Sentences with phrase «own academic job»

«When I was going on the academic job market, worrying about the campus interview, my friend Matt Seigel told me to just be myself because otherwise, if I got hired as the person I was pretending to be, I would have to keep up that pretense for the rest of my career,» she says.

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The Ph.D. used to be a union card to an academic job.

«Among many surprising things about the life of Albert Einstein was the trouble he had in getting an academic job.»

I found when our income dropped in our lower paying academic jobs the foreign tax credit got phased out.

Insofar as Crisis on Campus identifies pressing problems» the financial plight of universities and the difficulties graduate students have in finding permanent academic jobs» it can be useful.

By his way of thinking, the most pressing problems include a dramatic drop in college and university endowments, an ever increasing number of graduate students and recent PhDs who will likely never secure full - time academic jobs, and a graying, backward - looking professoriate that refuses to get out of the way.

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Soon afterwards, as luck would have it, my husband was able to move his academic job to a branch campus much closer to home.

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Academic job searches are rarely local, and the job market in rural New Hampshire for Ph.D. - level physicists is not exactly robust.

I read this article and hit me with a thousands bricks... I am 36 yo woman finishing up my post doc... of course single... irony is that I am writing my research proposal for academic job application... (I have my PhD so it is too late to quit now)... but still The Extra Hurdles Of Being A Female PhD is right

Despite no formal scientific training and no academic job, he still became one of England's leading scientists.

When he didn't get the academic job he wanted, he «turned to Twitter as a source of solace and support — and as an opportunity to learn,... what would a plan B look like?»

For all but a small percentage of aspiring researchers, doing a postdoc at a university is a lousy idea because it will neither result in an academic job nor otherwise advance one's career.

Editor's note: The academic job market is certainly tough, but some people make it.

Hoping for a relief from the intense competitiveness of most academic job searches?

Moreover, the academic job situation for astronomers in Canada has improved in the last few years, owing to the retirements of the large cohort of astronomers hired in the late 1960s and the fact that university enrolments have swelled as a result of population growth, the baby boom echo, and increased participation rate.

Although many would like a permanent academic job at the end of their contract, the reality is that there are not enough academic jobs to go round.

Over the last decade, the number of academic jobs involving mathematical biology has increased, particularly in math departments, as recognition of the field grows.

In this way, the postdoctoral experience would be more than certification of research readiness for the first academic job; it would also be a site for exploring career options and acquiring the resources needed to be successful, resilient, well - employed professionals.

Workshops were held, for example, on effective science writing, grant preparation, teaching skills, the academic job search, and how to start up a company.

In contrast to your academic job search, an advanced degree in science is not a requirement, so having one will put you at an advantage.

BN: Results that are novel are more likely to be published, and the primary currency of an academic scientist is a publication — a good publication record in prestigious journals helps you get a good academic job, funding and awards.

Samir Tabash's decision to do a postdoc in industry was based on the fact that academic jobs for PhDs in his field — analytical chemistry — were few and far between in Canada.

The SPIRE (Seeding Postdoctoral Innovators in Research and Education) program was created to provide a well - rounded training experience for postdoctoral fellows as they prepare for the academic job market.

someone who will promote you within academia and help you to meet the needs of the academic job market.

... Today I wouldn't get an academic job.

Notably, in certain regions around the world, industry experience is not only highly coveted but is a requirement for academic jobs.

Academia's Crooked Money Trail 06 January 2012 Paula Stephan's new book looks beyond rosy press releases to uncover the harsh economic realities of the academic job market.

While Balch had long practiced machine learning for his academic job, the financial application of the technology was merely a «hobby» for him at the time, he says.

Would the programs take a broader approach to career planning than just preparing scientists for academic jobs?

Rising enrollments in graduate science degree programs and relatively flat federal spending on academic science mean that, if anything, the academic job market is likely to get worse in the coming years.

«There's no excuse for not writing a cover letter that shows how your education, experience, and interests fit with what the institution is seeking,» warns Julia Miller Vick, co-author of the Academic Job Search Handbook (University of Pennsylvania Press, July 2001).

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The report calls for a battery of government and institutional measures to better support scientists on short - term contracts, including gathering comprehensive data on their working conditions, helping them devise career plans, creating more academic jobs, and encouraging them to apply for permanent positions.

«It's more than what I could have dreamed of for an academic job.»

Star professors may have larger networks of collaborators not just, as the authors suggest, because they have more students and postdocs than lower - ranked competitors, but because more of those students and postdocs win academic jobs that permit them to participate in collaborations as independent investigators; the rest just disappear from academe.

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Even the older data indicate a stagnant academic job market.

But in the 1980s academic jobs were scarce.

Her goal: a stylish but versatile outfit that would be appropriate at a science conference, in a «corporate casual» work environment, or in an academic job interview — in other words, the killer outfit.

Her aim is «to parlay all of my education and training into an academic job.

Apparently, Singh says, IRACDA postdocs are finding academic jobs at a higher rate than their peers who do traditional postdocs.

Each country has its own academic job titles and — often unwritten — career paths, making an international job search thorny and opaque.

Of respondents to the Snowmass Young Physicists survey, 60 % said they planned to pursue an academic job, says Jonathan Asaadi, 32, a postdoc at Syracuse University in New York and a Snowmass YPM co-convener — even though just as many expect funding for particle physics to continue to decline in coming years.

Stories abound of a single postdoc drawing more than 100 applications and the best and brightest coming up empty in their hunt for academic jobs.

«I tried to remember that if I didn't get an academic job it wasn't the end of the world,» Onyisi says.

But it's only easy for those who finish the second year of the postdoc, land the kind of academic jobs that are in vanishingly short supply, or opt to work in research in a governmental or private setting.

Whether seeking tenure - track academic jobs, industry research positions, or nontraditional science careers, many job seekers are finding that a well - honed pipette thumb is not enough to land them an offer.