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Questions tagged [career-path]

Queries related to progression of academics in various capacities from a student to a professor and the various stages involved in the process.

Queries related to progression of academics in various capacities from a student to a professor and the various stages involved in the process.

A general definition would be

A career path refers to the careers available to you after you complete certain studies and entry-level jobs within a company.

OR

from Cambridge Dictionaries Online

the way that you progress in your work, either in one job or in a series of jobs

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How independent should an academic be?

I am a computational scientist and I often find myself much more productive when working with others with resonating mind. When working alone, my motivation level is lower, distracted more easily, and I feel the progress is slower. However, in…
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Thriving in a competitive lab

My advisor has bred a very competitive lab culture where students frequently compete for power and attention. I am not naive to think this is uncommon, and I suspect many PhD students are by nature very competitive. My overall question is this: How…
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Is a math degree really useless financially?

I graduated in December 2018 with a double degree in math and electrical engineering and have applied to various graduate schools in pure math and electrical engineering and have been offered admission to phd programs in pure math and electrical…
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How can I recover the lost time in my career?

I had clinical depression. Because of that, I lost 5 years of my life. To put things in perspective - I am starting as a Ph.D. student this year, but my undergraduate classmates have already completed Ph.D. plus one postdoc. If I want to become an…
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Can I reasonably move universities every few years for professional work?

My real love is scientific computing, but I'm generally interested in nearly every academic field — through undergrad I've had research computing positions in social psychology, electrical engineering, volcanology, and pharmaceutical sciences. Now…
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How young is typically “young”?

I was reading about a “young researcher award” recently being attributed in my field to a colleague who is 40 years old (and has had a permanent research position for 12 years now). It may be viewed as borderline ridiculous, so I must ask: in this…
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What kind of opportunities exist in the industry for someone with a Ph.D in theoretical CS?

I'm curious to know what kind of choices does someone with a recent Ph.D in theoretical CS have, in the industrial research labs, and how to find out about existing opportunities. In particular, I'm looking for: Links to sites where such…
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How can I show local universities that I am someone they will want to hire in a few years?

I've split this question into a general question that I feel applies to many people and specific details for those who are interested. General question:I have accepted a 2-year teaching/research position in my home state and would like to look for a…
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I want to leave my tenure track position before fall. I have great prospects but no new position "locked up": when should I break the news?

I am a relatively new tenure track faculty member at my school. For many reasons, I am certain I want to leave my current position. All of my reasons are professional reasons; there are no relocation issues or anything like that. I do not have a…
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How much of advantage do US citizens have in American academia?

How much of a disadvantage are you if you are not a US citizen, but want to enter American academia? It seems Americans have lots of advantages starting early, including NSF graduate fellowships, continuing with more access to DARPA money,…
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How important is a online reputation for academics?

I catch myself too often thinking about how to become more visible and present online instead of doing Great Research™. But how important is it to be very visible online for academics and researcher anyway? Here are my assumptions, numbered only for…
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transition from academia to industry

I am currently doing a post-doc in pure Math [teaching and research] in the US. The academic year 2014-2015 will be my last postdoc year and I am currently considering my next employment possibilities. For several reasons, I am considering a job…
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Paving one's way out of academia

The current research climate favors the proliferation of many early-career-stage researchers (PhD students, postdocs) who have not enough places to go if they want to stay in academic research (recent Nature article on the issue). The amount of…
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Referee reports not coming

It happened the third time to me and I start wondering what is going on? I have submitted two papers since May last year (11 months) and didn't get any answer. I wrote to the editors and they answered to me the following: One of them said that it…
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Work in an area or work on problems?

I have a question about two possible career paths, for which I was unable to come up a better title. Let me explain what I mean: Path 1, Working in an area: By this I mean, making a career by adding to the knowledge of a field of study. This may…
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