Not exact matches
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.
Taylor adds that, given the
current job market, many
academic supervisors understand the need to place their postdocs in nonresearch posts.
Academic scientists should think realistically about how many intellectual offspring they ought to produce over a career and talk candidly with
current students about the
job market.
Even in good economic times, the
academic job market is glutted; the
current downturn just makes matters worse, he says.
Attending conferences and visiting
academics are also a crucial part of the
job, both as a sales and
marketing opportunity and also editorially, to meet
current and potential authors, and to get an invaluable feel for the needs of
academics and the
current hot topics.