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Jun 10, 2021 at 7:45 answer added G. Fougeron timeline score: 0
Jun 9, 2021 at 13:52 comment added stackoverblown The hardest part? More candidates than available academic positions. And departments have politics of who to hire. It is not always the best candidate.
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Jun 9, 2021 at 0:55 answer added Tom timeline score: 0
Jun 9, 2021 at 0:51 comment added user136193 @EarlGrey Absolutely, I do not mean that these people have "failed" in any manner, I just mean that they have not made the transition, and that among them, there will be people who originally intended to go into a full-time career in academia.
Jun 8, 2021 at 18:48 comment added EarlGrey Please note that the remaining 9 over 10 PhDs (in the STEM area) that did not find their way in Academia usually got a good position in - research institution - public employee and similar etc - companies
Jun 8, 2021 at 18:01 answer added Houska timeline score: 11
Jun 8, 2021 at 17:49 comment added Konrad Rudolph PhD students are (almost always) full-time academics.
Jun 8, 2021 at 15:57 comment added user136193 @gerrit I think this thread provides a few statistics, but I am yet to read through it completely. It is also only for the transition from PhD's to tenured professors.
Jun 8, 2021 at 15:52 comment added gerrit This could do with an answer that looks at actual data: How many PhD students are hired per year in a given field, how many postdocs (including re-hires), and how many faculty. Preferably world wide. I expect that would confirm my experience that it's relatively easy to go from PhD to postdoc if willing to move world wide, but that going from postdoc to faculty is hard.
Jun 8, 2021 at 13:41 comment added user2705196 "Hardest" is ill-defined. Maybe one could answer a question about transition rates.
Jun 8, 2021 at 13:24 comment added user136193 @DanielR.Collins Thanks for the suggestion! Will definitely check it out.
Jun 8, 2021 at 13:17 comment added Daniel R. Collins Highly suggest you read Lantsoght, The A-Z of the PhD Trajectory (available online), esp., Sec. 13.5.1: "Transitioning from PhD Student to Faculty Member".
Jun 8, 2021 at 13:16 comment added user136193 @JyrkiLahtonen Haha, I've not yet earned a PhD, I have only just finished my undergraduate degree :)
Jun 8, 2021 at 12:42 comment added Jyrki Lahtonen Are you saying that you didn't work full time while earning the PhD? Shame on you :-)
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Jun 8, 2021 at 8:23 answer added sleepy timeline score: 12
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Jun 8, 2021 at 3:12 comment added user136193 When I say academia, I mean a full-time career in academia, affiliated to a University, conducting research, handling classes, basically a professor position.
Jun 8, 2021 at 3:03 comment added Azor Ahai -him- The title is unclear to me, PhD students are in academia
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