投稿日: 2018/08/05 5:44:24

A career building seminar was held as a project of the NIG Office for Female Researcher Support. We stayed in Izu-Nagaoka for two days and one night in the form of a training camp.

Our aim was to share useful information on job hunting in academia, especially about "personnel recruitment", among men and women who wish to live as researchers. On the first day (first half), the nostalgic faces of those who left NIG for other institutions gave talks reflecting on their experience with open recruitment, interviews, and preparing demo lectures. On the second day (the latter half), we had talks, mainly from the perspective of hiring people.

To all the lecturers, thank you very much.

Yuki Hara, Assistant Professor, Yamaguchi University

Kenta Sumiyama, Unit Leader, RIKEN QBiC

Mitsuhiko Kurusu, Research Administrator, National Institute of Genetics

Saori Miyazaki, Associate Professor, Shizuoka University

Minori Shinya, Associate Professor, Keio University

Hironori Wada, Associate Professor, Kitasato University

Daisuke Shiomi, Associate Professor, Rikkyo University

Tatsuya Nishino, Associate Professor, Tokyo University of Science

Isao Katsura, Director, National Institute of Genetics

Akatsuki Kimura, Professor, National Institute of Genetics

Tatsumi Hirata, Professor, National Institute of Genetics

Yasushi Hiromi, Senior Research Administrator, National Institute of Genetics

Takehiko Kobayashi, Professor, The University of Tokyo

Toshiyuki Misu, Professor, Hiroshima University

Many career seminars are introducing non-academic positions, but we instead provided information on "how to continue research little by little” in a slightly different manner. It was a good meeting where each lecturer’s thoughts were conveyed.

Participants' impressions were also great such as “I learned about the job hunting situation for a specific academic job”, “It was an opportunity to review myself “, and “Rather than the success story of a great professor, I felt the struggle of a close senior, and their frustration and regrets.” There were also participants who weren’t from NIG who commented that they were "glad to get a glimpse of NIG culture."