Sentences with phrase «got academic jobs»

«I have friends who just got academic jobs, and they're making budgets for startup packages,» she says.

«Among many surprising things about the life of Albert Einstein was the trouble he had in getting an academic job.»

When he didn't get the academic job he wanted, he «turned to Twitter as a source of solace and support — and as an opportunity to learn,... what would a plan B look like?»

... Today I wouldn't get an academic job.

«I tried to remember that if I didn't get an academic job it wasn't the end of the world,» Onyisi says.

Who gets academic jobs, he writes, usually depends much more on departmental politics and personalities than on the relative merits of the various candidates, so not being chosen is generally not a reflection on an applicant.

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.

They may lose their studios to gentrification, realize that rents are too high, miss their hometowns, get academic jobs far away, or, for whatever reason, decide that life is just too damn hard in New York.

Not exact matches

«When I was going on the academic job market, worrying about the campus interview, my friend Matt Seigel told me to just be myself because otherwise, if I got hired as the person I was pretending to be, I would have to keep up that pretense for the rest of my career,» she says.

I found when our income dropped in our lower paying academic jobs the foreign tax credit got phased out.

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By his way of thinking, the most pressing problems include a dramatic drop in college and university endowments, an ever increasing number of graduate students and recent PhDs who will likely never secure full - time academic jobs, and a graying, backward - looking professoriate that refuses to get out of the way.

If as a pastor you have not had an opportunity to learn either kind of skill, you have several options: Arrange to get the training you need (perhaps your church will provide a sabbatical leave); or ask your church to employ a «minister of group life and lay training» (with academic and clinical training in pastoral care and counseling); or employ a part - time pastoral counselor or accredited chaplain supervisor to coordinate lay training; or simply find a competent supervisor in your community and get your own on - the - job training as a trainer by having him or her coach you as you do lay training.

@JustinBeagley - the concept of «being able to» is directly contradictory to «get a managerial job or go to academic school».

It is not only tough to get a job in the industial world but academic as well for me; due to my lack of experience.

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.

I made a great effort during last 4 years to obtain positive results in my thesis and now I feel like I have wasted my time: I have no options to get a job neither in academic nor industry unless I refresh or recycle myself, but how I could do so when I'm 35 and spent the main time of my life studiying and giving up so many things just to get a better future?

«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.

BN: Results that are novel are more likely to be published, and the primary currency of an academic scientist is a publication — a good publication record in prestigious journals helps you get a good academic job, funding and awards.

Third would be «some mechanism for getting ready to get a job,» such as help preparing for the all - important seminar and chalk talk presentations required for many academic appointments.

Among that paper's conclusions: once women with math - intensive doctorates enter the professional academic world, they're as likely as men to stay in their jobs and get promotions.

I got the job partly because it happened that my own research interests fit neatly into the organisation's activities, and partly because I showed that I had been involved in discussions about science outside the academic arena.

Rising enrollments in graduate science degree programs and relatively flat federal spending on academic science mean that, if anything, the academic job market is likely to get worse in the coming years.

You get the idea: Always adapt the format of your CV to a particular job, and this means maximising skills and minimising the academic side, if you are applying for a nonacademic job.

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».

It's not possible to determine whether that means people got jobs in their field outside an academic institution or whether they left their field entirely, but the report does give the primary employment sectors for each discipline.

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.

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.

To get a life science job in California, Madeline Butler says, «getting experience — in academics or industry — is the primary thing.»

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.»

In fact, if you're interested in an academic career I encourage you to do just that to help provide some perspective and clarity about what the job entails and how it gets done.

What this adds up to is a two - way selling job — to industry, persuading them that UCL has something to offer, and to the academics, showing them that it?s worth their while to get involved with this work, especially when they are already juggling numerous other research and teaching activities.

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

On the whole, academics would just as soon get on with the job of teaching, research and administration within their own universities.

The majority of survey respondents (79 percent) held postdoctoral positions in academic institutions — and they expected to get a job in academia.

- Choosing and getting your ideal academic job; - Setting up and effectively managing the lab; - Obtaining funds; - Teaching and mentoring; - The promotion and tenure process.

The end result of this ongoing quagmire is that getting research grants now is the main job for academic scientists.

However, you may have undiagnosed ADHD and muddle through life until your environment changes and you are presented with greater demands and responsibilities — a new job, increased academic demands, getting married, having children.

Jason Segal's (Jeff, Who Lives at Home, Bad Teacher) Tom and Emily Blunt's (Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, The Adjustment Bureau) Violet are superhappy in San Francisco and are planning their wedding when disaster strikes: she does not get the local job she was hoping for, an academic posting that she has been working toward her whole life.

Lynch says he's proud of the fact that the schools he's worked in — which have tended to serve working - class students — have had good records and that «a high percentage of the students got jobs; some of them have done quite well from an academic point of view.»

«Ultimately school work should come first, especially at important times in the academic calendar such as GCSEs, and part time jobs should not get in the way of exam preparation.

Recently, Witney won approval to hire 20 academic advisers whose job is to get high school students on track to both enter college and then graduate from college.

Fischman says students should ask themselves: «Am I going to college because it's the natural next step, to get a job, to explore different areas of academic and extra-curricular interests, or to think deeply about my own views about my own beliefs and values?»

Educators and parents who are interested in helping students reach their long - term goals — staying in school and getting good jobs — need to help them get better at «code switching» as they navigate their way through daily social and academic challenges.

I could have gone on to academics, but my day job was doing child - care advocacy and saying, «Come on, let's get this going.»

Getting a master's degree is frequently something done concurrently with a full time teaching job, so the last thing these teachers want is a challenging academic program that requires real work.

No chief academic officer ever got fired for choosing an intervention deemed ineffective by the What Works Clearinghouse, but plenty have lost their jobs after a dispute with a school board member or after a committee of department chairs complained.

By integrating academics, career skills, and hands - on learning, students are more engaged in the subject, and they get to make connections that may lead to jobs down the road.

It turns out that students who feel valued as individuals become much more motivated in their academics, and teachers who see their role as helping to mold students» values get a lot more fulfillment from their jobs.

If done well, the final product can further their academic career or get them a job.