Postdocs leaving academia felt supported by their new colleagues, family and friends, and broader networks; they also highlighted the importance of seeking career advice and mentoring.
Not exact matches
-LSB-...] blogger Bob O'Hagan reviewed an opinion piece that was published on nextscientist.com entitled «How To Know If You Should
Leave Academia... Before Wasting Years In
Postdocs».
Whether it's the «
postdoc clock» or the notion that «once you
leave academia you can't go back,» many forgo opportunities in industry, consulting, policy, or other domains for that it will harm their CV.
Kreiner finished his Ph.D. and
left Stanford in 1988 for a
postdoc position at the University of California, Berkeley, en route, he assumed, to a faculty position in
academia.
Physiologist Sara Borniquel of the Karolinska Institutet (KI) in Stockholm, Sweden, is not yet sure what she will do when her
postdoc is over, but she is ready to
leave academia.
Kenwrick had prepared her way out of
academia by gradually ceasing to take on new students or
postdocs, but
leaving behind her lab and a faculty position for good was not easy.
«You would think companies would be thrilled to have such a highly trained workforce at their fingertips,» says Alison Fisher, who
left academia in 2008 after completing a
postdoc with the U.S. Department of Agriculture at a site near San Francisco.
So far, the survey has drawn nearly 1700 responses, 600 from former European and U.K.
postdocs who have
left academia.
It was a good reminder that principal investigators are not much help to the stellar
postdoc wishing to
leave academia.
At the conference, Vitae released the preliminary results of a Europe - wide study of why European research staff (mostly
postdocs)
leave academia and what they do next.