Sentences with phrase «outside of your academic career»

This is all on top of trying to maintain some sort of personal life outside of your academic career.

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As graduate students and postdocs, you likely know that the majority of Ph.D. scientists enter rewarding careers outside the traditional academic track.

Many students and postdocs are ill - equipped to make informed decisions about whether to pursue academic careers, while those students who are set on a career outside of academia lament the few opportunities readily available.

So, at long last it appears that at least some young scientists are listening not to the traditional blandishments of an academic system in need of their cheap labor, but rather to an unmistakable economic signal urging them to improve their personal situations by seeking careers outside of academe.

Devi recommended developing an individual career plan early on in your career and consulting with mentors who can tell you whether you're likely to achieve your academic goals or whether you would be better off pursuing a different line of research or a career outside of academia.

For some researchers this makes their dreams of an academic career come true, but for quite a lot of others it is just the result of not considering the countless fascinating career paths they might follow outside academia.

In a survey of nearly 6,000 doctoral students in a broad range of fields, more than a third of the students with plans to pursue postdocs said they had more interest in careers outside of academic research.

Some of these activities focused on future academic research careers, and others focused on science - related careers outside academia.

A new study of science PhDs who embarked on careers between 2004 and 2014 showed that while nearly two - thirds chose employment outside academic science, their reasons for doing so had little to do with the advice they received from faculty advisors, other scientific mentors, family, or even graduate school peers.

Finally, the report noted that most biomedical graduate programs and postdocs in the United States do little to prepare biomedical scientists for careers outside of academia even though considerably fewer than half (43 %) wind up in academic research or teaching and fewer than a quarter (23 %) wind up tenured.

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!

Does the division of household labor vary between academic couples (where both partners are academics — and in this sample at least one is a scientist) and other dual - career couples (where one partner is a scientist and one is employed outside the home)?

«Too many [PhD] students are graduating for a limited number of professor positions with minimal training for careers outside of academic research,» noted Don Gibson, a PhD candidate studying plant genetics at UC Davis.

Thinking a little farther outside the usual K — 12 philanthropic box: We've recently seen a raft of rigorous new academic standards and better tests, all of them said to be aimed at making every student «college - and career - ready.»

The amount of stress in the present academic career has made it important for the students to look for help outside.