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After the Offer, Before the Deal: Negotiating A First Academic Job
- By Chris M. Golde, Academe , January-February 1999. " What is a fair salary? Can I ask for moving expenses? When can faculty members negotiate reductions in their teaching loads? These are the kinds of questions graduate faculty often hear from their students who have just been offered academic jobs. Besides training young scholars as teachers and researchers, we also mentor them in their search for jobs. As a result, we're expected to know the answers to such questions. In this article, I offer suggestions to the just-appointed faculty member who seeks to be a savvy participant in negotiating the terms of a first job. "
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Life Sciences Research Foundation
- "LSRF awards fellowships across the spectrum of the life sciences: biochemistry; cell, developmental, molecular, plant, structural, organismic population and evolutionary biology; endocrinology; immunology; microbiology; neurobiology; physiology; virology.... Three-year fellowships will be awarded on a competitive basis to graduates of medical and graduate schools in the biological sciences holding M.D., Ph.D., D.V.M. or D.D.S. degrees. Awards will be based solely on the quality of the individual applicant's previous accomplishments, and on the merit of the proposal for postdoctoral research."
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Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Cancer Immunology or General Immunology training
- "[S]upports qualified young scientists at leading universities and research centers around the world who wish to receive training in cancer immunology or general immunology"
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Negotiating Offers for Faculty Positions
- A guide from the UNC Office of Postdoctoral Affairs.
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Negotiating Your First Academic Job Offer
- by Margaret L. Newhouse. " Many first-time academic job candidates assume that, once they receive a job offer, their arduous search is over. In fact, no matter how delighted you are with an offer, it is wise to view it as part of the last stage of the process -- the negotiation stage -- even if you ultimately decide not to negotiate anything. This pamphlet offers some general principles and advice on negotiating academic job offers, particularly initial ones. "
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NIH Postdoctoral Index of Openings
- Current postdoctoral opportunities at the NIH
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Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Biological Sciences
- A big list of sources of fellowships assembled by UC Berkeley.
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Negotiating: Please Sir, Can I Have Some More?
- ScienceCareers.org "Whether you're a fresh Ph.D. searching for a lab in which to do a postdoc, or you're trying to land a junior faculty position and create your own lab, negotiations are crucial in developing your scientific career. Reaching satisfying compromises with the head of a lab or the department chair requires first-rate communication and social skills. Professional bargaining, for example, could win you promises of more start-up funds, additional space, or extra equipment. At the postdoctoral level, good negotiating may mean you wind up taking away part (or all!) of your project when it's time to leave. But negotiating doesn't start and end at interviews: Interacting with an employer, department chair, or lab director takes place throughout your research career."
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The Noel Smith-Wenkle Salary Negotiation Method
- "Salary negotiation is something at which hiring managers are usually a lot more proficient than the people they hire. In the interest of leveling the playing field, here is a method for salary negotiation that has worked for me and many others."
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Life Sciences Postdocs
- Compiled by the UCSF Biochemistry & Biophysics Department. One of the most comprehensive listings of postdoctoral fellowships online.
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Post-Docs.com
- This website provides current job listings of post-docs, faculty jobs and other full-time jobs.
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Nine Key Negotiating Points
- "Laurie Weingart, a negotiations expert and behavioral analyst, provides advice on nine issues that should be addressed when negotiating a junior faculty position."
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NIH Pathway to Independence Award
- "This initiative will develop and implement a new Pathway to Independence Award Program (PI) designed to facilitate receiving an R01 award earlier in an investigators research career. The primary, long-term goal of the PI Award Program is to increase and maintain a strong cohort of new and talented, NIH-supported independent investigators."
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Academic Scientists at Work: Negotiating a Faculty Position
- ScienceCareers.org "Negotiating a job is similar to playing a hand of poker: the stronger your hand - your credentials - the more you can demand. The trick is to know what aspects of the position are negotiable and what the limits are; otherwise, you may find that the offer has folded. This article will discuss the issues at stake in academic science research positions and offer some suggestions on how you could approach your own negotiations so that you get the job you want and the start-up package you need."
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FindAPostDoc.com
- FindAPost-Doc.com is a new site exclusively dedicated to advertising Post-Doctoral positions.
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The Real Science Crisis: Bleak Prospects for Young Researchers
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in HomeChronicle of Higher Education , September 2007. "[F]or many of today's graduate students, the future could not look much bleaker. They see long periods of training, a shortage of academic jobs, and intense competition for research grants looming ahead of them. 'They get a sense that this is a really frustrating career path,' says Thomas R. Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health. So although the operating assumption among many academic leaders is that the nation needs more scientists, some of brightest students in the country are demoralized and bypassing scientific careers."
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Environmental Fellows at Harvard University
- The Harvard University Center for the Environment will award eight two-year post-doc research fellowships to start Sept. 2006 to oustanding scholars in any field related to the environment. Each Environmental Fellow will work with a host faculty member in his or her department. The fellowship will provide a generous salary and benefits. Applications are due Jan. 15, 2006; details are posted at environment.harvard.edu.
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Postdoctoral Fellowships in Complex Systems Studies at the Santa Fe Institute
- " The Institute's multidisciplinary research program is devoted to the study of complex systems, especially complex adaptive systems. Topics currently under study include nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation; measures of complexity; learning algorithms; agent-based modeling and simulation tools; evolutionary biology; models of the immune system, cellular regulation, and other biological systems; models of economic, political and social interactions, and others. Postdoctoral Fellows work either on existing research projects or on projects of their own choosing. "
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International Postdoctoral Opportunities Resource
- A reference point for parents, students, and guidance counselors that allow them to browse and search for college scholarships: bachelor, master degree, doctoral, PhD, and postdoctoral
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National Research Council (NRC) Research Associateship Program
- "For outstanding investigators of any nationality who have held their doctoral degree for less than five years."
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Women and Minorities Negotiating Salaries
- "The objective of this article is to heighten awareness for women and minorities about the effect of starting salary on career earnings and the materials available for assessing your potential employer. The bottom line is that a low starting salary will haunt you throughout your academic career."
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ScholarshipNet.info: Scholarships and Postdocs Resources for International Students
- ScholarshipNet.info - International Scholarships Window. We deliver scholarships, postodcs and study abroad related information from around the world to international students.
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National Institute on Aging, Employment Opportunities
- Postdoctoral opportunities at the National Institute on Aging
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Burroughs Wellcome Fund
- " The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is an independent private foundation established to advance the medical sciences by supporting research and other scientific and educational activities. Its emphasis is on the career development of outstanding scientists and on advancing areas in the basic medical sciences that are underfunded or that have a shortage of qualified researchers. " The fund has a number of fellowships for postdoctoral work and for early career scientists.
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Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship (VF)
- "For foreign national doctoral-level scientists within five years of obtaining their doctoral degree"
