<DIV><p>Despite your graduate education, brainpower, and technical prowess, your career in scientific research is far from assured. Permanent positions are scarce, science survival is rarely part of formal graduate training, and a good mentor is hard to find.</p> <p>In <I>A Ph.D. Is Not Enough!</I>,
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<DIV><p>Despite your graduate education, brainpower, and technical prowess, your career in scientific research is far from assured. Permanent positions are scarce, science survival is rarely part of formal graduate training, and a good mentor is hard to find.</p><p>In <I>A Ph.D. Is Not Enough!</I>,
<div><p>Despite your graduate education, brainpower, and technical prowess, your career in scientific research is far from assured. Permanent positions are scarce, science survival is rarely part of formal graduate training, and a good mentor is hard to find.</p><p>In <I>A Ph.D. Is Not Enough!</I>,
[Jane Rigby recommended this.](https://web.archive.org/web/20110220172742/http://users.obs.carnegiescience.edu/jrigby/gschool/index.html) A physicist authored it.
Do you see yourself in this picture? -- Important choices: a thesis adviser, a postdoctoral job -- Giving talks -- Writing papers: publishing without perishing -- From here to tenure: choosing a career path -- Job interviews -- Getting funded -- Establishing a research program
Offers sound advice on selecting a thesis or postdoctoral adviser, choosing among research jobs in academia, government laboratories, and industry, preparing for an employment interview, and defining a research program. DLC: Science - Vocational guidance