Don’t do a postdoc. For that matter, don’t do a PhD. It is a total racket as somebody who has a PhD and postdoc myself but has gotten out of academia. I just cannot advocate that anybody in good conscience should pursue this route.
Agreed. Grateful for the opportunity to do a PhD and almost done. But I really struggled with a reduced social life etc. Was offered the chance to do a postdoc and had to put my foot down for my own well-being. Absolutely not. I'm going to finally enjoy life lol.
I'm going to be PhD grad in material sciences but hold just one first author and 1 co authored paper. How much do you think will this affect my application for an industry? Thank you
This is an excellent video I am presently pursuing a postdoc in the US and my contract for the visa renewal is going to end in 4 months and I don't want to continue in the same lab there are many reasons for slow publication, PI is toxic in short things aren't working fine shall I try another lab and will it be a negative impression for the lab that I am applying. Also I moved before from one lab (out of my field) to this lab, there I was for a year
How to convince the other PI why you wanna switch ?? Should you tell directly? Or make some different excuses that will not harm PI's image and your as well?? Im a PhD fellow, been 3 months only and my PI says on the result of my first experiment .. what are these image? Are these worth to publish?? Like its a new field for me and i am doing my best and i am getting result in my learning experiment...but he only finds the wrongs in it why it is over developed, why there is no cells , there is no progress and all...even though i can see progress in my work... How should i deal with it...
What's the criteria to select postdoc candidates for interview stage? I have a phD from an Egyptian university and have publications as well ? Am i have a chance to join postdoc in American or European university ?
Yes. It happened to me and my wife during my PhD. Now I had finished my PhD at home (I had to re start) and I can’t find jobs here so I’m thinking going overseas again for a postdoctoral position … this is crazy I don’t know what to do.
Thank you so much. Much needed this today. You mentioned the publication, should it be necessarily 1st author paper??. It's 7 months after I joined, and I got a paper as 3rd author, is it okay???.
Everyone responded to your emails? For me it has been 95% radio silence, maybe 5% "no" responses, none interested. Computational biology, 12 decent publications, top 100 PhD, but nothing yet for 8 months.
Supreme excellence in attaining highest academia position (a professor) consists in breaking the enemy's university academia system without doing any actual scientific work.
I keep getting rejections by selected universities in which I saw unpleasant behaviors, every fridays. I was thinking if it could be a form of harassment as it demonstrates a pattern of behavior?
Funny. I do 2 usually but as an email not as a covletter. Still got nothing. A girl had a copycat of my cv just fewer qualifications and got the position as internal applicant and younger so less experience too. I didn't understand it. Some just hire younger for the sake of hiring. I have worked with great younger people or older so I don't get it and also bad of either. I don't think age determines how good you will be. Some are just looking to date 😂 in that case I'm glad I didn't get hired.
I am also facing the same problem. I am writing everything on the email directly instead of a separate cover letter, but still it is all the same - no response
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Thank you for your amazing content! A PI said to me something like: "I currently do not have funding for a Postdoc position but would be happy to support you finding funds." What should I do?
Hi! I have just landed on your channel! I loved your video where you talk about transitioning from academia to industry. I would love to know more about your experience both as a postdoc but also as a postdoc transitioning to industry. Can I ask you an email or something? Thank you so much for your time! And amazing helpful videos!
RU-vid just recommended me your channel and I watched most of the videos again. Really good content, you should really start posting againg, Dr. Darcy!
umm is there some overseeing in the PhD experiments? Im just in here alone with a lot of broken equipment and old supplies. Expected to come up with some papers of the experiments I designed in a few years, it sounds like the same as postdoc
Thank you so much for the information. I have the experience of 1 year in an industry and in academia after completing my PhD. How to summarize this much of experience in 10 min presentation. I am bit worried for my upcoming interaction with the prospective lab.
Thanks for sharing this! I hope everyone applying for a postdoc gets to take a look at this - really conveys the key points needed for a cover letter!!
