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Career Advice Carpe Careers

Choose Your Adventure

Victoria McGovern offers advice to help graduate students cultivate an interdisciplinary mindset.

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Behold: The Administrative Postdoc

Administrative postdoc positions offer advantages for Ph.D.s looking to transition into a range of career paths, Alex Yen and Anne-Charlotte Mecklenburg write.

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Preparing Proactively for a Postdoc

These are some actions a Ph.D. student can take to pave the way for a positive postdoc experience, Chris Smith writes.

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Meet the Meta Postdoc

Ivonne Vidal Pizarro highlights two fellowships that prepare postdocs for careers in research-adjacent fields.

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Career Advice Carpe Careers

Avoiding Small Talk? You Might Be Missing Out

Small talk is a career skill worth developing, Kay Gruder writes.

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Students and Research Mentors Can Navigate Career Conversations Together

Raquel Y. Salinas offers advice for graduate students and research mentors on how to have better conversations about career planning.

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Collaboration Is Key

Marieke Van Puymbroeck and Jenny Presgraves offer advice for building participation in a professional development program for graduate students and postdocs.

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Commit to Learning Something New

Laura Kuizin offers advice for maximizing the benefits of online learning to transform your professional development and network.