Resumen
For a number of years, the Computer Research Association's Taulbee Survey has done an excellent job surveying department chairs to determine faculty characteristics and the employment destinations of doctorates where known. What has been missing to date is data on recent graduates for whom faculty had no knowledge. Moreover, more detailed information was needed from the recent doctoral graduates themselves. These and other questions were addressed in a recent pilot study funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation with a grant to the Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology. Of the 123 respondents, who answered the question on where they were employed, 103 were working in the U.S., 11 in Canada, and 9 outside the U.S./Canada. Some 96% of recent doctorates reported that they were working during the week of October 14, 1996. Of the 4% who were not working, two were not seeking employment, so three respondents were actively looking for employment. The finding of low unemployment among doctorates is consistent with national data on the sciences and the engineering (S&E) that finds of all doctorates in S&E, about 1.5%, were unemployed in 1995.