I have to say "Eastern European" is a quite poor and unhelpful generalization nowadays. It is ethnically and linguistically diverse: Slavic, Baltic, Finno-Ugric, Romance (Romania) as well as Albanian and Hellenic. It is religiously diverse: Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Muslim and even the bastions of irreligion/atheism (Czechia and Estonia). There are significant cultural differences, especially comparing the more…
Yeah, and 'Marta Somethingova' is... well, I'll just call it under-informed rather than anything else.
You just described how to get brain drain, by limiting the development of your students you will for ever be stuck with no outside influences. Students will often come home even if they get education abroad.
This ONLY happens in countries with high salary ceilings: China, India, etc, or countries with high QoL despite low salaries: Southern Europe, Czechia.
Is it really that bad? I often see people who go back after the fourth postdoc/job, but I guess that is such a small group of people that it's more noticeable.
This ONLY happens in countries with high salary ceilings: China, India, etc, or countries with high QoL despite low salaries: Southern Europe, Czechia.
Is it really that bad? I often see people who go back after the fourth postdoc/job, but I guess that is such a small group of people that it's more noticeable.
That's probably 0.0001% of people. And Romania has a super low amount of researchers from the get go, lower than EU average for sure.
I appreciate the author's intention to help. But I can't but be annoyed by his stance that "I am at Cambridge", therefore the way I prefer things to be formulated is the correct, universally accepted way. What's wrong with honest, no-nonsense recommendation letters? Why is flattering and positive language a requirement? I am sure the author knows how to differentiate "you are doing brilliant work" coming from his mot…
I am an Eastern European that worked a lot for US companies (or generally the West). While it sounds like a no-nonsene attitude should work, I've found that being more salesy and positive works wonders when interacting with people from the US (I know Cambridge isn't the US, but it's likely similar in this aspect). This "I am not impressed by anything" attitude, results in you either omitting achievements that other candidates have listed and/or underselling the ones you would think of putting down. This makes you look worse than the benchmark. And the benchmark in the USA will always be skewed towards it's cultural lense.