Allison McClure describes how she secured her first postdoctoral position and shares her thoughts on how laboratories can attract candidates.
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I then put together a list of possible labs as I read papers and perused university and institute department websites. By this point, my partner and I had decided that we would like to live in Europe, because it would be a great opportunity to move somewhere else and experience a different way of living. I prioritized labs in Europe, but I included many in the United States as well.
In all of my interviews, I gave a seminar about my PhD research. Usually people from my host lab attended this, as well as people from other labs in the department. Then, I met one-to-one with the lab leader and other lab members. Sometimes I met with other faculty members or people running core facilities. Often, I would go for a meal or two with the current students and postdocs and would get a full tour of the facilities and the campus.
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