Thriving, Not Just Surviving: Skills Essential to Leveraging Your Scientific Career

In the competitive world of scientific research, developing skills that increase a scientist's effectiveness is essential to success. Professional career development within the scientific sphere is often focused on the technical (i.e., hard) skills that are central to the training environment of future nutrition scientists and help ensure that they become productive members of the scientific community with the skills required to conduct high-quality research. However, possessing only the hard, scientific skills required for most research-based positions is not enough to guarantee career success. Soft skills, the sometimes forgotten, rarely defined set of transferrable skills, are just as important. But what exactly are they? Where do they come into play, and how can they contribute to a trainee's success