Carpe Careers

Three distinct strengths that contribute to the professional success of international researchers (opinion)

January 18, 2021

Sonali Majumdar and Jenny Schneider discuss three distinct strengths developed from international researchers' lived experiences that are valuable for professional success.

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Advice for how to get the most important things done in grad school (opinion)

January 11, 2021

To succeed, all grad students must develop a sense of how to manage the big, relatively unconstrained nature of their work and how to reach imprecise goals, writes Victoria McGovern.

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The career advantages of sharing your research with a broad audience beyond academe (opinion)

January 4, 2021

Pallavi Eswara describes the career advantages of sharing your research and its impact with a broad audience beyond academe.

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How to be a change agent for diversity, equity and inclusion in your career and job search (opinion)

December 14, 2020

Deborah S. Willis explores how, even in a quest for employment, seeking to access and support organizations' commitment to diversity, equity and social justice goals can be beneficial.

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The importance of a job interview as a data-gathering opportunity (opinion)

December 7, 2020

Recognizing that an interview is a data-gathering opportunity can help you to focus on not just if you are the right fit for the job, but if it is the right fit for you, advises Lauren Easterling.

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The significant yet often untapped value of mutual support among graduate students (opinion)

November 30, 2020

Derek Attig describes the significant yet often untapped value of mutual support among graduate students.

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Coaching techniques for when you come to a fork in the road on your career journey (opinion)

November 23, 2020

Coaching techniques can provide career clarity, writes Rebekah Layton, who shares one you can use in your own career journey when approaching major forks in the road.

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How to use public engagement effectively to educate others and bolster your career (opinion)

November 16, 2020

Through public engagement, you can educate others as well as bolster your career, writes Erica Gobrogge. To determine which opportunities to pursue, consider a four-step approach.

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How to get the most out of one-on-one career advising (opinion)

November 9, 2020

Natalie Lundsteen and Diane A. Safer outline the essentials for getting the most out of one-on-one career advising.

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Academia must reconsider its binary thinking and be open to new metaphors that lead to new practices (opinion)

November 2, 2020

We need to exchange our binary thinking for new, more capacious metaphors -- those that will free us to think about new practices, argues James M. Van Wyck.

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