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Regarding Post-Doctoral appointments, duties and job-hunt.
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How do you "grow your own" post doc opportunity?
I am a finishing doctoral student (graduation in ~7-9 months) and I would love to get an year or so of postdoctoral experience. I've come to understand that a postdoc is generally paid by funds create …
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Accepted post-doc and have subsequently received offers for full time faculty position - qua...
After my PhD (Mechanical engineering) in 2013, I have been employed as a "visiting assistant professor-TERM" for 2013-2014 at the same university (in the USA). In this time I have been applying for se …
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What do principal investigators (PIs) look for in prospective post docs?
I've always wondered if PIs look for a perfect fit for their projects. For instance, a post doc vacancy is advertised as follows:
Must have completed PhD with 3 peer reviewed journal articles.
Must …
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Decision making paradigm for career planning
Despite receiving a job (post-doc) offer in January I have kept applying to other positions (post-doc and teaching track jobs). This was not a bad idea in retrospect, I suppose
This post doc job offe …
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Prospect of pro-bono/voluntary work with current advisor after graduating with PHD
As an international student in the united states, I am legally allowed to work for 12 months, extendable to 29months for STEM fields, after graduating with my PhD (or masters degree for that matter) w …
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On the verge of being "fired" from post-doc position, how to act towards supervisor?
I am in month 5 of an extremely unfulfilling post doc position in France. My sole responsibility is debugging 10k+ lines of spaghetti C++ code. I am a mechanical engineer and although I did my PhD wit …
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How to make the most of a currently unfulfilling post-doc experience
How to make the most of an nnfulfilling post-doc experience
Before I pose my question, I would first like to describe the circumstances and provide as much "quantitative data" relevant to this as pos …
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Renewal of postdoctoral appointment
I noticed during my application process for post-doc jobs that several say "1-2 year appointment" or "possible renewal for second year". I understand from this answer that it is in everyone's benefit …