An open position

This story started when Maria found an announcement about an open PostDoc position in Umeå, the largest city in the northern part of Sweden. We had already decided to stay in Madison, WI/USA, until the end of February, and it was time to start looking for jobs in Sweden (or northern Europe).

Maria's first interview - background

Maria had a telephone interview today with the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca about a position as researcher. The interview was really long, so it was good it was in her native language. Nervous to have a job interview, so long time ago since last time.

Note: Later on, two other top candidates with more exact experience were selected and Maria was not one of them. Hands-on experience of setting up and running HPLC-MS (high pressure liquid chromatography – mass spectrometry) was required.
Though, even if this didn’t generate a job, it was a good start in the job hunting process.