来源：《自然》
原文刊登日期：2023年4月17日
In 2021, Branka Milivojevic prepared to leave academia for the second time. She wanted greater flexibility so that she could be available for her children, and was tired of the instability of grant-based contracts. Five years previously, she had joined a neuromarketing start-up in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, as a principal scientist to automate and standardize the analysis and visualization of neuroimaging data. But within a year, she had returned to a university research position, enticed by exciting projects. For her second move to industry, she drafted a list of what she wanted to negotiate for.
2021，布兰卡·米利沃杰维奇准备第二次离开学术界。她想要更大的灵活性，这样她就可以有时间照顾孩子，并且厌倦了基于拨款的合同的不稳定性。五年前，她加入了荷兰鹿特丹的一家神经营销初创公司，担任首席科学家，负责神经成像数据分析和可视化的自动化和标准化。但不到一年，她就被令人兴奋的项目所吸引，回到了大学的研究岗位。在她第二次进入工业界时，她起草了一份清单，列出了她想要谈判的条件。
“I had a list of the top ten things I wanted for my job,” says the former cognitive neuroscientist, who is now based in Utrecht in the Netherlands. “Negotiating a higher salary is great, but salary is not the only thing that is important,” says Milivojevic, now a data scientist at the Dutch railway operator Nederlandse Spoorwegen. Her list formed the basis of her negotiations with potential industry employers — and reminded her what she was prepared to fight for. This included flexible working hours and a location close to home, or to have her commuting time included as part of her working hours.
这位现居荷兰乌得勒支的前认知神经科学家说：“我列出了我工作中最想要的十件事。”。米利沃杰维奇现在是荷兰铁路的数据科学家，她说：“谈判加薪很好，但工资并不是唯一重要的事情。”她的这份清单是她与潜在行业雇主谈判的基础，并提醒她准备为之奋斗。包括灵活的工作时间和离家近的工作地点，或者将通勤时间作为工作时间的一部分。
Increasingly, academics are finding themselves negotiating industry salaries. In 2021, for example, only one-third of newly graduated mathematics and statistics PhD students in the United States entered academic jobs, excluding postdoctoral positions, compared with almost 60% in 2001, according to the US National Science Foundation’s Survey of Earned Doctorates. In the social sciences, that proportion plummeted from 66% to 48%.
越来越多的学者发现，他们自己正在就行业薪资进行谈判。例如，根据美国国家科学基金会对博士学位获得者的调查，在2021年，不包括博士后职位，美国只有三分之一的新毕业的数学和统计学博士生进入学术工作岗位，而2001年这一比例接近60%。在社会科学领域，这一比例从66%骤降至48%。
For many academic researchers, the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a re-evaluation of their work life and the realization that they were discontent with their workload, career progression and work environment. According to Nature’s 2021 salary and job satisfaction survey, less than half of respondents from around the world were satisfied with their job prospects. Industry respondents (64%) were much more likely than those in academia (42%) to report feeling positively about their careers. That’s a marked shift from the 2016 survey, in which satisfaction levels across the two sectors were neck and neck (63% and 65%, respectively).
对于许多学术研究人员来说，新冠肺炎大流行引发了他们对工作生活的重新评估，并意识到他们对工作量、职业发展和工作环境的不满。根据《自然》杂志2021年的工资和工作满意度调查，全球不到一半的受访者对自己的工作前景感到满意。业界受访者(64%)比学术界受访者(42%)更有可能对自己的职业生涯感到乐观。与2016年的调查相比，这是一个显著的转变，在2016年的调查中，这两个界别的满意度不相上下(分别为63%和65%)。
A 2022 report from the UK University and College Union found that more than half of its members were considering a career change. It’s unclear how many of these researchers will actually jump ship, but laboratory leaders are already struggling to fill early-career posts. For researchers wanting to move into industry positions for the first time, those who have already done so offer their insights and advice on what homework to do before negotiating, why to negotiate salary and which other aspects of the job are on the table.
英国大学和学院联盟2022年的一份报告发现，其超过一半的成员正在考虑换工作。目前还不清楚这些研究人员中有多少人会跳槽，但实验室的领导们已经在努力招人填补初级职业岗位的空缺。对于那些第一次想进入工业界职位的研究人员，那些已经进入工业界的人会提供他们的见解和建议，比如在谈判前要做哪些准备工作，为什么要谈判薪水，以及工作的哪些其他方面可以讨论。
Data scientist Tim Gravelle has moved between industry and academia for the past 20 years. “You need to get a sense of what it is that you value,” says Gravelle, who joined business consultancy firm Bain & Company in Toronto, Canada, as its insights data science director in November 2022. It is also important to know what skills and traits companies value.
数据科学家格拉维尔在过去的20年里一直在工业界和学术界之间游走。格拉维尔于2022年11月加入加拿大多伦多的商业咨询公司贝恩，担任洞察数据科学总监。他说：“你需要知道自己看重的是什么。”了解公司看重哪些技能和特质也很重要。