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06 Jun 2018 | 13:00 BST

How product management could be a route out of academia for PhDs and postdocs

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #ScientistOnTheMove, Ask the expert, Business, Career paths, Scientists on the move, Technology, US

How product management could be a route out of academia for PhDs and postdocs

Let’s face it. Job prospects for PhD candidates and postdoctoral scientists are dismal. In 2012, a study on the biomedical research workforce, conducted by the National Institutes of Health and pictorialized by the American Society for Cell Biology, showed that there is a significant number of biology PhDs in the US who have resorted to doing non-science jobs. Those who stay in science face financial penalties: one 2017 Nature Biotechnology study  demonstrated postdocs, on average, forfeit 20% of their earning potential within the first 15 years of completing their PhD program.  Read more

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02 Mar 2018 | 13:00 GMT

A year in the life: from the lab bench to the writing desk

Posted by Rebecca Wild | Categories: Academia, Blog, Career paths, Mobility, Postdoc

A year in the life: from the lab bench to the writing desk

After spending nearly ten years of training in academia, I realized a year into my postdoc that this career path was no longer an option for me — I no longer wanted to be part of the vicious cycle of publications, grant money and experiment-bending to fit a bottom line.  Read more

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  • academia
  • alternative career
  • career change
  • career path
  • journalism
  • Judith Reichel
  • Leaving academia
  • network
  • postdoc
  • scientific writing

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17 Nov 2017 | 13:00 GMT

What Can You Be with a PhD?

Posted by Rebecca Wild | Categories: Academia, Career paths, CV, Events, Industry

What Can You Be with a PhD?

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  • #PhD
  • academia
  • alternative career
  • alternative careers
  • career
  • careers
  • elisa lazzari
  • NYU
  • panel discussion
  • Visa
  • WCUB

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27 Jun 2017 | 08:00 BST

Career success: Reframe your thinking

Posted by Karen Kaplan | Categories: Academia, Admin, Career paths, Communication, Perspectives, Postdoc, Relationships, Research, Uncategorized, US

Career success: Reframe your thinking

Milgram, who spoke at NIH’s 10th annual Career Symposium in May, says that junior scientists, including graduate students and postdocs, need to become active participants in their career development, and that a chief component of that participation is talking with people about various career paths. “Talk with them — and learn from them,” she told her symposium audience.  Read more

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  • career
  • career development
  • PhD student
  • postdoc

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