DIYbio—Alternative Career Path for Biologists?

Leaving the lab: career development for developmental biologists.

Let's face it: not all PhD students and postdocs will become lab heads. Every few years, the National Science Foundation surveys doctorate recipients in the USA about their career progression, and their latest published data (collected in 2006) show that only about one quarter of biomedical science PhDs held tenured or tenure-track positions (see Box 1). If graduate and postdoctoral training ar...

Modeling Career Path Trajectories

Understanding the structure and dynamics of the job market is important both from the local perspective of individual job hunters and from the global perspective of economists and policy makers. In this paper, we explore such questions by analyzing the text of a corpus of resumes and their job transitions. We first demonstrate the use of a statistical topic model to discover the latent skills t...

Clearing a Career Path for Software Testers

0 7 4 0 7 4 5 9 / 0 0 / $ 1 0 . 0 0 © 2 0 0 0 I E E E However, this is clearly not the case. Many large-scale systems consist of millions of lines of source code. When a testing group determines that such a system is ready for release, it is essentially certifying that the software will behave with an acceptable level of dependability. The steps leading to this release decision must be based on...

Fortune Teller: Predicting Your Career Path

People go to fortune tellers in hopes of learning things about their future. A future career path is one of the topics most frequently discussed. But rather than rely on “black arts” to make predictions, in this work we scientifically and systematically study the feasibility of career path prediction from social network data. In particular, we seamlessly fuse information from multiple social ne...

Choosing the right pediatric career path.