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Are You Sabotaging Your Career Search?

Christine Kelly offers some questions you should ask to avoid sabotaging your career search.
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A Time for Arrogance

Jennifer M. Gómez reflects on what she found to be a discriminatory job market -- and the resulting need for a greater allegiance to herself.
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Finding Next Steps in Past Accomplishments

Previous successes demonstrate that members of a group have achieved goals together before and can do so again, writes Judith S. White.
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What Can I Do With a Ph.D. in My Discipline Outside Academe?

Skills and knowledge gained from relevant work experience -- and not credentials -- are what will open doors and create opportunities for graduate degree holders, write Jennifer Polk and L. Maren Wood.
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How to Talk to Students With Ill-Considered Beliefs

Simply presenting the facts is generally not effective in changing minds on a charged issue, writes Gleb Tsipursky.
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When Life Unbalances Your Work

Leah Colvin provides advice for the times when upheavals in life change everything you thought you knew about your work self.
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Is Gender Bias an Intended Feature of Teaching Evaluations?

Such evaluations pretend to be the result of a neutral process but are better measures of student stereotypes than teaching effectiveness, argues Victor Ray.
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Trading the Tenure Track for Tech

Chandra Y. Osborn explains why she walked away from a position at a prestigious university to join a tech start-up -- and what she learned about academic research along the way.