{"id":25534,"date":"2024-03-21T20:13:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T00:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=25534"},"modified":"2024-03-25T08:17:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T12:17:38","slug":"tips-for-getting-post-bac-research-positions-in-psychology-neuroscience-besides-the-obvious-work-your-connections-and-checking-job-boards-feel-like-i-am-swinging-and-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2024\/03\/21\/tips-for-getting-post-bac-research-positions-in-psychology-neuroscience-besides-the-obvious-work-your-connections-and-checking-job-boards-feel-like-i-am-swinging-and-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for getting post-bac research positions in psychology\/neuroscience (besides the obvious work your connections and checking job boards)? Feel like I am swinging and missing!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AW032124-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AW032124-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AW032124-2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AW032124-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AW032124-2-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I recommend speaking to as many people in that area as you can: IOW, professors of psychology and neuroscience at BC and beyond, to ask what they did. Don&#8217;t be afraid of cold-calling (or emailing), but be sure to personalize them in some way: speak about their specializations &amp; your interest in them. It&#8217;s probably somewhat akin to sending early-career fiction manuscripts for publication; one writer said &#8220;you&#8217;ve sent almost enough when you can wallpaper a room with rejections.&#8221; I&#8217;d also talk to the career center: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/BC-career\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bit.ly\/BC-career<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recommend speaking to as many people in that area as you can: IOW, professors of psychology and neuroscience at BC and beyond, to ask what they did. Don&#8217;t be afraid of cold-calling (or emailing), but be sure to personalize them in some way: speak about their specializations &amp; your interest in them. It&#8217;s probably &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2024\/03\/21\/tips-for-getting-post-bac-research-positions-in-psychology-neuroscience-besides-the-obvious-work-your-connections-and-checking-job-boards-feel-like-i-am-swinging-and-missing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tips for getting post-bac research positions in psychology\/neuroscience (besides the obvious work your connections and checking job boards)? Feel like I am swinging and missing!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25547,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25534\/revisions\/25547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}