"Alternative careers" refer to job options or professions that are different from or unconventional compared to the usual or expected choices in a particular field or industry. These are alternative paths that individuals can pursue rather than following the traditional or commonly chosen career options.
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I see myself as lucky that I got my faculty job when I did, and this is one of the reasons why I care a lot about
alternative careers for scientists.
Of course, teaching isn't for everyone and many graduates of all descriptions will naturally choose to
explore alternative career paths.
After 3 or 4 years as a postdoc, I actually started looking
into alternative careers and considered going to law school.
To truly determine the salary required to attract and retain talented candidates to the teaching field, the important measurement is how compensation compares in relation to
alternative careers with similar educational requirements.
To be a really powerful
alternative career route, MPs will need to be convinced that select committee work can have an impact on policy.
Looking
at alternative careers involves doing some research and opening your mind to possibilities in areas you wouldn't naturally have thought of when pursuing a legal career.
So I am directly competing with industry employers in those fields, which makes it really easy for me to show my students and
postdocs alternative career options.
Finally,
alternative careers relevant to research may offer a good compromise between getting a stop - gap job and embarking on another postdoc.
Here's a look at the dream and the reality of being an author, as well as a
few alternative careers for passionate writers outside the author track.
For candidates who are changing their career focus, it makes sense to emphasize that you have been exploring
alternative career directions that would better suit your skills and interests.
Experienced teachers will leave the state sector as progression, increased pension contributions and lack of respect for teachers forces them to
seek alternative careers.
However, in my new
alternative career as a part - time document reviewer and full time comedian and writer, I assumed I would never again have to take abuse as part of this relatively simple job.
«I've been worried enough about lack of funding and sequestration that I've
considered alternative career options,» says Bolduc, who works in the lab of Philip Cole, director of pharmacology and molecular science at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
If you are anything like me, you have spent that last few years distancing yourself from focusing on law and instead focusing on some other
alternative career ambitions.
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by engorging the public sector and boosting pay in that world, they have
created alternative careers for the likes of Simon Stevens (ex Balliol Oxford, President of the Union and Lambeth Labour Councillor), James Purnell and Tristram Hunt,
He is an expert in the biotechnology industry and specializes in helping PhDs transition into cutting - edge
alternative career tracks.