A Ph.D. is no guarantee of an academic career

• Ph.D.-trained scientists face an incredibly tight academic job market.

• There is a labor shortage in the information industries.

• Scientific training requires familiarity with information technologies, particularly for those scientific projects that are computational in nature.

• Open Source scientific code lets potential employers in the information industries view the programming skills of non-traditional, but highly skilled potential employees.

• Open Source scientific software helps graduate students and post-docs find good jobs!