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How to Discuss Work-Life Balance
Before approaching the subject with your future or current supervisor, you should consider their interests, advises Stephanie K. Eberle.
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Making Leadership and Service Count in the Job Search
Graduate students need to recognize the marketability and value of their unpaid work and anticipate how it could be attractive to a future employer, writes Amanda Cornwall.
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On Gratitude and Leadership
Adriana Bankston offers the following advice for being a good team leader both in academe and outside it.
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Getting Up to Speed on Diversity
Employers are increasingly requiring job applicants to demonstrate both commitment and contributions to diversity, equity and inclusion, writes Deborah S. Willis, who gives advice to graduate students on how to do so.
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Crafting a Research Practice After the Ph.D.
If you’re contemplating a nonfaculty career, the idea of giving up your research might be keeping you from going forward, writes Melissa Dalgleish. But such a move doesn't mean you have to relinquish your passion.
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Writing Successful Grant Proposals
Most sizable grants are just too large and complex to write in a single heroic burst of last-minute effort, says Victoria McGovern, who offers advice on how to craft successful proposals.
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Sorting Out Career Assessments
Saundra Loffredo summarizes several of the more popular ones, what they measure and how they can be useful to you.
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Don’t Let Your Dissertation Run Your Life
If you allow it to take over, you will be missing crucial aspects of the world outside your office, lab or library, warns David A. McDonald.