Timeline for Careers advice for Ph.D.s without current postdocs or university jobs
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| Dec 24, 2017 at 3:57 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 9, 2017 at 16:45 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jul 13, 2017 at 19:35 | history | protected | Asaf Karagila♦ | ||
| Apr 24, 2017 at 20:28 | answer | added | Bill Satzer | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 24, 2017 at 15:45 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | FWIW, Dr H. is no longer in academia | |
| Apr 24, 2017 at 12:51 | comment | added | user62639 | I have observed that having the right contacts (at the right time) is more important than everything else in academia (at least in Germany). | |
| Jan 10, 2014 at 2:46 | answer | added | Vinicius dos Santos | timeline score: 9 | |
| Oct 22, 2013 at 0:03 | answer | added | paul garrett | timeline score: 8 | |
| Mar 30, 2011 at 3:07 | answer | added | Najdorf | timeline score: 18 | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 17:34 | answer | added | B A Sethuraman | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 15:23 | answer | added | NimChimpsky | timeline score: 16 | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 14:43 | answer | added | Michael Hoffman | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 10:37 | answer | added | Bugs Bunny | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 8:40 | answer | added | Matthew Daws | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 7:26 | answer | added | Emerton | timeline score: 17 | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 5:09 | comment | added | alex | Karl, you are probably right; I was wrong to say that most graduate students do not teach classes. Nevertheless, if not most, then many schools only use graduate students as TAs. | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 4:50 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Kim Morrison | ||
| Jul 20, 2010 at 4:34 | answer | added | Deane Yang | timeline score: 27 | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 3:23 | comment | added | Karl Schwede | Alex, I'm not sure what you are describing is right. I think the teaching that a graduate student does varies wildly by institution (I know of a number of schools where it is very common for students to teach classes, I taught something like 5 different classes as a graduate student at the University of Washington). | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 3:22 | comment | added | Felipe Voloch | NSA/GCHQ ? Specific knowledge may not be necessary. | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 3:19 | answer | added | Igor Pak | timeline score: 60 | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 2:42 | answer | added | fedja | timeline score: 43 | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 2:20 | comment | added | Zen Harper | To answer alex and Noah Snyder: "Dr.H" has lectured M.Sc./Ph.D. courses to small classes (20 students or less), a few tutorials to very small groups (10 students or less), but no big "core" teaching courses like classes of 200 Calculus students. "Dr.H" is also not US-based and has almost no contacts in the US, unfortunately. | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 2:17 | comment | added | Zen Harper | Thanks. To answer Pete Clark: "Dr.H" is willing to consider any locations (mostly) free from crazy psychopaths, murderous criminals and cannibals (note: this is intended to be humourous), but does not have sufficient financial resources to spend several months travelling in the US or elsewhere, searching for employment (but he would be very happy to do this if he could afford it). | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 2:12 | comment | added | alex | I believe most graduate students in mathematics in the US do not teach classes, although they do grade papers, and conduct recitations (weekly problem solving sessions for first-year students). Moreover, I believe it is not uncommon for a job whose advertisement asks for teaching experience to go to someone who is fresh out of grad school and has never taught a class. So I wouldn't pay too close attention to the wording of the ads. | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 1:23 | answer | added | Greg Kuperberg | timeline score: 24 | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 1:12 | comment | added | Noah Snyder | I'm a bit confused about what sort of teaching experience Dr. H doesn't have. Is this a english vs. american issue? Like when you say "lecturing" experience you mean experience as a "lecturer" that didn't involve actual you know lecturing... | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 0:59 | history | edited | Greg Kuperberg |
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| Jul 20, 2010 at 0:54 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | It sounds like Dr. H. wants an academic job, but how much? Would he for instance be willing to relocate to a small college in a small town far away from a big city? Would he be willing to spend six months to a year not gainfully employed but traveling and visiting math departments in an intense period of partly collaborative research? Perhaps most importantly, what are his contacts like in the academic community? Is there anyone who would be inclined to pull a few strings for him? Anyone who has strings to pull? | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 0:42 | history | asked | Zen Harper | CC BY-SA 2.5 |