Lauren Easterling offers advice for successful job searches after obtaining your doctorate or completing a postdoc in midlife.
Derek Attig explains how to break down and mine your work experiences to obtain far better insights about your needs, values and possible futures.
In the first of a two-part essay, Christine Kelly reviews the stereotypes and key questions a Ph.D. will face, and how to overcome them.
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We need to emphasize or reconceptualize such assistantships as a source of skills that are transferable within and beyond academe, write Morris Grubbs and Ashley Sorrell.
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
“At the first scholarly conference I ever attended, the going rate for speaking was $2,000. That wasn’t my fee. It was how much it cost me — as a then-graduate student — to give a …
26 JAN 2022 BY ADAM RUBEN
When I was in grad school, we had one professor in our department known as The Guy From Industry. Unlike his colleagues, who had presumably hatched from leathery postdoctoral eggs directly into the tenured …
Sonali Majumdar emphasizes the power of self-knowledge for Ph.D. students and programs in helping prepare for future employment and societal needs.
Sonali Majumdar highlights why grad students and postdocs should identify emerging employment trends, develop durable skills and ultimately adapt a growth mind-set for professional success.
Nana Lee offers guidance on how to find inspiration from activities outside your main research area and make them count.
Robert Pearson explores the benefits for grad students of participating in one and offers strategies for addressing any barriers that can arise in institutions without a history of supporting internships.
