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3 Questions for Job Seekers with a PhD
Job seeking is an easy time to lose touch with yourself and your priorities, especially if you’re just coming off a PhD degree. In a recent essay published on Medium.com, I discuss three questions job seekers can ask themselves to keep a clear, focused vision of the type of job they want. Your own priorities, values,…
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Beyond the Professoriate – the online career conference for PhDs!
Learn about PhD jobs . . . and how to get them! The 3rd Annual Beyond the Professoriate is a career conference for PhDs. It is hosted entirely online, and welcomes participants from around the globe on two days, Saturday, 7 May, and Saturday, 14 May. New this year is a 21-day replay so attendees…
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Transition Q&A: Nathaniel Bean
I recently had the chance to talk with Nathaniel Bean, who is finishing his DMA and has two very different but equally interesting jobs, one as education librarian & program assistant at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Wu Family Academy of Learning & Engagement, and the other as a Fellow at Michigan State University’s Office of PhD Career Services.…
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Transition Q&A: Jennifer De Mello
After completing her PhD in Chemistry, Jennifer De Mello investigated a variety of career paths. Currently, she holds an intellectually and creatively enriching position as a senior business analyst with Manheim Wholesale Auto Auctions. Daily, I am embedded with the technology team (developers, testers) and work to define or review small units of functionality as they are…
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Organizing an Academic Conference? Don’t Forget Twitter
Twitter adds a new dimension to the community and ideas academic conferences generate: If you’ve encouraged tweeting and spread the word about your hashtag, you can expect attendees will be using it. In-person discussions may make their way online, and take on lives of their own. For more insight on incorporating twitter into your next…
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Taking risks is key to a successful career change
In my recent University Affairs post, I encourage people to take risks in their career transition, but not huge ones, and not all at once. Small, incremental risks–an informational interview, reframing a resume–are vital in paving the path to your new career. Read more here.
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Stalled career search? Don’t give up
Sometimes, the best thing you can do for your career search is to simply not give up. Instead, keep moving forward–even if you don’t know where you’re heading or what your options are. Keep making new connections, reaching out to people, volunteering, or whatever it is you are doing to stay in the game. This…
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It’s OK to quit your PhD
My latest post for University Affairs says it’s OK to “quit” — and I put that in parentheses for a good reason. The narrative surrounding not completing a PhD is a negative one: quitting, leaving, failing. But for a great many people, the reality is that they’re moving on because it’s right for them. It’s…
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My speaking schedule so far, winter-spring 2016
See my latest post for University Affairs for some reflections on my AHA experience — I co-hosted the Career Fair in Atlanta earlier this month — and info about upcoming events! For more details and updates, check my Events page. Here are the postcards I had printed to bring with me. They were great to…
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Don’t give in to your inner critic
Are you doing your work, or are you making excuses? I ask lovingly, of course 🙂 From my latest for University Affairs: [D]oing the work is terrifying because it means putting yourself first – your ideas, your ambitions, your goals. When you do that, you risk ultimate failure. That’s the inner critic talking, though. Our egos,…