Career Advice

Nursing schools have growing numbers of openings for professors, but that doesn't mean the search process is easy, write Regina M. Cusson and Thomas Lawrence Long.

Eric V. Patridge considers the issues facing a gay scientist starting a career in academe.

David M. Ball sees the controversy over a rescinded job offer as reflecting larger tensions between research universities that train doctoral students and the other institutions that employ them.

Christine Kelly explains the delicate art of negotiation.

Are graduate students pushing themselves (or being pushed) to do too much research? Stephen Reese wonders.

Candidates need a different approach from what they may have learned in graduate school, writes Mark Connelly.

Patrick Iber is still waiting for the job everyone said he would find.