Timeline for What's the shortest "acceptable" postdoc length?
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| Aug 17, 2017 at 4:54 | vote | accept | Elabore | ||
| Jul 24, 2017 at 21:43 | comment | added | Dan Romik | Your question is based on the somewhat suspicious premise that an industrial recruiter cares about how long you stayed in your postdoc... Good answer, but I think you are sacrificing accuracy for politeness. "Somewhat suspicious" should really say "manifestly false". | |
| Jul 24, 2017 at 13:41 | comment | added | Fábio Dias | postdocs are temporary by nature. Its an internship. A postdoc leaving midway shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.... | |
| Jul 24, 2017 at 10:19 | comment | added | Samthere | @Inkblot "nobody will wait a year for an employee"; That's not true. People generally won't want to wait a year to fill a specific position. However, there are plenty of companies with ongoing needs (such as consultancy, large development teams) who require skills and ability to learn for long-term business rather than specific projects. These organisations may well be perfectly happy to offer a position for a year later. | |
| Jul 24, 2017 at 9:58 | comment | added | xLeitix | "some postdoc positions might only be reasonable to leave in July or so" If that's your experience, then sure - but I am willing to bet that 90%+ of postdocs, at least in CS, are much more flexible than that. Source: have been a postdoc for 5-ish years, and know dozens of postdocs who quit half-way. Note that your mentor may not love you leaving during a project, but at some point you need to find a compromise between the needs of your mentor and your own, and waiting for many months to go on the job market to make it less inconvenient for her/him might not be the correct tradeoff for you. | |
| Jul 24, 2017 at 7:35 | comment | added | Ink blot | @JessicaB: All the positions I've encountered in the US were "teaching included" and they were not "teaching position in disguise", it's just what is expected of you. In most of the other cases you apply for a grant, and you are expected to stay and see that research through, or give back a hefty sum of money (which they may or may not pursue, I don't know). Of course, if someone hires you as a postdoc, then you can leave whenever you want (especially if you let them know this might happen, and they agreed to hire you anyway). | |
| Jul 24, 2017 at 7:29 | comment | added | Jessica B | @Inkblot A postdoc position shouldn't have a notice period of nearly a year, unless it is really a teaching position under another name (and even then...). By 'only reasonable to leave in July' you mean if you are looking for an academic position in the northern hemisphere, or from the point of view of the supervisor, not for the postdoc wanting to move to industry. | |
| Jul 24, 2017 at 7:25 | comment | added | Ink blot | I think your advice is sound. On paper. In real life, some postdoc positions might only be reasonable to leave in July or so, making "find a position now" almost silly, nobody will wait a year for an employee. And on the other hand, an industry job hunt which has a strong research side to it will benefit from having an active academic profile. | |
| Jul 24, 2017 at 7:04 | history | edited | xLeitix | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 24, 2017 at 6:57 | history | answered | xLeitix | CC BY-SA 3.0 |