tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post8974683703083907075..comments2024-03-27T21:23:40.339-04:00Comments on Chemjobber: How to transition from industry to academia for an inorganic chemist? Chemjobberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15932113680515602275noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-17432764266700114562016-08-24T17:17:09.633-04:002016-08-24T17:17:09.633-04:00Adam Coleson at Boise State University seems to ha...Adam Coleson at Boise State University seems to have done the same thing. Just typing some search parameters into google, there seem to be a few folks with very similar backgrounds. Maybe the reader should start building the network now? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-5446778982875902032016-08-24T12:41:05.856-04:002016-08-24T12:41:05.856-04:00Thanks for replying, everyone. I realize this is g...Thanks for replying, everyone. I realize this is going to be uphill, but I do appreciate the input.<br /><br />Best<br /><br />TGTGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-90029412477234480912016-08-24T10:10:12.236-04:002016-08-24T10:10:12.236-04:00Babu at Ohio State went this route as well. Knowi...Babu at Ohio State went this route as well. Knowing him personally, he did not have an issue in transitioning but maybe he is just an exceptional instance and was also hired some 20 years ago...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-74289126706591076642016-08-23T14:49:29.241-04:002016-08-23T14:49:29.241-04:00like KT said, this is an even more difficult under...like KT said, this is an even more difficult undertaking than finding an industry job, & we all know what that is like.<br /><br />agreed that TG would likely have a better shot at a smaller college with a program specifically focused on producing graduates for industry. they will likely value his industry experience much more highly. from there, he could continue to build the academic component of his CV & improve his network, contacts, etc that he mentioned was weak.grace @ the smokin' chemisthttp://www.smokinchemist.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-72063538223880318122016-08-23T13:36:34.092-04:002016-08-23T13:36:34.092-04:00Eastern Michigan has a guy who is pretty near reti...Eastern Michigan has a guy who is pretty near retirement at the Coatings Research Institute. Might be worth checking out. Especially if "TG" can secure themselves some start-up funding. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13955696746160492718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-72322115376898261832016-08-23T12:36:22.016-04:002016-08-23T12:36:22.016-04:00I think TG's best bet would be an industrially...I think TG's best bet would be an industrially-oriented program, such as the coatings institutes at Missouri-Rolla, Eastern Michigan, and North Dakota State.<br /><br />My own program was in top 5-10 or so, and I only know a handful of people who ended up in professor jobs at big, PhD-granting schools. What TG is trying to do is a hell of a lot harder than trying to find an industry job.KTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-30316322032464750562016-08-23T11:46:53.019-04:002016-08-23T11:46:53.019-04:00I teach at a public PUI, and have served on severa...I teach at a public PUI, and have served on several hiring committees. Not having teaching experience would be a major smudge on the CV of anyone applying to my department. To my knowledge, my department has only hired one tenure-track faculty member without teaching experience at the time of appointment, and that was a search in a very narrow specialty in which there were few applicants. The good news is that teaching experience is fairly easy to get, if you don't mind working a precarious schedule with low pay for a couple of years. If TG is serious about teaching, s/he should keep the industry job for now and apply for lecturer pool/part-time adjunct positions at nearby universities and community colleges. I did this while working as a full-time postdoc, and it was a very hectic couple of years but landed me a TT position despite a relatively sparse publication record.<br /><br />If TG prefers research universities, I'll defer comment since I don't know so much what they want.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-87621767623299316912016-08-23T10:29:22.496-04:002016-08-23T10:29:22.496-04:00Jerome Robinson (now at Brown) did exactly this th...Jerome Robinson (now at Brown) did exactly this thing:<br /><br />https://www.brown.edu/academics/chemistry/news/2016-03/department-chemistry-welcomes-dr-jerome-robinson-faculty<br /><br />perhaps he could offer some perspectiveDeja Vanadiumnoreply@blogger.com