At the University of Dundee in Scotland, the generic-skills programme has a rather specific aim: to prepare young scientists for a challenging employment landscape. Building on its success, the programme has added a series of lunchtime workshops with truncated versions of some courses that emphasize one-to-one instruction in subjects ranging from tweaking a CV to matching skills and experience to jobs outside academia. More than 50% of Dundee's life-sciences graduate students and 40% of its life-science postdocs have taken the full-blown courses in the two years they have been available, says training coordinator Christine Milburn.
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