Timeline for How is a PhD student staying in their institution as a postdoc perceived by future employers?
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| Sep 2, 2020 at 14:39 | comment | added | Voo | @Vladhagen "They'll move, just like all the rest of us when we get a job". A very American attitude to things like your center of living. Just beware that the same does very much not apply to large swaths of the rest of the world. | |
| Sep 1, 2020 at 21:18 | comment | added | Vladhagen | @4galaxy7 MIT is 2 miles from Harvard. Boston University is also right there. It's not like it's in the middle of Alaska or something. Sure, we can fabricate reasons for never moving. But what is this supposed candidate going to do when they don't get a job 1 mile from Boston? They'll move, just like all the rest of us when we get a job. | |
| Sep 1, 2020 at 19:11 | comment | added | user438383 | @Vladhagen what if they had family, friends and a house In Harvard and didn’t want to leave that behind them? It’s down to a lack of imagination that one could not find a better criteria to discriminate between candidates than whether or not they’ve stayed at an institution their whole career. | |
| Sep 1, 2020 at 16:47 | comment | added | Vladhagen | @nick012000 If they were so great that they could do a PhD/Postdoc at Harvard, why not drive up the road to Princeton? It's not the quality of work I worry about here--it's the fact that they just spent the last decade plus at one institution with one way of thinking. | |
| Sep 1, 2020 at 16:22 | comment | added | Reid | General opinion: "Prestigious" has only a loose correlation with quality across many types of thing, but definitely for institutions. | |
| Sep 1, 2020 at 16:21 | comment | added | Reid | @nick012000: Absolutely, and in fact perhaps more so, because I might wonder if the candidate was able to function outside a highly privileged environment. | |
| Sep 1, 2020 at 6:06 | comment | added | nick012000 | "I would question a postdoc who did his or her BS+MS+PhD+Postdoc all at the same place" What if they were Ivy League, or some similarly prestigious school like MiT or Oxbridge? | |
| Aug 31, 2020 at 18:10 | history | edited | Vladhagen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 31, 2020 at 18:04 | history | answered | Vladhagen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |