Diversity of future careers

Your career isn’t typical

• As discussed in Survivorship bias.

• You probably need to prepare most of your research group for careers other than yours.

Not every junior researcher will continue in academia

• If someone doesn’t want to, or isn’t sure, they will feel alone.

• Feel unprepared for future jobs. Maybe no one they can turn to for help.

• Feel like a failure.

How you can help

• Diversity of collaborators and colleagues from different career paths.

• Actually discuss career paths.

• Don’t just hire people who have taken the same path to get where they are now. This provides internal role models.