The Careers page provides numerous career resources such as career profiles, career workshops, academic and
nonacademic career advice, employment stats, networking, and more.
The UW On - Ramps workshops aimed to broaden the universe of women from which universities can hire — and ultimately to change the culture of STEM departments and make them more welcoming to underrepresented groups — by helping highly qualified women with
nonacademic career trajectories navigate the transition to academic employment.
But, given the disappointingly uneven picture of available professional development resources that the report paints, scientists who want to emerge from their graduate school or postdoc years ready to find and take advantage of
nonacademic career opportunities must adopt an entrepreneurial approach to their own professional development and take the fullest advantage of all the chances they get to learn about the world of off - campus work.
When she returned to Harvard to finish her Ph.D., Ford already knew that she was interested in pursuing
a nonacademic career.
Computer science also seems healthy, with a relative few finding work in academia but a very good faculty - to - postdoc ratio, suggesting that Ph.D. computer science graduates have very strong
nonacademic career prospects.
Some years ago, a Ph.D. holder with a successful
nonacademic career told me how her postdoc supervisor gave her permission to leave the lab.
This may bring many students into the false sense that preparing for
a nonacademic career is a one - size - fits - all proposition that can be accomplished in the few weeks before graduation.
Ph.D. s hoping to find
nonacademic careers — a group that, in the long run, comprises the overwhelming majority of doctorate recipients — must navigate the transition to industry or government, often with only minimal help from their professors and institutions.
In my opinion, Science's Next Wave is a good starting point for learning about
nonacademic careers.
The National Academies seemed like a good place to begin my foray into the mysterious world of
nonacademic careers.
I've also found additional information from Leeds University Careers Service for postdocs considering a change of career to the commerce and industry sectors and an index of articles published in the U.S. Chronicle of Higher Education on
nonacademic careers for PhDs, which includes case studies and advice.
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.
Informational interviews are the ultimate information exchange and your best opportunity to learn about career tracks, employers, and the many differences between academic and
nonacademic careers.
«There was definitely a bias... against people going into
nonacademic careers, that they were somehow not using their full potential, that they were only doing it because they couldn't do anything else,» she says.
Remuneration in
nonacademic careers will usually be higher, often representing a several hundredfold increase over your student stipend.
Attention focused on funding, postdocs, staff scientists, and training for
nonacademic careers.
They also worked on developing a plan for a proposed online hub or center that would collect and disseminate information and resources, including a speakers bureau of scientists in
nonacademic careers, to help institutions provide better career development services.
«About three fifths of White male STEM PhD holders were in
nonacademic careers.»
«Approximately half of Black, Hispanic, and White female STEM PhD holders and Black and Hispanic male STEM PhD holders were in
nonacademic careers, whereas two thirds of Asian female STEM PhD holders and almost three fourths of Asian male STEM PhD holders were in
nonacademic careers,» the report states.
He commends the report's emphasis on advising on
nonacademic careers: «I think young women researchers — but men, too — would benefit if professors could be a little less snobby about assuming that academia should be the default first choice for all their students.»
A study released on 1 April by the American Institutes for Research,
The Nonacademic Careers of STEM PhD Holders, casts revealing light on which Ph.D. researchers do what kind of nonacademic work.
Sure, there are a few obvious and well - trodden
nonacademic careers (including a few, like pharma research and science journalism, that already are oversubscribed).
Although comedy is an unusual choice, most Ph.D. - trained researchers will eventually pursue, out of choice or necessity,
nonacademic careers, according to a survey by the National Postdoctoral Association.
Establishing a new grant program to fund innovative approaches to training graduate students and postdocs that would provide more exposure to
nonacademic careers
Having entered nonprofit administration, former neurochemist Susan Fitzpatrick offers advice on how to make the transition to
nonacademic careers.
Biotech companies looked like a good way for scientists to excel in
nonacademic careers.
Reacting to a steep rise in the number of young biomedical scientists seeking scarce academic jobs, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to launch programs to prepare scientists for
nonacademic careers, move students through their Ph.D. s faster, and bolster the pay of postdocs.
A Career Opportunities Seminar Series featuring successful scientists will be established to assist scholars who select
nonacademic careers in industry or elsewhere.
They've formed an organization called Future of Research to pressure universities to tell grad students about their prospects for jobs and the track records of previous Ph.D. s, and to give them training in
nonacademic careers.
Decreases in the attractiveness of faculty careers and concomitant increases in the attractiveness of
nonacademic careers lead to even sharper shifts in the share of students finding a particular career most attractive compared to all other careers (the measure used in Figure 2).
Not exact matches
Or to spend 2 years earning Professional Science Master's degrees and entrée to
nonacademic science - based
careers?
These 2 - year PSM programs, as we have often reported, prepare students for
nonacademic, science - related
careers through graduate work in both science and such employment - relevant fields as business, economics, intellectual property, regulatory affairs, ethics, or law.
And their professors, having spent entire
careers in academe, often lack the knowledge and experience needed to advise them on finding
nonacademic jobs.
No gender differences could be found regarding research funding, finding a permanent
nonacademic research position, or pursuing alternative
careers.
Academia now serves as a «training ground» rather than a
career destination for the great majority of scientists, with work in industry, government, or other
nonacademic employers the «new norm.»
These new skills enable graduate students and postdocs to enter the next stage of their
careers better informed and equipped to adapt to challenges the academic or
nonacademic world sends their way.
This «misalignment between the narrow preparation PhD candidates receive and the broad array of
careers they pursue» can seriously complicate their efforts to land a suitable and satisfying
nonacademic job.
«Students tend to define science
careers as simply «academic» or «
nonacademic» — but that does a disservice to the range of
nonacademic possibilities,» explains Michael Alvarez, director of Stanford School of Medicine's Career Center.
In service of that institutional need, academic culture has fostered the misleading narrative that graduate school and postdoc positions are solely intended to prepare young scientists for academic research
careers rather than for a range of
nonacademic and even nonresearch endeavors.
Not all scientists at the conference intend to struggle for an academic position; those interested in alternative
career paths met representatives of industry and
nonacademic research institutions at a series of workshops.
And former postdocs today have a wide range of
nonacademic scientific
careers.
He writes a blog called Dr. Sustainable, where he communicates his research to a
nonacademic audience, discusses early -
career academic life, and shares teaching tips.
We have often mentioned in this space that many
nonacademic employers complain that early -
career scientists don't understand business culture and such practices as budgeting and project management.
Choosing a
career outside of academia is daunting, and not many academic advisers know much about the positions that exist or how to be competitive for them, so I guess I'm mostly thankful for postgraduates in
nonacademic positions for sharing their knowledge!
The tree, regular readers will not be surprised to learn, leans left, in that there are many more — and more varied —
careers branching out from the «
nonacademic» side of the trunk.
But in 1985, starting in Minnesota, states began looking at dual enrollment as a way to prepare even average students for college and to move
nonacademic - minded kids into
career and technical education.