Sentences with phrase «postdoc holding pattern»
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Saavik Ford expected to be in a holding pattern as an astrobiology postdoc studying the chemistry behind extrasolar cometary systems.
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It's a unique field in that a large proportion of graduates end up in faculty posts — the jobs graduate school prepares them for — and yet its low postdoc numbers suggest that most graduates are placed in real jobs soon after receiving their Ph.D. s; few mathematicians, it seems, get stuck in the postdoctoral holding pattern.
Second, by comparing the number of faculty in the field to the number doing a postdoc — which besides being a training phase also serves as a holding pattern for scientists waiting and hoping for faculty jobs — we can get an idea of whether Ph.D. scientists have access to other career options they deem acceptable.
Lack of effective mentoring, she noted, is only one aspect of the «holding pattern» in which many postdocs find themselves, in some cases for as long as 7 or 8 years.
«If you just treat the postdoc as a holding pattern, it's probably a recipe for failure,» the National Postdoctoral Association's Reed asserts.