HOW WELL HAVE STUDENTS AND POST-DOCS THOUGHT ABOUT THEIR CAREER PATHS?
Advisors are more likely to be consulted about career advice by post-docs than by graduate students. Masters students are the least likely to consult their advisors on their career plans.
Knowledge of career outcomes of previous group members increases from masters students to post-docs.
Graduate students are less likely to take the initiative to write research papers on their own than are post-docs. Graduate students believe that the responsibility of communicating their work to the scientific community rests with their advisors and are less likely to participate in the writing of their research papers and in the subsequent review process.
Post-docs are more likely to have delivered undergraduate lectures than graduate students.
The likelihood of writing a thesis proposal as part of graduate education is lowest among masters students, increases dramatically among Ph.D. students, then diminishes again among post-docs.
Knowledge of an advisor's research funds increases steadily from masters students to post-docs. Concomitant with this trend is an increase in the likelihood that students have read an NSERC proposal; however, this trend levels off among Ph.D. students and post-docs.
