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.
5th Annual
Alternative Careers for Women in Law Program May 4, 2011 LSUC Lamont Centre 130 Queen St. W, Toronto 5:30 - 8:30 p.m.
An entire series of blogs, named «Thrillable Hours» explores
alternative careers for lawyers.
If you have an interesting perspective on
alternative careers for science writers, you can contact him here.
Why hold a panel discussion on
alternative careers for science writers?
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.
Considering
alternative careers for PhD students?
In order to make this decision, you first need to understand what other
alternative careers for PhD students are out there.
There are many
alternative careers for PhD students waiting in industry.
-LSB-...] You find pages like «From PhD to Life», «Career advice and hope for graduate students», «11
alternative careers for PhD students», and so on and so forth.
Here you have 11
alternative careers for PhD students you can consider for your next career move.
-LSB-...] 11
Alternative Careers For PhD Students... — Considering
alternative careers for PhD students?
-LSB-...] truth is there are many
alternative careers for PhDs and some might make you happier than staying in your PhD.
A very helpful post about the various
alternative careers for PhD students.
There are also other
alternative careers for PhD students that may be less obvious.
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Alternative Careers For PhD... — Staying in academia is not the only option for PhDs.
Alternative careers for PhD students?
The truth is there are many
alternative careers for PhDs and some might make you happier than staying in your PhD.
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,
Working for publishers is also a common
alternative career for PhD students.
What is
an alternative career for a lawyer is someone else's traditional career, so there is no law school OCI, and the jobs are posted where the other professionals look for work.
Second, many
alternative career for lawyers positions pay less on average than legal positions.
JOB HIGHLIGHTS: - Offers one - on - one time with physicians - Exposure to an emergency or outpatient environment - Paid training providing a crash course in medicine including terminology, disease processes, emergency procedures, medications, medical decision making and more - Excellent resume builder for medical school or start to your career in healthcare - Great
alternative career for those interested in CNA, MA, EMT, or Paramedic careers
Not exact matches
Second, a rethinking of corporate models since the Great Recession has led to a more agile lean way of doing business that abandons the «corporate monolith» model once again makes small - time entrepreneurship a realistic
career alternative to the nearly - obsolete ideal of getting a job at a big company, staying
for 30 years to retire with a pension and gold watch.
«With 21 graduated apprentices becoming store managers and 57 shift supervisors, it proves to us that apprenticeships
for young people are a genuine
alternative to academic study and are a real path to a retail
career,» said Lisa Robbins, director of Partner Resources
for Starbucks UK.
Another
alternative would be
for the government to assist in funding
career - training
for ESL teacher returnees.
I do not believe in any of the man - made gods, yet I find joy in life with a satisfying
career, raising my chiidren, financial security, martial arts, weight lifting, etc....
For some reason you seem unable to accept that as being an
alternative.
Victory prolongs
careers, rightly and wrongly, and so Spain went into the tournament with a goalkeeper who is no longer first - choice
for his club, and without having needed to identify a workable
alternative to the Xavi - Xabi midfield, both of whom have been getting noticeably leggy over the last two seasons.
Pre baby days, I spent five years building a
career as freelance journalist in Atlanta, writing
for magazines,
alternative weeklies and covering politics
for a bilingual Hispanic newspaper.
More charitably, it seems to have served as an
alternative avenue
for leadership
for those coming to the end of their parliamentary
careers and with no prospect of ministerial office.
«If I don't, then the
alternative will be a
career politician, with NO change and no Development
for Gorton.
It maybe that
for individual backbenchers, select committee Chairs are increasingly being seen as an
alternative career route to ministerial office.
Dr. Tisch said that among the things she was proudest of was creating
alternative pathways to graduation
for students who wanted to focus on the arts or a
career - related skill, advocating
for undocumented students to receive tuition assistance at city and state colleges, and pushing
for state oversight of the troubled East Ramapo school district in Rockland County.
Tooling Up Book Club:
Alternative Careers in Science: Leaving the Ivory Tower by Peter Fiske, 22 May 1998 Science Careers columnist Peter Fiske discussed a book that dashes the stereotypes that scientists who go for alternative careers have necessarily had bad research experiences, don't purposefully seek out careers that are better suited to them than academia, and do not find ways to stay close to exciti
Alternative Careers in Science: Leaving the Ivory Tower by Peter Fiske, 22 May 1998 Science Careers columnist Peter Fiske discussed a book that dashes the stereotypes that scientists who go for alternative careers have necessarily had bad research experiences, don't purposefully seek out careers that are better suited to them than academia, and do not find ways to stay close to exciting s
Careers in Science: Leaving the Ivory Tower by Peter Fiske, 22 May 1998 Science
Careers columnist Peter Fiske discussed a book that dashes the stereotypes that scientists who go for alternative careers have necessarily had bad research experiences, don't purposefully seek out careers that are better suited to them than academia, and do not find ways to stay close to exciting s
Careers columnist Peter Fiske discussed a book that dashes the stereotypes that scientists who go
for alternative careers have necessarily had bad research experiences, don't purposefully seek out careers that are better suited to them than academia, and do not find ways to stay close to exciti
alternative careers have necessarily had bad research experiences, don't purposefully seek out careers that are better suited to them than academia, and do not find ways to stay close to exciting s
careers have necessarily had bad research experiences, don't purposefully seek out
careers that are better suited to them than academia, and do not find ways to stay close to exciting s
careers that are better suited to them than academia, and do not find ways to stay close to exciting science.
The Quest
for a Post-PhD Career by Ireena Dutta, 31 August 2001 Here's how, after deciding against pursuing a postdoc, Ireena Dutta began to think about the many possible
alternative careers she could choose.
For PhD students who want to follow an
alternative career path, there are a surprising number of options.
These will help you choose your new
career in two ways — by giving you ideas
for attractive
alternatives and advice on how to make the transition out of academia.
Müller also notes that while the report criticizes the current model in which all early -
career researchers must juggle a range of activities and compete
for the same achievements, it does not contemplate
alternatives to that model.
I did several interviews
for the WIN website with women scientists, some of whom had pursued
alternative careers, and I learned a great deal about science options from those interviews.
You graduated more than 5 years ago, so you won't be eligible
for free advice from your old university
careers service, but there are
alternative services available at some institutions.
It used to be envisioned as a
career for introverted paper - pushers, but is now an attractive
alternative to laboratory science.
The final session covered
alternative career paths
for scientists where Next Wave's European Editor, Anne Forde gave a practical insight into her
career as an Editor and Next Wave's Seema Sharma spoke of her previous
career transition working as a Technical Specialist.
Many postdocs are searching
for alternatives that allow them to stay within their chosen fields but keep their
career options open.
These same changes are occurring in several other medical specialties; clinical neuroscience is just one of several more specialized clinical disciplines that offer viable
alternatives to internal medicine
for exciting
careers in state - of - the - art research.
I spent hours scouring science job ads, reading books and articles about
alternative careers, and searching the Web
for something a little different from research.
For Next Wave readers, the Milkround site is a good place to go for basic information on alternative caree
For Next Wave readers, the Milkround site is a good place to go
for basic information on alternative caree
for basic information on
alternative careers.
Therefore, researchers in training need to consider and prepare
for careers outside, as well as within, academia because «
alternative» nonacademic
careers actually represent the vast majority of
career destinations
for researchers nowadays.
Perhaps much of the talk about
alternative careers is still lip service
for many life sciences department heads.
A:
For years, I had been involved in promoting professional recognition for early - career researchers, raising awareness of alternative careers, and bridging the gap between academia and industry through grassroots associations in France and the United Stat
For years, I had been involved in promoting professional recognition
for early - career researchers, raising awareness of alternative careers, and bridging the gap between academia and industry through grassroots associations in France and the United Stat
for early -
career researchers, raising awareness of
alternative careers, and bridging the gap between academia and industry through grassroots associations in France and the United States.
A field with a higher share of postdocs is likely to have stiffer competition
for scarce academic
careers, and a large proportion of postdocs very likely indicates that the field offers few compelling
alternatives to the academic track.