Sentences with phrase «nonacademic scientists»
The areas with the most nonacademic scientists of a particular type are also those with the largest number of jobs in the field.
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As a Ph.D. atmospheric scientist (and an M.B.A.), «I've always had challenges being viewed as legitimate because I had a nonacademic plan,» she shares.
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.»
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.
Attention focused on funding, postdocs, staff scientists, and training for nonacademic careers.
In any case, eager to establish nonacademic credentials, many Ph.D. scientists are figuring things out on their own.
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.
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.
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.
The maps show how many nonacademic Ph.D. scientists in various disciplines work in each state.
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.»
Still, some nonacademic employers cling tenaciously to their preconceived notions about what Ph.D. scientists can't do.
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.
'' Young Scientists Face Demand for Broader - Based Education» discusses opportunities available to graduate students for gaining nonacademic work experience.
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.
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.
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.
A Career Opportunities Seminar Series featuring successful scientists will be established to assist scholars who select nonacademic careers in industry or elsewhere.