Advantages of Research Assistantships

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Advantages of Research Assistantships

  • They give you research experience: In a research assistantship, your job is to design experiments, conduct experiments, analyze data and write up the results. These are all essential skills for new scientists. Having these skills will help you when you complete your Master's Thesis and Doctoral Dissertation.
  • Lots of scholarly activities for your Academic Vita: Working as a research assistant means contributing to the successful completion of conference talks and posters, publications and grants. When you contribute to these types of projects, you may get authorship and / or recognition. Scholarly activities look great on an Academic Vita. They can help you get a job in academia in the future.
  • May get to know your major professor better and this can enhance your letter of recommendation: A research assistant usually works closely with their professor, post docs and upper level graduate students. When you work closely with these people, you can get to know them better. Knowing these people can help you get better letters of recommendation - letters that really demonstrate that you have worked closely with other academics. Great letters of recommendation can get you far.

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