Sentences with phrase «postdocs alternative career»

So I am directly competing with industry employers in those fields, which makes it really easy for me to show my students and postdocs alternative career options.

Not exact matches

The Quest for a Post-PhD Career by Ireena Dutta, 31 August 2001 Here's how, after deciding against pursuing a postdoc, Ireena Dutta began to think about the many possible alternative careers she could choose.

Personally, I didn't start looking at alternative careers until my second year as a postdoc.

It's OK to take a short postdoc position to buy time exploring alternative careers, but if you're serious about an academic career, you must identify the postdoc lab that will maximize your chances of long - term academic success.

Many postdocs are searching for alternatives that allow them to stay within their chosen fields but keep their career options open.

Now, many postdocs in both science and the arts face an undefined future with little or no help in developing an alternative career plan.

A field with a higher share of postdocs is likely to have stiffer competition for scarce academic careers, and a large proportion of postdocs very likely indicates that the field offers few compelling alternatives to the academic track.

I can't help wondering why, if only 15 % to 20 % of grad students and postdocs go on to academic careers, do we describe the career choices of the other 80 % as «alternative»?

Within the lab I bounced ideas off a colleague and chatted to other postdocs who were expressing similar feelings and doubts about their future career and investigating such alternatives as patent work, investment banking, and technology transfer.

Johnson Phillips advises pursuing activities that will build a postdoc's resume in the desired area, be that teaching, industry, research, or an alternative career.

To balance Next Wave's original (and continuing) focus on «alternative» careers, the U.S. site launches — with the financial assistance of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund — the Career Development Center for Postdocs and Junior Faculty.

More and more PhDs, educated in a culture that has long viewed — and, in many places, still views — positions outside the academy not as valid career options for serious scientists but as «alternative employment» at best and «going over to the dark side» at worst, began accepting postdoc positions in the belief that additional publications would improve their chance to land that coveted faculty post.

Many postdocs become staff scientists in industry or follow one of any number of alternative career paths.

It's also important for everyone to understand that this holds true even if a Ph.D. candidate or postdoc wants an alternative career.

The current postdoc system of «5 to 8 years of postdoctoral work followed by an «alternative career»» is broken, he says, and isn't giving most scientists enough of a chance to find meaningful work.

With the goal of engaging and informing the student and postdoc population of the ASCB, the Communications Subcommittee maintains the COMPASS Points Blog, a forum where postdocs and students can find information about ASCB programs / events, opportunities for networking, information about alternative careers, and career advancement opportunities.