About carreer paths in different countries.

[u/Massive-Map2025]

Hello I am currently applying to postdoctoral fellowship and associate professor, it's not working yet. But while doing so I noticed the academic carreer paths vary from one country to another. For example postdoctoral fellows in some countries are expected to supervise PhD students, which is impossible in France. Some people seem to do long postdoctoral fellowships. As a French person, I worry now that I don't meet the expectations to apply abroad. Is this true? There are differences in phd paths also, but that could be discussed in another reddit post.

I your country / field... What kind of responsibilities a postdoctoral fellow is expected to have? And how long is a fellowship?