Month: August 2021

Strategy – what is this and how can statisticians apply strategic thinking

What is a good or bad strategy?What is the difference between strategy and goals?Has strategy something to do with vision or long-term thinking? Strategy is a buzz word that is all around. Everybody talks about it but I didn’t know what it is for a very long time. I recently read a nice book about …

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PSI Careers Episode 7: Opportunities offered by doing a placement year in the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare industry (Part 2 – Programmers)

Following on from 2019’s series, we again collaborate with PSI Careers to bring two new episodes, this time discussing the opportunities offered by doing a placement year in the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare industry. We chat with placement students from a diverse range of education backgrounds (from Mathematics and Statistics through to Computer science and Bioengineering) …

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Fighting the fear at work

Afraid of speaking up? Afraid of talking to senior management? Afraid of giving a presentation?  Afraid of speaking to someone new? Then you are definitively not alone. Many supervisor worry about their staff not speaking up and I have come across even senior statisticians, who are very uncomfortable about doing a pre-recorded interview for the …

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PSI Careers Episode 6: Opportunities offered by doing a placement year in the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare industry (Part 1 – Statisticians)

Following on from 2019’s series, we again collaborate with PSI Careers to bring two new episodes, this time discussing the opportunities offered by doing a placement year in the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare industry. We chat with placement students from a diverse range of education backgrounds (from Mathematics and Statistics through to Computer science and Bioengineering) …

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