I recently enrolled in a university program, lets call it X. X is a relatively new department trying to grow and currently includes about 30 people. The title is Professional doctorate in engineering (PDEng) and it resembles being a PhD candidate (i have a salary but i do not teach or perform research, instead i work with industrial partners on various projects). As far as i know this kind of position only exists in the Netherlands.
After some months I started doubting whether I am a good fit for the program since the projects are not really interesting for me. At the same time I know about another PDEng program, lets say Y, offered by the same university with equal salary which might better fit my career prospects.
I am now thinking of applying for an interview, however this could be tricky. I do not want to talk with my current program director in advance, in case I get rejected by Y. For the same reason I would like the director of program Y not to contact my current employer.
I have the following 2 specific questions:
1) Should I ask Y's director for discretion by mentioning my reasons?
2) Is it possible/probable that i will automatically get rejected since im proven to be unreliable/unmotivated?
This question: Switching between different graduate departments within the same graduate school? refers to graduate programs, whereas I am a salaried employee, therefore i think my director will be quite unhappy since he has "invested" in me somewhat.
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is a informal and generally passive construction. Just to confirm, you enrolled (as in it's not something that was done to you). (2) how large is your institution / how close are the two PDEng faculties? (graduate school of 500 vs 10000 really changes things). – virmaior Mar 28 '17 at 15:09