Career Specific Development

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Flamingo™ is SciPhD’s web application that:

  • Guides you in finding jobs, importing those job descriptions, analyzing the job descriptions to identify the critical technical, business, and social skills, relates those skills to your own experiences and accomplishments, and generates a targeted resume for that job.  
  • Helps you select a career
  • Helps you develop a career development plan
  • Helps you find a job now

All University of Pittsburgh trainees are eligible for a free, permanent license to SciPhD’s web application Flamingo™!

Find jobs in the US and beyond at this versatile site that allows you to also search for international-friendly jobs and internships; build a network; and view webinars tailored for the needs of international trainees.

An interactive online tool that can be used to help you figure out your career goals.

Easily-searchable database of resources for all bioscience trainees, broken up into a taxonomy of major themes and related sub-themes, that include books, other readings, podcasts, videos, simulations, games, and more.

The NIH Office of Intramural Training & Education (OITE) maintains a careers blog that offers guidance with career planning and the job search process.

Offered by the ICRE and the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), the CTS Scholars Program provides courses, seminars, workshops, and experiential training to build essential translational research skills in team science, leadership, stakeholder engagement, communication, and moving innovations to commercialization.

The ICRE seeks to improve health outcomes, practice, and policy by creating an equitable, inclusive environment dedicated to educating the next generation of clinical and translational researchers and medical educators.