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Are You Diverse Enough? WE HEAR a lot of talk these days about how important diversity is—gender, race, ethnicity, religion, socioeconomic status, and so on. Is your career diverse?
in multiple subjects makes it easier to shift your priorities with changing technologies— especially now, when so much of science is interdisciplinary and shifting constantly.
NETWORK. One of the most important SKILLS. In addition to knowing different places where you need diversity is in your things, you need to be able to do different professional network. Do you regularly things. If you only do nuclear magnetic resokeep in touch with people from industry, nance spectroscopy or organic synthesis, academia, and govyou will only be ernment? How about needed as long as with entrepreneurs? that particular skill Do you talk with is needed. If you students and recent have developed a graduates, midcareer variety of skills, you professionals, as well will be able to shift as senior scientists your focus as your who may be thinking company or industry about moving into shifts and subsesomething else? You quently remain a can use tools such as valuable part of your Increase the diversity of socilab.com to visualize and anaorganization. Soft, or nontechnical, your network. skills are extremely valuable in this lyze your social media networks. Ideally, you will have many differregard; communication and interent clusters of colleagues, where everyone personal skills are important no matter how knows each other within the clusters, but your organization changes. those clusters are only loosely connected to each other. The more distinct clusters you FACETS. Finally, it’s important to have ashave, the more diverse your network is— pects to your life that don’t depend on each and the broader your reach when you need other. In addition to your work, you should information. have family, friends, hobbies, and volunteer activities. Having different facets to your life PROJECTS. Is there diversity in the types means that when things aren’t going well in of projects in which you work? Do you have one area, you can take refuge in another. In both short-term and long-term projects? addition, being able to compare and conShort-term projects provide immediate trast how problems are handled in different wins, while longer-term projects provide environments may prove enlightening, and more substantial accomplishments. Do lessons learned in one place can be used in you have some projects that are routine, others. reliable, and virtually guaranteed to be successful, and others that are riskier but Your professional life comprises many difhave more chance of paying off big? Havferent areas, and there are ways you can ing variety in the types of projects you have add diversity to them all. The more diverse ensures that when you’re stalled on one, you are, the more tools you will have to you can use that time efficiently on another. handle whatever your career brings. Moreover, your deadlines will be spread out. Get Involved In The Discussion. The KNOWLEDGE. It’s easy to find ACS Career Tips column is published something you enjoy and focus the first week of every month in on that, and it’s very easy to C&EN. Post your comments, folstick with it. You learn more low the discussion, and suggest and more about an increastopics for future columns in the ingly specialized area, until you Career Development section of know absolutely everything the ACS Network (www.acs.org/ about almost nothing. Making network-careers).—Brought to you sure that you have some expertise by ACS Careers ZUDY/SHUTTERSTOCK
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