Is it for an academic post, a job, a volunteer position, a background check, or a personal reference?
While a postdoc is essential for a shot at an academic post, it's not nearly as critical for jobs in industry.
Because they could provide the ammunition I need to convince the powers-that-be that I'm onto the 'next big thing'--my passport to a fellowship or an academic post.
As well as holding an academic post as a Professor of Criminology at Durham University, Measham is a co-founder of The Loop, a community interest group that has been piloting a number of drug testing schemes in nightclubs and music festivals around the country.
He will take up an academic post at a top Chinese university.
Mr Fahmy recently accepted an academic post at a university in Canada, but cannot yet take it up.
Alumni were once seen, first and foremost, in terms of their potential as benefactors, rewarding institutions with endowments in return for some kind of personal gratification or institutional recognition, whether the naming of a building, funding of an academic post and so forth.
The popular mayor of this increasingly glittering city resigned suddenly today to take up an academic post in Beijing, a seeming demotion that stunned Shanghai residents and foreign business executives.
Kelly foresees that presenting "impact stories" will become a new potential career for post-doctorates, while Crawford suggests that the ability to demonstrate the impact of work could join teaching, research and administration as a fourth essential element of an academic post.
Even if you're also still seeking an academic post, when interviewing for an industry job, that's the job you want.
