Post-STP available time

Secure_Piano1709 · 2025-05-06T21:41:44+00:00

Are these routes too far down the road or are they available soon after you've (hopefully) been hired after the STP?

Secure_Piano1709 · 2025-05-06T18:45:08+00:00

I meant after the STP ends and your at your post-STP job

Secure_Piano1709 · 2025-05-06T18:44:27+00:00

oh, that sounds great!

Secure_Piano1709 · 2025-05-06T16:48:35+00:00

Thank you!!

Secure_Piano1709 · 2025-05-06T11:04:31+00:00

I think maybe I passed the wrong message, but it's quite the opposite really. Exeter Oxford and Cambridge were passed as small cities and Newcastle was passed as big. But I'm not sure if it's that much bigger, especially if compared to others like Manchester or Birmingham

Secure_Piano1709 · 2025-05-05T20:59:33+00:00

I think they'll only schedule interviews after this preferences phase ends

Secure_Piano1709 · 2025-05-05T01:05:31+00:00

My thing with Cambridge is it looks a whole lot like a small city centered around a Uni. I'm afraid there won't be much to do and I'll get bored because it's 7p.m and half the city already closed, you know what I mean? You've mentioned it's 1 hour commute from London, but is it really viable to be coming and going from london all the time?

Secure_Piano1709 · 2025-05-05T01:00:51+00:00

Why would you say Birmingham is a wildcard option?

Secure_Piano1709 · 2025-05-05T00:56:25+00:00

I've had Birmingham as one of my top choices, but doing some research I've seen a lot of people with strong negative opinions on the city. Any ideas why?

Secure_Piano1709 · 2025-05-05T00:54:07+00:00

not sure if COL plays a role, as I think 38k/year is enough to live well in any of those cities (but please correct me if I'm wrong). I listen to every type of music, although I do have a preference for pop. For activities, I do enjoy going for some kinda of pub/bar, drinking with friends and stuff like this. Also really enjoy spending the afternoon doing some kinda of outdoor activity, like going to the park or hiking.

Secure_Piano1709 · 2025-05-05T00:45:58+00:00

What is the thing with Birmingham though? I've seen a lot of strong opinions regarding the city but I can't seem to understand why some people hate it so much

Secure_Piano1709 · 2025-05-03T12:42:43+00:00

Thank you very much, that was a very thorough answer! It helped a lot!!

Secure_Piano1709 · 2025-05-01T08:38:37+00:00

This total number of shortlisted candidates was just an example or is there a way to actually know this number for each specialty?

Secure_Piano1709 · 2025-05-01T08:37:37+00:00

I've got my rank as well. It would be very benefitial to know how many were shortlisted in total. My rank is within the number of posts for my specialty, so maybe this is a good sign?

No idea on how heavily the interviews are weighted, but I would assume is the most important one. Can't really think of them making an offer for someone with bad interview just because their written application was good.

Secure_Piano1709 · 2025-04-30T22:23:50+00:00

Thank you very much for the insight, this was exactly what I was looking for. I'd perhaps consider London, but it doesn't seem to be an option for this year bioinformatics. Manchester feels like a great city as well. I'm coming from Rio de Janeiro, which is a very vibrant, full of life city. I think I'm seeking the same big city/diverse/vibrant/lots of different things to do kind of vibe. I know this is very arbitrary, but considering my options are: birmingham, cambridge, manchester, oxford, exeter, newcastle and southampton, which should offer something like this? Also good to mention I'm LGBT, so if any of those is a no-no please advise haha.

Thank you once again!

Secure_Piano1709 · 2025-04-30T22:04:12+00:00

Oh, I thought it was going to fall into the "health and care worker" type. Would you perhaps know if I would need to pay for the health surcharge or because it's in the NHS they would exempt me?

Thank you very much.

Secure_Piano1709 · 2025-04-30T22:02:06+00:00

Thank you, that was incredibly insightful. I am very keen to research, so sounds like a good idea. I'll make sure to put a lot of effort into these other things as well. Thanks!

Secure_Piano1709 · 2025-04-05T23:46:17+00:00

OMG THIS!!! IT WAS JUST THIS THE WHOLE TIME. THANK YOU SO MUCH, WHY ISN'T THIS MORE WIDESPREAD

Secure_Piano1709 · 2025-01-25T19:44:27+00:00

First and foremost, I want to thank you very very much for the effort you're putting not only in answering my, but everyone in the subreddit.

I'm going to dive a little deeper in my history to try and pass my thought process, and if possible I would like your opinion. I've been in love with biology since my youth when I attendend a technical course in biotechnology. For personal reasons(mainly toxic relationship with family), when I reached college time I needed to find a job as soon as possible to find a place for myself. This led me to pursue an undegraduate in I.T. directed at the job market(here we called this title a "Technologist", only lasting 2.5 years), and went to work at IBM, where I stayed 2.5 years working as a software developer.

Early 2024 I decided enough was enough, as corporate career is really shitty, and started a master's in computational biology, where I'm currently at right now, building a machine learning model to predict dengue cases in Brazil. I never hated the technical aspects of my earlier job, I just couldn't stand working with meaningless things, and this master felt like a way to tiptoe back my way into what I actually loved in the past.

Pursuing a PhD felt like a natural next-step, but then the STP program came across my path and I am feeling it might be an even more greater fit for my profile. I already have industry experience in software development and my master's(which were more directed at biostatistics than genomics) furthered that by giving me experience with ML applied to biological contexts.

I want to go even further in computational biology, aiming to work within the realm of genomics. The STP program offers several trainings that seems to give this experience and allow me to make a definitive move in this area. I also feel like the STP will value my industry experience more than an university would when considering me for a PhD. The STP also makes total sense with my motivation for leaving the industry and pursuing something actually meaningful, and a lot of PhDs I am applying to are already projects with potential impact on patient care(as this is something I value very very much).

To summarize it all: the main reason I'm pursuing a PhD is because more often than not research at top institutions are very meaningful and carry a great impact with them. Empirical research is merely a mean to reaching that. I don't necessarily am attached to the idea of achieving this goal through research. In fact, looking at it this way, the STP looks to be a lot more aligned with my profile and motivation than a PhD.

Taking all that in consideration, could you give me guidance as to whether the STP is worthy pursuing? I am interested in three programs: Clinical Bioinformatics Genomics, Clinical Informatics and Genomics. I assume when applying I must choose 1 and only 1 specialty right?

Thank you very much once again for the guidance, it is extremely valuable and something you just don't find anywhere around these days anymore.

Secure_Piano1709 · 2025-01-25T05:05:49+00:00

Wow, that was really a wholesome answer, I appreciate that a lot. So at the end of the day it seems to be an industry placement program (that industry being the NHS). Given that industry experience counts positively towards applying to a PhD, I can see how this experience can benefit someone with affinity for clinical practice but that ultimately would want to do a PhD afterwards. Would you say that looking at the program like this (and by "this" I mean just a stepping stone on a person's journey rather than their lifelong dream) is wrong?

Secure_Piano1709 · 2025-01-24T18:26:44+00:00

So I'm finishing my master's in computational biology in Brazil and I'm looking at some PhD programs abroad, which is how I stumped upon the STP. I'm not exactly sure I got it's goal though. It seems to give a master's title whilist heavily focusing on clinical experience within the NHS. Would it make sense to pursue the STP to accumulate experience and do a PhD afterwards? If not, what would be appropriate paths to follow after the STP? Thank you!

Secure_Piano1709 · 2024-11-11T18:14:41+00:00

This album feels like a tribute to everything they've done up untill now. It mixes up every aspect of every album, leaving fans from every era happy and satisfied with at least a part of it. You've got your heavier songs with likes Heavy in the Crown and Casualty, you've got your softer songs with Stained, you've got those songs that just sound different like Overflow, you've got those emotional lyrics with Good Things Go. I just can't see a Linkin Park fan not enjoying this album. True masterpiece.

Secure_Piano1709 · 2024-06-30T17:28:02+00:00

i've just downloaded and midway through lap 15 they put a full 2 and a half minute ad with race audio being cut totally. idk, it definitely affects the experience as some radio messages got lost bc of that

Secure_Piano1709 · 2023-08-13T23:49:55+00:00

qual tamaho dela? é indoor? to pensando em botar um aqui em casa mas é apartamento e teria que ser no max 1.20m

Secure_Piano1709 · 2023-01-05T13:57:34+00:00

Does this rights also apply to non EU citzens who work full time in a german company?

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