Sentences with phrase «many alternative careers»

The years I spent at home as well as in an alternative career gave me a unique set of skills that, when strategically packaged, enabled me to distinguish myself from my peers.

Anyone who has dared to earn a living as a creative or who has taken an alternative career path knows what I'm talking about.

According to a report from Harvard and Princeton economists, nearly all of that job growth — about 94 percent — is the result of alternative careers, freelancing, Small Office / Home Office (SOHO) businesses and the «gig economy.»

PLEASE tell me you are working on pursuing food photography or some other kind of street / magazine photography as an alternative career.

To be a really powerful alternative career route, MPs will need to be convinced that select committee work can have an impact on policy.

It maybe that for individual backbenchers, select committee Chairs are increasingly being seen as an alternative career route to ministerial office.

«The only alternative career I have thought about is a career in journalism,» Cuomo added, apparently joking.

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,

Next Scientist succinctly summarizes 11 potential alternative careers.

The truth is there are many alternative careers for PhDs and some might make you happier than staying in your PhD.

If these stories do nothing else they will challenge some of the widely held beliefs that many have about «alternative careers» and the people who seek them out.

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 exciting science.

He is an expert in the biotechnology industry and specializes in helping PhDs transition into cutting - edge alternative career tracks.

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.

Alternative careers for PhD students?

-LSB-...] 11 Alternative Careers For PhD... — Staying in academia is not the only option for PhDs.

There are also other alternative careers for PhD students that may be less obvious.

A very helpful post about the various alternative careers for PhD students.

Working for publishers is also a common alternative career for PhD students.

-LSB-...] truth is there are many alternative careers for PhDs and some might make you happier than staying in your PhD.

For PhD students who want to follow an alternative career path, there are a surprising number of options.

-LSB-...] 11 Alternative Careers For PhD Students... — Considering alternative careers for PhD students?

Here you have 11 alternative careers for PhD students you can consider for your next career move.

-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.

It's called Alternative Careers in Science: Leaving the Ivory Tower.

There are many alternative careers for PhD students waiting in industry.

In order to make this decision, you first need to understand what other alternative careers for PhD students are out there.

Leaving the Lab Behind by Career Doctor, 25 October 2002 Considering the wider research process allows you to identify a great many alternative careers related to research.

Personally, I didn't start looking at alternative careers until my second year as a postdoc.

Considering alternative careers for PhD students?

No gender differences could be found regarding research funding, finding a permanent nonacademic research position, or pursuing alternative careers.

So you've researched alternative career options, sent cold emails, and gone on informational interviews.

It's OK to take a short postdoc position to buy time exploring alternative careers, but if you're serious about an academic career, you must identify the postdoc lab that will maximize your chances of long - term academic success.

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.

As a graduate student in the mid-1990s we never discussed alternative career paths.

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.

The workshop combined the presentation of research findings from the MOBEX 2 project with a practical insight into European mobility and alternative careers away from academic research.

Now, many postdocs in both science and the arts face an undefined future with little or no help in developing an alternative career plan.

I outlined examples of programs, such as career planning offices, manuals, career assistance Web sites, and student - run seminars on alternative careers.

I had come into this thinking that with all the talk about the «glut» of scientists in the job market, these mentors would want to hear from the panels about alternative career opportunities.

He found persuasive evidence that physics enrollments were strongly influenced by the attractiveness of physics careers relative to competing alternative careers.

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 careers.

Those students who went off into industry or other alternative career channels seemed to have somehow fallen off the edge and into a ravine.

Keynote presentation by an industry or government luminary: perhaps a local CEO of a biotech company or an alumnus who has gone on to fame in an alternative career path.

By then, a trainee would have gained skills that are «mainstream... in the pharmaceutical industry, so they could redeploy» quite easily, Kitney says, citing just one of several possible alternative career trajectories.

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 States.

Instead, I focused on positions that I found interesting (alternative careers, industry, government labs) and gathered as much information — about myself, my needs, and my potential employers — as possible.

«This is not about alternative careers,» Cherwitz tells Next Wave, «it is about being professional and having options.»