Research Interview

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - San Diego
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<p>Hey all,
So I did the epic professor email spamming, and luckily a few responded. One professor (Well, the lab manager, to be exact) said she was impressed by my resume and wanted to "invite me for a brief interview." I'm not sure what "brief" means exactly, so I have a simple question for any of you who have gone through an interview for a research position. Should I dress up nicely when going to the interview? If so, would a simple dress shirt and jeans suffice? Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I've actually been eying this specific research lab for some time, and I really dont want to !@#$ things up!</p>

<p>Thanks a bunch in advance.</p>

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<p>congrats! dress shirt and jeans are fine. be prepared to demonstrate knowledge of all the stuff you <em>claimed</em> to know on your resume. you’d be surprised – we were interviewing potential lab techs who said they had experience in cloning/purifying protein/whatever but when pressed for details, they admitted they’d only done it once and didn’t understand what was going on. </p>

<p>what department is this for?</p>

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<p>Thanks!
Its for the bio department. The topic is on protein misfolding. Hopefully they won’t grill me on too much technical stuff. :)</p>