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Support and community for graduate students and PhDs
My most recent post for University Affairs suggests ways students and PhDs can find or create structure, accountability, and support for themselves and their work. It begins: I work for and largely by myself, and I love it. My graduate school experience was similar in important ways: I worked at home without much externally-imposed structure.…
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Congratulations to me!
Last night I won the gold award for best blog or column in the b2b/academic category at the Canadian Online Publishing Awards. I won this last year, too, so that “read her award-winning blog…” bit is staying in my bio 🙂
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What is a PhD, anyway?
My latest post for University Affairs is a reflection piece on the many lived definitions of what PhD is and means and individuals. Part of me is happy to say a PhD is meant to be flexible, and that much is left to each individual student — in collaboration with advisors, in conversation with other…
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The next (scary!) step for me: building a formal community
How is it that I am more than three years into this job and I still feel like a n00b? Well, I know why – there are so many good, reasonable reasons. But one of the answers is that my role is adaptable, because I am self-employed and it is entirely up to me to…
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Transition Q & A: Katie Vahey-Gaebler
Katie Vahey-Gaebler earned her PhD in higher education & student affairs leadership from the University of Northern Colorado. She’s currently an academic adviser at the University of Colorado Boulder, and is an independent consultant. Finishing PhD work and moving on to a next life stage is a huge transition and no one needs to figure…
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10 Starter Tips on Using Twitter for Business and Pleasure
I’m a big fan of Twitter–it’s expanded both my personal and professional networks tremendously. I recently published on Medium.com some thoughts about what I’ve learned using it for my business. Twitter is one of the primary ways that I’ve grown my business over the past 3+ years. These days, most of my potential clients — for both 1-on-1 coaching and…
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Get help with your non-academic job search
Getting to work collaboratively with others has been a pleasant surprise for my in my coaching career. I’m excited to be opening up this new opportunity for career seekers! Maren, Heidi and I are launching the PhD Career Exploration and Job Search Course. It starts in early September, and enrollment is now open, and limited to 10…
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Why it’s good to hit the summer reset button
I recently started working again after taking a month off. It was great to relax, and it gave me a new perspective of some of my working habits that need to change. Among the reasons why I wanted to take a break this summer was that my work-life balance was out of whack. I work…
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Transition Q & A: Adam Sanford
Adam Sanford earned his PhD in sociology from the University of California, Riverside in 2012 and now works as an academic coach, writer, and adjunct instructor. “One of the scariest things for me, when I realized that the tenure-track job market had dried up, was trying to figure out how my skill set could ever…
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#VitaeWednesday: Maren & Jen’s 7 Tips for Going Beyond the Professoriate
Here’s the recording of the webinar I did with Maren Wood last week! Maren shared her research on academic hiring and career outcomes for PhDs, and then we gave our 7 tips for successfully transitioning to work beyond the professoriate. Watch it here! And download your free handout here.