Independent Principal Investigator job talk framework
I usually email these bits of advice to faculty candidates I have hosted at CCMB. These are useful to the small niche of people who need this only once in their lifetimes, at and beyond CCMB. I am no fount of knowledge to put this on X or Linkedin. So I'll hide these here for anyone who is looking. "At CCMB there is only one talk. Please shoot for a 40 minute talk. There are usually a lot of questions and that can push the duration to between 1-1.25 hrs. These guidelines might help you make the best case for you hiring at CCMB: Ensure that the audience knows a. the process and specific questions that you intend to address, b. why they are crucial to our understanding (where this process is crucial and what are we missing because of the absence of this knowledge) and c. why you are the person to address them. The format that has usually worked well at CCMB is where you talk for about 10 minutes about your past research and its impact. Next, bring to the fore...