Association for Behavior Analysis International

When planning for a career after graduate school, you are faced with the difficult decision of what comes next. Some graduates choose to complete post-doctoral fellowships, but others choose to move directly into faculty or other positions. Some of the panelists for this professional development event completed post-doctoral fellowships, but others accepted faculty or other positions immediately following graduate school. Panelists will discuss their personal history of either being or not being a post doc, as well as, their current academic positions. Panelists will discuss some of the positive and negative impacts the decision to do or not do a post doc had on their current careers. Based on their own experiences, panelists will provide recommendations and advice about developing careers in behavior analysis. Hearing from panelists who have taken different paths to achieving their current positions should be helpful to students who are planning for the next step in their careers after graduate school.