Ensuring a successful postdoctoral appointment and using the experience to launch a solid career require careful preparation. Scientists who responded to this year's postdoctoral survey, sponsored by Science Careers, outline strategies based on their personal histories. Ensuring a successful postdoctoral appointment and using it as a springboard to an equally effective scientific career demand careful preparation. That's the main lesson provided by respondents to the third annual survey of postdocs sponsored by Science Careers. The idea that a Ph.D. scientist can drift into a postdoctoral appointment because one is available and then rely on reputation and natural talent to obtain the first job in academe, government, or industry simply doesn't apply to the 21 st century workplace.
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