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FindingYourNorth.com
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Finding Your North A Strategic Balanced Approach
to Discovering Your Perfect Science Career

• Frederick Moore, PhD
• Cofounder Principal, PotentSci LLC
• President Chair, Building Diversity in Science
• Compact for Faculty Diversity Conference
• October 28, 2006

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Introducing FYN

• Co-editors of FYN
• Frederick Moore, PhD
• Michael Penn, Jr., MD, PhD
• FYN is a collection of chapters from 10 authors
  with diverse personal and professional
  backgrounds
• Overall goal To help individuals discover their
  purpose in life, while utilizing a background in
  science to achieve their perfect career.

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When you think about your future major,
graduate/ professional school, career- what comes
to mind?
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When you think about your future major,
graduate/ professional school, career- what comes
to mind?
Challenging
Money
Happiness
FEAR
Potential
Expectations
Empowered
Positive
Hard
Stress
Choices
Pressure
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What is the Concept of FYN?

• Chapter 13 Discovering Your Purpose,
  Finding Your North
• We first would say that North is a state of
  mind. When you find your North, you have
  developed a state within yourself that is at
  peace a place where you have unconditional
  tranquility in response to the actions,
  challenges, or obstacles that life presents to
  you. Our second description of North is an
  understanding of self. When you find your North,
  you have a deep understanding of your strengths
  and weaknesses you also have a deep
  understanding of the type of experiences and
  outcomes you want from life, and you are
  utilizing your talents to make a difference that
  only you are equipped to make.

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How Do You Align with Your North?
N

• negative factors
• comparing yourself to others
• self-doubt
• imbalance
• negative stereotypes
• living for others expectations
• herd mentality
• bad habits
• stress
• lack of self-awareness
• fear

positive factors understanding your
strengths understanding your innate learning
style self-competitiveness self-awareness confiden
ce faith balance
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Personal Empowerment
Intellectual Self-Awareness
Emotional Self-Awareness
Self-Care Tools
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What Factors Drive Your Motivation

• Recognition
• Competitiveness
• Completing a goal
• Fear
• Benefits to society
• Money

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How Do You Overcome Challenges?

• Who, what, and where do you draw strength
  from?
• Fighter versus Victim mentality
• Developing a decision-making system that
• evaluates external inputs ones own
  desires
• Creating a support system

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Emotional Self-Awareness

• Intuition versus Logic
• Addressing past issues
• Opening up your creative channels

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Intellectual Self-Awareness

• Understanding ones thought process (audio,
  visual, kinesthetic).
• Questions to ask.
• Do you tape record your lectures?
• Do you draw pictures of things you want to
  understand?
• When things make sense to you does it feel right?
• Do you try to place yourself in another persons
  perspective when they are telling you a personal
  situation to understand them?
• Do you learn better from a book or do you need to
  attend lectures?

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Intellectual Self-Awareness

• Understanding ones innate strengths
• Questions to ask are you a(n).
• Achiever
• Adaptable
• Communicator
• Strategic
• Developer
• Focus
• Futuristic

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Tools to Develop Potential

• Mental confidence
• Interactive reading
• Visualizing success
• Memory techniques
• Problem-solving techniques
• How to learn from others (study groups)

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Self-Care Tools

• Take internal assessments to develop
  self-awareness
• Be aware of how you deal with challenging life
  situations and stress. What is your coping
  mechanism?
• Do you drink alcohol?
• Do you overeat?
• Do you exercise?
• Talk to your friends?
• Have sex?
• Watch a lot of tv?
• Withdraw from people and activities that you
  enjoy?
• Is the way you cope with stress and pain healthy
  or not? What are the consequences in the
  short-term and in the long-term?

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Five Step Plan to Maintain Balance

• Know what nurtures you
• Schedule of self-care
• Identify what to avoid
• Decide when to be counterculture
• In case of emergency, break glass

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Techniques to Actualize Your Perfect Career

• Utilize Your Resources
• Networking
• Extracurricular Activities
• Internships
• Informational Interviews
• Websites

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Book References

• Finding Your North Self-Help Strategies for
  Science-
• Related Careers, edited by Frederick Moore
  Michael
• Penn
• Now, Discover Your Strengths, authored by
  Marcus
• Buckingham Donald Clifton

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Job References
www.biospace.com www.aapspharmaceutica.com
www.medzilla.com www.cen-chemjobs.org/ www.projmg
r.org www.sciencejobs.com www.cen-chemjobs.org
www.ispe-sf.org recruit.sciencemag.org/ www.pda
.org www.nextwave.org www.hirehealth.com www.d
iahome.org www.stke.org www.aapspharmaceutica.co
m www.sage.org www.craigslist.org
www.newscientistjobs.com www.sciencejobs.com www.
naturejobs.com www.sciencecareers.org www.bioco
mpare.com www.genomeweb.com www.dnajobs.com www
.drugdev123.com www.bioview.com
www.scienceboard.net www.centerwatch.com/jobwatch
www.scitechrecruiters
.com/html/open.htm www.aapspharmaceutica.com/care
erCenter/job_listing.asp