Sentences with phrase «at an academic job»

During graduate school and the postdoc, you learn plenty about what scientists expect at an academic job interview.

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Employees who have been at the company for a year, they can be selected to earn up to $ 25,000 per academic year for a nursing degree, associate degree, undergraduate degree, graduate degree, or any job - related degree.

Looking at the current job market, the comprehendable fact is that many people with serious academic degrees are not being able to find a satisfactory job, which is giving a stagnant rise to the underemployment.

And Oxford academics Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne claim that almost half of U.S. jobs are at a high risk of being computerized over the next 20 years.

A similarly structured study looking just at academic science jobs found that application materials from female candidates received lower rankings and lower starting salaries than male candidates, even when a job application reviewer was female.

The short version: He is an outstanding academic economist; he was the No. 2 official at the IMF; and he did a virtuoso job leading the Bank of Israel until earlier this year, making him the central banker to one of the nation's closest allies.

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But at least any hint of academic violations should not affect Wiley's qualifications for her current job, which is — let's see here... ah, yes.

«It will have a significant economic impact by providing job opportunities at thriving businesses right in our own communities and help a new generation of New Yorkers achieve their academic and professional goals.»

In the academic market, good advisers will do some of the work for you, by talking about you to other academics, presenting at conferences with you, keeping an eye out for openings... their job is to get you the interview, and your job is to close the deal.

Near the end of the 2007 — 08 academic year, the couple had a second child — another boy — and Polish found a job at Cary Academy, a private school in Cary, North Carolina.

For all but a small percentage of aspiring researchers, doing a postdoc at a university is a lousy idea because it will neither result in an academic job nor otherwise advance one's career.

«I think it's fair to say that the women who have run the gauntlet and gotten advanced STEM degrees will find the labor market quite welcoming if they choose to seek employment in academic STEM jobs,» writes Jennifer Glass, a sociologist at the University of Texas, Austin, in an e-mail.

Although many would like a permanent academic job at the end of their contract, the reality is that there are not enough academic jobs to go round.

In contrast to your academic job search, an advanced degree in science is not a requirement, so having one will put you at an advantage.

From Mexicali to Harvard by V. Chase, 8 July 2005 Luis León, a third year doctoral student studying immunology at Harvard University and a recent recipient of a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Gilliam Graduate Fellowship, talks about his path from minimum - wage jobs to academic researcher.

While Balch had long practiced machine learning for his academic job, the financial application of the technology was merely a «hobby» for him at the time, he says.

Her goal: a stylish but versatile outfit that would be appropriate at a science conference, in a «corporate casual» work environment, or in an academic job interview — in other words, the killer outfit.

Apparently, Singh says, IRACDA postdocs are finding academic jobs at a higher rate than their peers who do traditional postdocs.

Of respondents to the Snowmass Young Physicists survey, 60 % said they planned to pursue an academic job, says Jonathan Asaadi, 32, a postdoc at Syracuse University in New York and a Snowmass YPM co-convener — even though just as many expect funding for particle physics to continue to decline in coming years.

In only a small number of exceptional cases, it appears, do Ph.D. researchers without elite academic pedigrees end up in full - fledged faculty jobs at research universities.

Her first academic job offer fell through, so she took a second postdoc at Duke University and started exploring other professional opportunities that might suit her better.

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Jose Rodriguez - Romaguera, a grad student studying behavioral neuroscience at the University of Puerto Rico, hasn't changed his mind about chasing an academic job, but he's now considering other possibilities.

The dual - role clarification is important because training to be a professional scientist — whether you aspire to an academic position or some other kind of job — requires more than just time at the bench.

The unemployment rate, at 3.9 %, is also relatively high among chemists whose last job was in industry; 1.6 % of academic chemists and 1.4 % of government chemists are unemployed.

It is difficult to say whether it is easier to find a permanent job in a typical academic career at a university or in a research lab such as CERN.

Fear of failure is ubiquitous and often connected to a nearly existential angst: If forced to abandon their hopes for an academic career, many postdocs worry they would not be able to find any job at all due to their age, overspecialization, and a «too academic» demeanor.

Cham believes that part of his drive to become an academic was the thrill of achievement, and he realized that being «this close» to fulfilling his dream of getting an academic job at MIT was «actually pretty good.

Previous work experience, an ability to work outside your degree field and a willingness to work overseas were at least as important as academic qualification in getting a job, so some new graduates would choose to brighten up their lives and employment prospects by «doing a year abroad».

At the same time that the female percentage of entering medical classes and medical school faculties has risen, the authors note, a second category of full - time academic jobs — the clinician - educator track (CET)-- has grown rapidly, alongside the traditional tenure track (TTT).

«My sense is that the next 6 months or so will be critical» for the academic job market, says University of Oregon geography postdoc Jennifer Marlon, who also took a second postdoc, a 2 - year position at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, funded by the National Science Foundation's Earth Science program.

At that time, there were only 5000 contract research staff (CRS) employees, and those who wanted a permanent academic job could reasonably expect to get one.

Ironically, at about that time, my academic job searches finally started to yield fruit.

The exchange suggests that Chu — a lifelong academic researcher — isn't yet at home dealing with the political realities of his new job.

Many scientists reach a point in their career at which they feel torn between academic and industrial research — and the varying degrees of freedom, job security, and funding that go with each.

Ms. Rosenfeld, whose own parents were an academic couple, recalls that her father landed a job at Oberlin College in the 1960s, while her mother struggled for years to find equally meaningful work.

Madeline Butler, academic coordinator for undergraduate laboratories in the division of biological sciences at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), says, «Our students with undergraduate degrees in biology seem to do well getting jobs in academic institutions and at biotechnology companies.»

Instead of only applying to the top large research institutions, Blaser recommends that graduate students and post docs interested in academic careers look for job vacancies at small to mid-sized institutions.

If a permanent position has advantages over a postdoc, a job at a public research institution in France also has advantages over the typical academic post.

I also saw this job as an opportunity to use the knowledge I had gained at university and to further my own academic achievement.

While a postdoc at INSERM in Paris, Jonathan Dando applied for 134 jobs outside of academic research before landing a job on his doorstep, as a European project manager for INSERM Transfert, INSERM's technology - transfer company.

Researchers, she adds, need to look not just in front of them on the academic path but also all around them at the job options in other sectors, making the best choice for themselves rather than the best choice for their labs.

Many women get a close look at the academic prospects ahead and say, «This job is not designed for me,» Leboy says.

«It's like training someone to be a pole vaulter for 15 years and then saying, «You haven't made the Olympic team but have a go at shot - putting,»» says chemistry lecturer Lee Higham of Newcastle University, U.K. Still, others are just determined to pursue an academic job even though they know how hard they'll have to compete for a permanent position.

Whether you're interested in taking a closer look at the academic career path, changing jobs, or assessing other aspects of your work life, a personal development plan can help you define and explore your goals and map out ways to turn them into reality.

So if you're aware of the academic job market situation and are still willing to take your chances, you had better look at the archives on this site and sign up for this listserv, Tomorrow's Professor.

The sums involved have been nice - supplements - to - an - academic - salary amounts, rather than at ditch - the - day - job - and - order - that - Ferrari levels.

But when a full - time investigator position arose, she set her academic ambitions aside and «jumped at the chance» to apply for the job.

An excellent Next Wave article called «Academic Scientists at Work: The Job Talk» provides a great list of do's and don'ts for talk preparation.