Careers

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Careers in Chemistry Workshop Session 1
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Workshop Objectives
Provide Perspective and Awareness on

• Careers in Industry
• Effective Job Search
• Value added Skills and
• How to Develop them.

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Workshop Roadmap

• Careers in Chemistry.What should you Expect?
• Job Search Process(Resume, Interviews)
• Skill Session 1
• Skill Session 2

Feb 11 Feb 25 Mar 11 Mar 25
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Todays Content
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Perspective

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Influences on the Perspective of Students
University Influence
Individuals Experience

• Mission of the Department
• Mission of the University
• Location
• Applied Sciences Departments
• Advisors Connective-ness
• Consortiums

• Industrial Experience
• Coops, Summer jobs
• Research Topic
• Parental Heritage
• Personal Experience

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Science in Academia and Business
Science in the Public Interest
Science For Commercial Value

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Science in Academia and Business
Science in the Public Interest
Science For Commercial Value
Commercial Value Drives some Unique Skills/Values

• Cross Functional Interfaces
• AccountabilitySafety, Financial, Timing
• Intellectual Property
• Business Skills
• Communication to Non-Scientists

Explore Further these Values/Skills Today
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Education and Career
Academics
Undergrad
Grad Student
Post Doc
Industry
Perception
Career
Education
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Education and Career
Academics
Undergrad
Grad Student
Post Doc
Industry
New Science
Reality
Skills
Education
Learning
Patents
Business
Interpersonal
Learning Accelerates and Diversifies
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Education and Career
Academics
Undergrad
Grad Student
Post Doc
Industry
Reality
Career
Your Career Starts Earlier than You May
Think Need to be Career Minded
Early Understanding the Goal Allows you to take
Action
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Corporate Culture Plays a Significant Role

• Values are Similar between Companies, but
• Corporate Culture and Market will Influence
• Stated Corporate Objectives
• Big vs Small
• Market and Product Maturity
• Global vs Domestic

• Today we have 3 Different Perspectives/Cultures
• DowAgroChemicals
• PGConsumer Goods
• GEMaterials

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3 Perspectives from Kevin, Katherine and Todd

• Career Background
• Transition to Industry Experience
• Skills/Values of Their Business
• What would have done differently

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Kevin Meyer-Dow AgroSciences Senior Research
Chemist
Education Background
Job Responsibilities

• Synthesize molecules
• Interact with Biologists
• Write/Provide Tech support to Patents
• Area Safety Focal Point

• B.S. Chem, Truman State Univ.,
• Kirksville, MO (1994)
• Ph.D. Organic, IU (1999)
• Total Synthesis of ()-Amphidinolide K
• Professor David R. Williams

What do Other Chemists do?
What Kind of Chemistry?

• Natural Product derivatization
• Heterocyclic chemistry
• new methodologies
• Field Sample Preparation
• (100 gram scale)
• Combinatorial chemistry

• Prepare Field Samples
• Radiolabeling
• Biochemistry (assays/metabolic fate)
• Formulation Chemists
• Computational Chemists
• Analytical Support
• Environmental fate/purity determination

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Kevin Meyer-Dow AgroSciences Senior Research
Chemist
Surprises I Found in my Transition to DAS

• Chemistry Surprises
• Cheaper to purchase reagents
• Stereochemistry
• Yield doesnt matter (discovery)
• Super-pure, super-dry reagents
• not needed

• Emphasis on Safety
• Company is liable
• Peer review for larger scales
• Bioactive Chemistry!!
• Professional responsibility

Challenges I had to Overcome in My Transition to
DAS

• Meetings, meetings and, oh yeah, more meetings
  (time management)
• Realize you are looked as an expert in your
  field/area of chemistry by
• others

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Kevin Meyer-Dow AgroSciences Senior Research
Chemist
What Skills or Values does DAS Value In a
Professional Chemist
A Skill I had to Learn

• Being a Team Player
• Looking out for 1

• Ability to work with others
• Decision making abilities
• Productivity
• Able to see The Big Picture
• Self-motivated
• Question dogma

What Less Successful Chemists Generally Lack at
DAS

• Interpersonal Skills
• Motivation
• Unable to make good, timely
• decisions

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Kevin Meyer-Dow AgroSciences Senior Research
Chemist
Things I wish I had Understood about Careers
while I was at IU

• You dont get promoted, you promote yourself
  through good work.
• Leadership isnt about dictating the work of
  others, its about influencing others
• with your credibility
• You are not just a chemist making molecules, you
  are a scientist in your field of
• work.

What I would have done Differently to be better
Prepared

• Time managementwork on being organized.
• Emphasize communication skills(writing/presenting
  work).
• Be more of a resource for the group to develop
  leadership skills.

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Katherine Glasgow-GEAM Product Developer
Education Background
Career Path

• BPA Process Chemist (2000-2001)
• Lexan Process Chemist (2001-2002)
• Lexan Product Developer (2002-)

• B.S. Chem, UNC-Chapel Hill (1995)
• Oxidative cleavage of DNA by TM complexes
• Professor Holden Thorp
• Ph.D. Inorganic, IUB (2000)
• Organometallic synthesis, catalysis
• Professor Malcolm Chisholm

Non Chemistry Responsibilities
Chemistry I Currently Practice

• Application Development
• Implementation of New Products
• and Processes (scale-up)
• Patent activities
• Recruiting
• Prioritizing work for others

• Polymer Chemistry
• Stabilization (hydrolysis, etc.)
• Biological interactions (proteins)

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Katherine Glasgow-GEAM Product Developer
Surprises I Found in my Transition to GEAM

• Scale increases the difficulty
• Your work depends much more
• on other peoples help

• Problem solving is half anticipation
• Office work can still be data-based

Challenges I had to Overcome in My Transition to
GEAM

• Laws of Thermodynamics hold, but everything else
  is different!
• To be successful, you have to convince other
  people to help you.
• Influencing peers is an important skill.

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Katherine Glasgow-GEAM Product Developer
What Skills or Values does GEAM Value In a
Professional Chemist
A Skill I had to Learn

• The right questions to ask

• Communication
• Analytical nature
• Decisiveness
• Creativity
• Productivity

What Less Successful Chemists Generally Lack at
GEAM

• Initiative
• Confidence
• Ability to work in a team

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Katherine Glasgow-GEAM Product Developer
Things I wish I had Understood about Careers
while I was at IU

• The things you learn along the way, not the
  thesis content, form the foundation
• upon which your career and future research
  will be built.
• Leadership shown outside the lab is also
  relevant in the interviewing process.
• The most distinguishing feature of a graduate
  career is not just the number of
• publications, but what creative and original
  ideas you bring to your group.

What I would have done Differently to be better
Prepared

• I would have done more research on the companies
  with whom I
• interviewed.
• I would have talked to former group members to
• Better understand industrial chemistry careers
• Know what to look for (and what to avoid) in a
  job.

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Todd A. Brugel Senior Scientist, PG
Pharmaceuticals
Education Background
Career Path

• Ph.D. Organic, Indiana (2000)
• (Prof. David R. Williams)
• Efforts towards the total synthesis of
• Zoanthamine alkaloids
• Post-Doc., CSU (2000-01)
• (Prof. Lou S. Hegedus)
• Chromium carbene photochemistry
• for the synthesis of dioxocyclams

• Scientist, Medicinal Chemistry
• PG Pharmaceuticals (2001-2003)
• Senior Scientist, Medicinal Chem
• PG Pharmaceuticals (2003- )

Non Chemistry Responsibilities
Chemistry I Currently Practice

• Managing Others
• New Project Development
• Organize Departmental Seminar
• Series
• On-Campus Recruiting
• Core Function Communication

• Multi-Step Organic Synthesis
• Heterocyclic Chemistry
• Peptide Chemistry

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Todd A. Brugel Senior Scientist, PG
Pharmaceuticals
Surprises I Found in my Transition to PGP

• Medicinal chemistry very different
• from Natural Product chemistry
• Intellectual property drives project
• direction

• Patents more important than
• publications
• Personal Conduct as important
• as scientific output

Challenges I had to Overcome in My Transition to
PGP

• Turnover of final compounds, more important than
  efficiency of
• individual steps
• Balancing importance of maintaining corporate
  line with pursuit of
• scientific achievement

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Todd A. Brugel Senior Scientist, PG
Pharmaceuticals
A Skill I had to Learn
What Skills or Values does PG Value In a
Professional Chemist

• Principles of Pharmaceutical
• Science
• Biological Assays
• Pharmacokinetics
• Efficacy

• Leadership
• Diversity/Collaboration
• Decisiveness
• Innovation
• Communication
• Technical Mastery

What Less Successful Chemists Generally Lack at
PG

• Focus
• Sense of Team
• Ability to adapt to change

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Todd A. Brugel Senior Scientist, PG
Pharmaceuticals
Things I wish I had Understood about Careers
while I was at IU

• Not enough to just be a good scientist, must
  embrace corporate values and
• principles
• You dont have to be industry experienced to be
  an industry leader
• Will be asked often to evaluate your peers for
  performance evaluations as
• well as recognitions

What I would have done Differently to be better
Prepared

• Worked more with individuals in other areas
  (Analytical, Biology, Molecular
• Modeling) to become more complete scientist
• Balanced research with more community activities

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Panel Discussion
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Common Values/Skills for an Industrial Career
Values
Skills

• CommunicationUp, down, sideways
• Interpersonal Ability
• Team Work, Collaboration
• Influencing SkillsPeers, Functions
• Motivating Others
• Decision MakingSelf Confidence
• Ability to Change
• Self Motivated
• Responsibility
• Productive.Time Management
• See the Big PictureVision
• Prioritization/Planning

• Communication
• Patents
• Implications of Scale
• Recruiting
• Safety
• Technical Mastery

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Common Values/Skills for an Industrial Career
Values
Skills

• CommunicationUp, down, sideways
• Interpersonal Ability
• Team Work, Collaboration
• Influencing SkillsPeers, Functions
• Motivating Others
• Decision MakingSelf Confidence
• Ability to Change
• Self Motivated
• Responsibility
• Productive.Time Management
• See the Big PictureVision
• Prioritization/Planning/Focus

• Communication
• Patents
• Implications of Scale
• Recruiting
• Safety
• Technical Mastery

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Few Key Take Away Concepts

• Industry/Business Careers Require a Large Set
• Of Values and Skills to be Successful
• The Emphasis is Probably Different than your
  Experience
• These Skills need to be developed early in your
  Career
• Your Career has already started as a Graduate
  Student

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Next Step

• You are working on this Product called You
• Technical Credentials
• Professional Credentials
• Next Step will be to talk about How you Sell
  this Product
• Resume
• Initial Interview
• Site Interview

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Workshop Roadmap

• Careers in Chemistry.What should you Expect?
• Job Search Process(Resume, Interviews)
• Skill Session 1
• Skill Session 2

Feb 11 Feb 25 Mar 11 Mar 25