Career Magazine

How do you see your career path? Like a confusing maze with too many choices and conflicting directions? Or steep and rocky, with lots of opportunities to trip up? In any case, you needn´t panic. Our U.K. CareerDoctor will guide you through the career maze with an advice-packed column tailored to meet your needs. How can we tell? Because you will be asking the questions! So, why wait, ask the
CareerDoctor for advice today!

"If the postdoc position was considered a regular job, the security and status issues would diminish, as the researcher would benefit from the usual employee rights and benefits in the work environment."

"From the point of view of the host laboratory, postdocs are very often considered to be cheap and easy-to-get labour."

"The best way to maintain the ranks of physical scientists is to ensure that science jobs pay well and that science careers are attractive relative to alternatives."

"Sometimes you might have a problem with a professor; sometimes you might feel that you are losing time; and then later you might feel that you are not good enough or that you don’t have what it takes."

"In my experience, if you do poorly on the first test and are constantly playing catch-up in a class, then something is very wrong and you should seriously consider giving it another try next semester."

"The fundamental problem with many conventional project management frameworks is probably even more relevant to science than it is to business: They simply aren’t adaptive enough."

“The beauty of this field is that it is truly multidisciplinary, requiring skills in molecular biology, biochemistry, bioinformatics, physics, and even medical sciences. "

"Only when we have high-quality basic research in various fields and can work at the cutting edge of knowledge will we have the capacity to absorb frontier technologies and adapt them for our use."

"Treating minority students differently can undermine their self-confidence and might lead to poor performance."

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