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Hello, everyone! With graduation deadlines looming, the iJOBS blog has decided to run a survey to see what everyone (whether graduating this May or not) is planning to do after their time at Rutgers comes to a close. We would greatly appreciate it if you took the time to fill out this very brief (5 questions, and one of them isn't mandatory) survey HERE. We are aiming for 75 responses! Your answers will be anonymous. We will report on the results within 2-3 weeks, depending on how quickly the responses roll in.

Do all first year graduate students dream of becoming a principal investigator of their own lab after getting their PhD? Or do some enter graduate school knowing that they will not be working in academia?

  When I entered graduate school, I had only one straight career path in front of me: get my degree, apply for a post-doc position, then a faculty position, and get on my way to becoming tenured. Honestly, I thought that was what everyone did after getting their PhD.

By: Maria Qadri “…one person’s rose-tinted view of their own idiosyncratic story does not constitute “advice,” especially not in an endeavor where we value reproducibility.” This year’s American Society for Cell Biology Early Career Life Scientist, Vladamir Denic, wrote a brief and honest essay about his journey from average high school student to a successful Principal Investigator at a name-brand university.

In September, fellow blogger Bob O’Hagan reviewed an opinion piece that was published on nextscientist.com entitled “How To Know If You Should Leave Academia … Before Wasting Years In Postdocs”.  The article, written by Dr.

In addition to weighing career options after graduation and searching for potential job matches, F-1 international students also have to make another important decision: either go back to their home country, or stay and work here in the US. F-1 international student visas expire after completing your studies and earning your degree, so if international students do decide to stay and work in the US, the deadline of their legal stay puts additional pressure in making career decisions.