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Graduate Students, Take Charge
You must be responsible for pursuing your own professional options while sorting through insights from faculty members, professional staff and peers, counsels Alfreda James.
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Building an Endpoint to Your Faculty Job Search
How long should you spend on the faculty job market? Derek Attig offers some concrete advice.
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The Trauma of Graduate Education
Such trauma impacts graduate students as they produce CVs, cover letters and other job search materials, writes Beth Godbee, and we should acknowledge and address it.
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3 Informational Interview Mistakes
Many students are unclear how to conduct such conversations and are potentially sabotaging future career prospects, writes Thomas Magaldi.
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Speaking Up for Change
Adriana Bankston offers six tips for how to effectively use your voice to benefit society early in your academic career.
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Finding the Information You Need
When you ask people you don’t know for career help, you may be surprised by how generous they can be, writes Victoria McGovern, who gives some suggestions on how best to reach out.
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How Graduate Advisers Can Bolster Their Career Guidance
James M. Van Wyck offers some specific advice on how they can help their Ph.D. mentees.
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Job Search Myths Worth Shattering
Don’t believe everything you read about the job search, advises Joseph Barber.