Sentences with phrase «nonacademic jobs»

This is slowly changing, but we need to keep pushing to change the culture so that PIs think highly of not only the academic but also the nonacademic jobs that their trainees go on to take.

Our four panelists that night included Andrew Morehead and Kathie Sindt, who presented «good» and «bad» faculty interviewing scenarios, and Grant Reed and Cindy Bouchez, both patent attorneys, who revealed to the audience what kinds of questions they can expect to face when interviewing for nonacademic jobs — in patent law in this instance.

And those female Ph.D. scientists with small children — the scientists least likely to get tenure - track positions — «are disproportionately likely to be employed in contingent professorships and are less likely to be working in nonacademic jobs.»

- Do you attend and participate in networking opportunities and training events related to nonacademic jobs?

However, a growing number of universities, professional societies, and governmental science offices have put together forums, workshops, and online resources for students and postdocs to make themselves more competitive for nonacademic jobs.

Where nonacademic jobs once required skills that did not carry over to academia, that's not necessarily the case these days, says Gregory Kopf, who spent more than two decades at the University of Pennsylvania before moving to Wyeth Research.

Though the course's focus stood squarely on the needs of the academic scientist, many of the skills taught, such as time management, project management, collaborations, and mentoring, carry over to nonacademic jobs as well.

And their professors, having spent entire careers in academe, often lack the knowledge and experience needed to advise them on finding nonacademic jobs.

The COSEPUP report suggested that the postdoc population was stabilizing in response to «better information and opportunities in the nonacademic job market.»

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.

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.

Although the BLS report cautions that applicants for full - time college faculty positions will still face «keen competition,» job prospects should improve, especially in fields such as computer science and engineering, in which attractive nonacademic job opportunities are available.

Well - qualified and savvy Ph.D. scientists could very likely land substantially more lucrative offers on their own, but the program serves a useful purpose by aiming to ease the way to a first industrial position for scientists unfamiliar with or intimidated by the nonacademic job market.

Not exact matches

Thousands of Ph.D. holders unable to obtain faculty jobs search for other opportunities despite lack of training for nonacademic employment, while many faculty investigators struggle, often futilely, to win funding amid intense competition.

Ex-postdocs who take nonacademic employment start out earning less than contemporaries who took jobs right after their Ph.D. s, and their incomes never catch up.

The areas with the most nonacademic scientists of a particular type are also those with the largest number of jobs in the field.

Knowing how your own personal goals mesh with the job you're applying for is crucial in any line of work, the nonacademics insist.

Rather, we should educate our young researchers on the broad range of nonacademic, professionally fulfilling job options that can be found out there.

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.

Moving On in Your Career — A guide for academic researchers and postgraduates, Lynda Ali & Barbara Graham, Routledgefalmer, (ISBN 0 -415-17870-3) which contains one of the best examples of a nonacademic CV I've seen, and University Researchers and the Job Market for yet more examples and advice.

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.

SR: Potential nonacademic benefits include expanded access to job networks, more interracial friendships, and enhanced access to educational networks, including private schools and colleges.

On Aug. 24, the women, all of whom work in nonacademic positions, filed individual charges with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission; the same charges were also filed by the union with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars job discrimination on...

In her first year on the job, Jewell - Sherman launched Excellence for All, a comprehensive plan aimed at improving teaching and learning to enable students to reach high academic standards, and promoting involvement with the community as a way of addressing nonacademic barriers to student achievement.

In that job, I was often confronted by the glaring disconnect between my school's academic priorities — I was charged with preparing students for the New York Global Studies Regents exam — and my students» nonacademic needs.