The paper aims
1. to draw attention to the situation in the Czech Republic, where universities “produce” tens of PhD graduates every year and are little interested in their future;
2. to clarify the term “postdoc” and introduce research studies that deal with this group of university graduates;
3. to present some information about PhD graduate in the filed of educational sciences in the Czech Republic;
4. to discuss the Czech context that influences the employment of postdocs;
5. to summarize findings from abroad about systematic wok with postdocs.