Keith Herrmann, convenor of the Careers Sector Stakeholders Alliance, said he hoped the report would help address "the growing concern that the lack of funding for schools and inadequate guidance from the coalition government risks inconsistent careers provision across England, with school students suffering from a post-code lottery".
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Professors are apt to advise students for academia, as most supervisors have limited exposure to opportunities in other career sectors, such as biotech, law, policy, government, or communication. .
Mobility is creating one of the fastest growing technology career sectors in the U.S. and the world.
These results also reflect that alumni, who represented several different career sectors, were broadly prepared to take advantage of numerous career opportunities postfellowship.
As a result, a total of 54 alumni were sampled, with the goal of interviewing 27 alumni equally distributed across the three career sectors.
They were sampled from three broad career sectors based on their current place of employment government (primarily NIH), academic institutions, and private sector/other, which included for-profit companies, nonprofit organizations, medical practices, and cancer centers.
A subset of alumni from three major career sectors (academia, government, and private/nonprofit/other) were interviewed, and they represented different scientific disciplines and length of time since completing postdoctoral training.
In-depth interviews with a subset of the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program CPFPP) alumni (n = 27), representing more than 25 years of the program's history and multiple career sectors, were conducted to assess alumni reflections on the training environment and career preparation during their time in the CPFP.
One action she took to enhance her search, she said, was to add mirrors to her home's "career" sector.
