Author: Ping Xiao
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Innovation Is Also the Key for Your Career Success In a Post-recession World in the Industry -The 7 Innovation Secrets of Steve
Innovation is a fundamental skill for a PhD, an important part of being a good technician and helping the PhD to design experiments that yield precise results. In order to get a PhD degree, however, one has to have new ideas and new findings in a specific field. Yes, we know how to analyze, an...
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QUALITY
Quality is the life of industry, especially for healthcare related enterprises. We need to satisfy not only the customer, but also the government. If you want to work for industry, no matter what kind of work you do, you have to put quality in your mind first. Furthermore, if you work for an interna...
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Reality and Actuality
Has anybody thought that reality and actuality is not always the same? There may not be many people like those in Reality TV shows, but has anybody thought about its actuality? I will use GAMBLING as an example to discuss reality and actuality.Do scientists gamble? Many scientists would say: “No, ...
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Live, Love and Pray
This is a blog for PhDs who, in their focus on scientific research, have lost their work/life balance.Some people may think PhDs are too narrowly focused and think differently than others, and are especially without people and communication skills. This may be true for a lot of PhDs, but not everybo...
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Talking About Technology Transfer
What is technology transfer? Everybody has a different definition. Usually, people think it comes from the meaning of the word, “transfer,” and yes, who doesn’t understand the word “transfer?” Transfer school, transfer money from one account to another…etc, but technology transfer has a ...
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Capitalism
This article is written relating to a question on my blog - what did I find out after I coming out of the school that surprised me the most. I found out what Capitalism is in the real world. 20 years ago, when I moved from China, the highest salary in China was about $10 per month. Regular workers i...
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Believe in Yourself is the Way to Success- My Story of Transition From Academia
Once upon a time, there was an eagle that grew up with a group of chickens. He thought of himself as a chicken too, enjoying a routine life the same as everybody else. His master was very angry when trying various methods to get him to fly, but he couldn’t.
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Manage Yourself To Achieve Your Career Goals in Industry
What have you done for yourself lately? This is not a question about getting a massage or spending a weekend relaxing in the country. It is a question to jolt you into paying attention to your own professional development. With so much thought and energy rightly focused on the global financial crisi...
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How to Deal With Cultural Changes
The famous “American Dream,” along with many stories of success, have attracted talented people to the U.S. as the best place for scientists in the world. I believe many PhDs who are seeking further career development and successful lives are from different countries. I am also from a coun...
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3 tips for a successful job search for a Ph.D.
We are our own inner architects. As a PhD, it is not hard to understand an equilateral triangle base is the least requirement for a stable frame, and the broader that triangle is, the higher the building could be. Skill, Interest and Value are the three sides of triangle, which are necessary f...
