Career is a person's "course or progress through life (or a distinct portion of life)". Questions related to academic career comes under this tag.
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How does your area of research affect your chances of getting job in academia?
I've heard that the trendiness of your area of work is one of the important factor that has am impact your chances of getting job in academia. How far is this true?
Also, how do I decide what areas ...
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How specialised should research prior to tenure be?
When establishing yourself as a researcher, the importance of independence from your PhD supervisor and focusing on a niche area (to establish popularity in a particular sub-field) are fairly ...
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How realistic is it to get a good job a math degree (other than a teacher/professor)? [closed]
I want to get a bachelor's or above in pure mathematics. What kinds of jobs could I get with such a degree, and would they be at least average pay? Thanks!
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How is academic career progression different in Germany vs. USA [closed]
How is academic career progression different in Germany vs. USA
in terms of supervision, giving credit in papers or academic freedom.
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How important is to maintain an online/digital presence for a graduate student? [duplicate]
I am a graduate student in the physical sciences working towards my Ph.D and planning to finish in less than two years from now. In this age, where data mining/collection/analysis and then ...
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What is the best before date on a personal referee?
I am in the not completely unusual position of having an eight year period between my Master's and PhD degrees. During this time I was gainfully employed in a completely unrelated and non-academic ...
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How to evaluate undergrad programs when eventually aiming for PhD?
My daughter has a strong interest in theoretical computer science, and she has just been admitted to several different universities as a freshman. She is just a bright student, not a genius, with a ...
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Non academic career options for PhD in Math
I am currently preparing to get my M.S. in Computer Science. I chose C.S. because I enjoy programming and because its a solid choice, career wise. Low unemployment, good pay, all that jazz.
But my ...
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What should new faculty focus on when meeting with the university public relations representative?
I am a new faculty member at a medium-sized liberal arts university that focuses on undergraduate education. I have recently been contacted by the university public relations representative and he ...
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Are employments in universities affiliated (or named) with a specific religion restricted to people with the same religion?
I just saw an ad in mathjobs.org about an opening in a Catholic university, see here. I am not christian. So I was wondering to be eligible for employment in a university or college affiliated with a ...
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How important is the publication venue for academic hiring and grant applications?
A comment in this question says: but spending some money to publish in a high rank journal can open more funding opportunities in future, doesn't it?. In another post, JeffE writes in this answer:
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How important is a online reputation for academics? [duplicate]
I catch myself too often thinking about how to become more visible and present online instead of doing Great Research™.
But how important is it to be very visible online for academics and researcher ...
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What is an academic sabbatical
The Wikipedia definition of sabbatical doesn't match how I think of an academic sabbatical. What does it mean to go on academic sabbatical, and does it depend on the country?
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How hard do early-career academics in the United States work, really?
I'm finishing a PhD in Sweden this year and seeking a post-doc in the United States (atmospheric remote sensing). It is clear that a job in academia is not a nine to five job; nor do I want it to be. ...
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Can the publication conference choice affect one's admission to a new academic job?
Sometimes, I have been noticing some postdoc open position announcements that, besides the common requisites for the admisssion (PhD, an excellent cv, programming skills, etc), were asking to the ...
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writing a research statement
I am a graduate student in mathematics working on functional analysis of quantum information (basically using matrix techniques in some well-known problems). I am presently applying for postdoctoral ...
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How hard for someone who already has tenure to find a tenured position elsewhere?
I am in my second year as an Associate Professor (with tenure) at a top research university (listed among top 20 in US News & World Report in my field). My publication, teaching, and service ...
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Transition from PhD to postdoc with an intent to change field
I'm in the following situation: In 3 months, I'll finish my PhD in theoretical physics, and I'm certain that I want to pursue an academic career. However, I'm just as certain that my PhD research is a ...
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Statement of Purpose in Graduate School Application
First, I hope this isn't the wrong place to put a question like this.
I have a very specific graduate school question. I graduated last spring with my BS and intended to go to graduate school. I ...
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How to formalise the “extra-mile” work done by an academic?
In my experience, academics are almost always expected to contribute some of their time to activities beyond their principal teaching or research roles. These extra tasks include, for example, ...
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How to choose to which conference submit a scientific paper?
Nowadays, in almost every scientific field, there are hundreds of conferences. Many call for papers emails fill our mail boxes.
Freedom of choice is great, but, how to choose to which conference send ...
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To ask for a PostDoc position in the university X, is better to do it by myself or to ask to my supervisor?
I am a PhD student in artificial intelligence from an European university. This year I am going to finish my PhD program, so I am looking around to search for a suitable Postdoc position.
I would ...
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How Long Should a Professor Stay?
When you accept a tenure-track position in the USA, how long are you expected to stay? Does it look bad if you change jobs a couple times after a few years at each university? Is there an unspoken ...
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Important factors for hiring a young mathematician
Let's list important factors for evaluation of a job candidate (for research post doc, assistant professor, tenure track, etc):
Research experience (research articles, research talks, expository ...
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Making an appointment regarding letters of recommendation
My University is currently on break, so I'd be making the appointment by email, and then meeting separately to discuss it.
In the email, is it a good idea to say explicitly that the appointment is ...
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Rumor mill and math job
After starting the application process this year, I found a wiki page at UC Davis that lists people who have supposedly been shortlisted, invited for interviews, or given offers for faculty positions ...
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How young is typically “young”?
I was reading about a “young researcher award” recently being attributed in my field to a colleague who is 40 years old (and has had a permanent research position for 12 years now). It may be viewed ...
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Optimal journal publications strategy (academic career)
Suppose that I've written 10 academic papers. Which CV is the best for academic appointments?
5 publications in mid-high ranked journals, 5 in low ranked (but nevertheless peer-reviewed) journals.
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How to contact a potential PostDoc advisor?
Reading this very interesting question ("How long before PhD graduation should I start applying for post-doc positions?") about "when", suddenly I started to reason on the "how" issue.
Imagine you ...
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Internships for PhD students (e.g. in data science or programming)
I still have 2-2.5 years of my PhD program, but it want to try my skills in programing, especially in the taste of data science (needless to say, I do it overnight for some hobby projects and I like ...
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Move from my current university or stay with a longer term proposal?
I'm currently in a disjunctive regarding my professional life, and I would like a bit of an advice.
I'm finishing my PhD next March (is Japan, so is 99.9999% sure that I will finish), and I have 2 ...
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Manuscript in pipeline, corresponding author between jobs
What happens to manuscripts needing revision while the corresponding author is between academic jobs?
Not every academic will always find a new position seamlessly after the previous one. For ...
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MSc for experienced professional?
I have 8 years of IT experience in India, I want to do a Master of Science in the US.
Would my already long professional experience hurt my chances to find a job after the MSc? I intend to settle in ...
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How can I apply to be an adjunct faculty?
I am currently a staff researcher at a public research university in the US. While a tenure-track position may be in my future, I would like some of the opportunities and responsibilities now. In ...
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What contents should I put on my academic website?
I'm planing to setup a personal academic website. From visiting other researchers websites I have a rough idea of the things I want to put on it:
- Research interests
- List of articles & ...
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How do recruiters consider parental leave in one's career path?
It used to be that mostly women would take maternity leave, and in the field where I work it would be accounted for by a hiring committee. Most likely, someone would say “yeah, there is a dip in X’s ...
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What are the pros and cons of multidisciplinary research?
Does doing multidisciplinary research enhance one's employment opportunities compared to doing a degree in "basic" sciences?
For example, is a Ph.D. in Nano-science/Nano-technology in any way better ...
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When to change a research focus
Some say that a person should change the work field every 5 to 7 years in order to stay productive and avoid stagnation. How does this apply to academia, for example, changing a research focus?
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Should one research multiple independent topics while pursuing a PhD?
While pursuing a PhD in an experimental field, one usually researches a given topic and conducts experiments that are rather closely related to this topic and one another. I imagine this ...
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Is it a bad idea to take a leave of absence to finish a degree?
In general, is it better to complete a graduate degree first before deciding to work? Or is it also advisable to take a leave of absence and work while finish your graduate degree later?
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What are the various designations/stages in the academic career of the person
In context of a person's academic profile in a web application, I need to broadly classify the various degree/designations/stages in the academic career of the person.
For example I would like to ...
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Pursuing a Second Master's Degree(Part Time) : pros and cons
I am currently working in a manufacturing company as a software developer and have just completed my masters in control and automation in 2011 with my bachelors in "Electrical and Electronics". My ...
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Are pay announcements worth their price to hire people?
Recently in my university research group (scientific fields: computer science and bioinformatics) we had some open positions for PhD students and PostDoc.
For the hiring phase, we decided to insert ...
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How do “scientific couples” (from different fields) find positions?
When two people in a couple are both in science, but specialised in different fields, how can they both find relevant positions but still be geographically reasonably proximate?
Compromise and change ...
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How to “cultivate” a postdoc position during PhD program?
Imagine you're a PhD student, and you found a research group, in another university, that you'd like to join for a PostDoc period.
You want to join that group because you really like their subjects, ...
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Engineers/Scientists to break into management consulting
Engineers and Scientists are probably not the kind of people management consulting companies look for. But I think many of such would be highly qualified and a good fit for management consulting ...
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Paper stolen by a co author and published as his own [duplicate]
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My research work stolen and published as his own by the co author without my consent
My research paper was stolen by a co author and now i have reported against her but ...
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Who actually is a Post-Doctoral fellow?
Many of us often talk about Bachelor's and Master's students, PhD students, researchers, professors, and postdocs.
But, do we know what we actually intend when we say "Post-Doc"?
We all know that a ...
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Is work experience necessary for tenure-track positions?
In India, a minimum of 3 years of work experience is necessary to be appointed as an assistant professor in any of the IITs. (Years during the PhD or master's are not counted, but any year spent ...
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Grad school options
I'm currently doing a master's degree near my home state and have been offered to continue at the same grad school with a PhD. The funding side of things has yet to be confirmed, but is almost secure. ...
