Not exact matches
Only a minority of the
postdocs working in university labs have opportunities to receive high - quality training from eminent senior researchers, develop their own research ideas, gain experience in lab management and grant writing, acquire contacts and a publication record and, ultimately,
move into a tenure - track
position at a research institution.
For those
postdocs with
positions in industry or at national laboratories, the experience often provides a sound basis for
moving into a permanent career.
Does this
move postdocs into nontenure track
positions?
Luckily, the facility where I am currently a
postdoc has a non-tenure-track staff scientist
position that my PI has agreed to
move me
into later this year.
Employment History: At some future date, you will
move postdoc positions into your Education section, but most Science Careers readers will want to include them in the employment section so that their work history seems more substantial.
As I wrote in my first Next Wave article, I was deciding between continuing along the academic path — doing a
postdoc and applying for faculty
positions — and
moving over
into industry and accepting a research or management
position there.
Inferring that faculty appointments in the biomedical sciences would be subject to the same trends, it is likely that UCSF
postdocs move into faculty
positions at a rate higher than the national average, and maybe far higher than some individual institutions.