pennsylvania
Anthony Leone, PhD
Executive Director-Head Analytical Development and Attribute Sciences
BMS
Tapan Das, PhD, FAAPS
Senior Director
Bristol Myers Squibb
Warren, New Jersey
Jing Ling, PhD
Associate Principal Scientist
Merck & Co., Inc.
Strategize career can help strategically prepare for employment and successfully navigate career direction. The best way to approach your path to career success is following and figuring out strategies that professionals use in life and shape them according to your needs to help advance your professional goals. In a competitive landscape, it is important to explore what you are good at, set up your goals, evaluate knowledge gaps, increase your professional network, utilize scientific training, and maximize your potential. This session will focus on strategies to build up successful professional started as bench pharmaceutical scientists and utilize the skillset to build effective career. This session aims to touch base upon diversifying career strategies, effective communication at different circumstances, expectations from hiring managers, taking feedback, and push back stereotypes. This session will provide those thought-provoking points to attendees to help them with the pursuit of identifying the right career strategies and get ready for the successful development.