We are expert mentors and professionals with invaluable experience assisting clients who work, or want to work, in the following industries: consulting, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, non-profits, think tanks, federal government, and academia.
Josh Henkin, PhD
Focused on careers outside of academia.
As a hiring manager for over 20 years, Josh realized that STEM graduates could benefit from expert knowledge about how to start and sustain careers outside of academia and navigate the job search and application process. This led to the formation of STEM Career Services, LLC in 2014. Josh speaks and conducts workshops at conferences, universities, and institutes across the country and provides career coaching to STEM graduates at all career levels. Josh also provides 1:1 coaching to early career professionals at Federal Agencies (e.g. NIH, NIST, DoE), National Labs (e.g. Berkeley, NREL), and numerous other universities, science-promoting societies, and research institutes.
Concurrent with his work at STEM Career Services, Josh is a Senior Program and Portfolio Manager with Tunnell Consulting, a science and technology consulting company. Josh provides technical and programmatic support to the Biomedical Advanced Research & Development Authority (BARDA) in their efforts to prevent and respond to public health emergencies and pandemics. Notably, Josh was a member of the Operation Warp Speed team that helped develop and deliver the portfolio of COVID-19 vaccines during the recent pandemic.
Prior to this role, Josh was a Senior Consultant with hiring authority at Logistics Management Institute (LMI), a science and technology consulting company where he led teams that provided technical and programmatic support to Department of Defense (DoD) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) vaccine and therapeutic development programs. Prior to this he worked as a Principle Field Scientist in Medtronic’s cardiac rhythm disease management division, where he managed a portfolio of investigator-initiated clinical trials to promote innovative research with implantable cardiac devices. And before this as an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow, Josh worked with the US Department of Defense as a scientific advisor for the Undersecretary of Defense for Laboratories and Basic Sciences, creating policies and managing basic science research programs.
He holds a BS in business administration, a MS in nutritional sciences, and a PhD in cell and molecular biology – all from the University of Vermont.
Focused on careers inside of academia.
Daniel Olson-Bang, Ph.D. is the founding Director of Professional and Career Development in the Graduate School at Syracuse University, a role that he has held since 2017. Previously, he was Associate Director of Graduate Career Services, also at Syracuse, beginning in 2014. As Director, Dan works with master’s and doctoral students as well as postdoctoral scholars in all areas of career and professional development, specializing in work with STEM doctoral students and postdocs.
Each year Dan assists hundreds of students and scholars individually and has hosted and created countless workshops, invited nationally recognized speakers, and partnered with schools and colleges across campus to assist students and scholars at all phases of their academic careers. He is a Writing Faculty Fellow in Syracuse’s School of Information Studies (iSchool), where he teaches research writing to doctoral students.
He has consulted with national career platforms, government labs, and advised graduate students and postdocs from institutions across the country on honing their academic job materials, practicing interviews, and guiding their negotiation processes to successful conclusions.
He holds a BA in English from NC State University, a Master’s in English from NYU, and a doctorate in English Literature from Fordham University.
Providing solutions for STEM graduates.
The STEM Career Services team empowers clients with personalized career counseling that strengthens your value proposition to employers and helps you grow throughout your professional career. Our dedicated team of industry veterans will help you create career goals, cover letters and resumes; teach you about in-person and social networking; help you develop interview skills and elevator pitches; and more. These invaluable skills and resources are designed to foster success throughout your career.
CLIENT SUCCESS STORIES
“One of the smartest investments I have made in my professional journey is in signing up for career coaching sessions with Josh. Among his broad array of talents, one that I am very appreciative of is his ability to help me paint a meaningful and impressive story about my career trajectory. Having had multiple prior fellowship and job experiences that may not seem connected to the untrained eye, Josh helped me to take a step back and brainstorm how to present these backgrounds in an engaging, cohesive manner… Josh was also very strategic in how I should generally present myself in my application materials, giving me tips (both small and large) to stand out in the job search. I also appreciated the supportive nature he provided during our sessions, how he challenged me to think more critically about my prior impact and my future professional desires, and how he highlighted skillsets I didn’t even realize I had… I am genuinely excited to utilize all the advice I’ve received from Josh as I enter the job market, and hopefully find the job that will be the perfect combination of elements that I am looking for out of a career, and that will allow me to thrive and make a meaningful impact.”
“Working with Josh has completely changed my ability to promote myself in my resume, respond to interview questions with poise, and negotiate contracts to achieve the best possible outcome. I had a hard time taking credit for my achievements or even understanding how to determine what metrics demonstrated my capabilities. I had no idea why my resume/CV was not working for me to get interviews. Josh was able to help translate some of the rather technical jargon that I use on a daily basis to something that speaks to a broader audience… I went from having about a 10% success rate in getting interviews to 100%… I started career coaching with Josh using professional development funds from my employer but continued on my own once I saw what an unbelievable difference this coaching is making in achieving my career goals. Best use of money I’ve ever spent.”
“Before I started working with Josh I was struggling with confidence. I knew my resume didn’t showcase my skills in the optimal way, but I didn’t know how to improve it. Much of the advice you find online is low quality so you can spend months trying to follow bad advice without getting anywhere. Working with Josh saves you a lot of time and effort. Working with Josh gave me confidence because I finally had concrete steps to take. These steps ultimately led me to accept an excellent job offer within a few months. For anyone who’s thinking about working with Josh, he’s worth every penny. He’s highly knowledgeable and he goes above and beyond to help you.”
“As a mid-career professional who was trying to switch my focus, Josh was exactly what I needed… Josh was an amazing career coach for my job search. He knows what recruiters and hiring managers are looking for. He explained not only that, but also how to tailor my message to the exact position I was applying to. He has a great system that I have recommended over, and over, and over again to friends and colleagues. After changing my LinkedIn page, I went from 0 recruiters messaging me in a decade to about one a month. His focus on breaking down every step of the process from LinkedIn page to resume to informational interviews to the interviews themselves was phenomenal. After working with him I gained both the knowledge of how to do a job search in today’s environment and built up my own self confidence with tips he tailored specifically to me. By working with Josh I saved valuable time and likely salary far beyond what I paid to him. His services were a great investment in myself, and he was worth every penny.”