Timeline for How to respond to "Why didn't you do a postdoc after your PhD?"
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| Oct 11, 2019 at 23:21 | vote | accept | InSpaceICanScreamAsLoudAsIWant | ||
| Oct 8, 2019 at 3:37 | comment | added | InSpaceICanScreamAsLoudAsIWant | FWIW, this was for my first job out of grad school. The tactic of answering positively (in this case, about what I did) to a negatively-worded question sounds like a very strong general tactic in interviewing. | |
| Oct 7, 2019 at 15:35 | comment | added | Will | @ivan_pozdeev focusing on what OP did instead of a postdoc isn't evading the question; it's almost certainly crucial to answering the question properly. Leaving academia doesn't in and of itself relieve you of negatives like low pay or low security. You have to have an alternative that motivates you to move. There might be a few people who after a PhD would literally rather be unemployed for the rest of their life than do a postdoc, but they would have very different working motivations to most people who make the move out of academia after their PhD | |
| Oct 7, 2019 at 7:16 | history | edited | berry120 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 7, 2019 at 5:44 | comment | added | Mars | What if it' your first job? The obvious follow up question will be "Okay, so what are your career interests and how do they differ from a postdoc?" The past is much easier to obfuscate than the present | |
| Oct 7, 2019 at 3:37 | comment | added | ivan_pozdeev | The suggested formulation sounds like evading the question to me: the formulations are very vague and don't really tell anything. | |
| Oct 6, 2019 at 8:24 | history | answered | berry120 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |