- Based on 685 Jobtrees users who were a Fellow in their career, on average, they have 2.51 years of experience and 2 jobs prior to this one. They spend 2.9 years on average in this job building experience and earn $55K per year before moving on.
- 3% of Jobtrees users moved to another job with this same title in their next career step. The most common career steps after Fellow are Data Scientist, Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant. Data Scientist, the most common next career step, is of similar seniority which is common to see in career paths as people will often move between jobs and roles at the same level as they build experience and explore other jobs.
- If you are looking for more ideas on potential career paths from this job, you should also consider Assistant Professor as they commonly lead to Fellow as well. Find more insights below about this specific career path based on our Jobtrees users' experience.
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- The most common career steps to get to Fellow are Data Scientist, Research Assistant and Consultant based on actual career paths reported to Jobtrees.
- Data Scientist, the most common step before Fellow, is of similar seniority which is common to see in career paths. People will often move between jobs and roles at the same level as they explore new types and gain experience for more senior roles.
- While Data Scientist is the most common, there is no specific role leading to Fellow that is an overwhelmingly common path.
- Another characteristic of the Fellow career path is that experience within the same job family as this role isn't common and as a result likely not necessary.
- This shows there are many potential paths to becoming a Fellow so focusing on translatable skills is likely more important than a specific role.
- While Data Scientist isn't from the same job family as Fellow, Research - Academic, it can help to have direct experience in this discipline shown by Research Assistant also being a common career path to Fellow.
- If you are looking for more potential career paths to Fellow, you should also consider Senior Data Scientist, Graduate Student and Phd Candidate as they commonly lead to Fellow as well.
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- The most common degrees or certifications earned by Jobtrees users on the path to become Fellow are Doctor Of Philosophy (ph.d.) In Physics, Bachelor Of Science (b.sc.) In Physics. There may be other specific certification requirements to land a job with this role, so please make sure to check local regulations as well.
- Career paths aren't linear with people often returning to a prior role which is what you see with Data Scientist being the most common role to and from Fellow. This is common when people move companies where the title is the same as a past one but the scope may be different but also is commonly driven by them choosing to return to a function they fit well with.
- Fellow is part of the Research - Academic job family which has a limited number of unique role types (19) within that discipline. Choosing to pursue a role within this family likely will mean that you will need to look outside of your discipline to find new roles and so should focus on related skills as part of that search.
- Other common titles that have similar job requirements and career paths as Fellow are Aaas Science & Technology Policy Fellow, Administrative Fellow, Associate Research Fellow, Data Engineering Fellow, Data Scientist Fellow, Design Fellow, Health Data Science Fellow, Hubble Fellow, Insight Data Science Fellow, Junior Fellow, Post-doctoral Fellow, Teaching Fellow.