Career Advice

This is one of the wrong questions that students often ask when they consider career plans, writes Christine Kelly.

We need to find better ways to evaluate faculty members in professional disciplines for tenure and promotion -- a sort of "professional analytics," Michael Bugeja argues.

By helping you network and practice your pitch, among other things, they can be crucial to an effective job search, says Joseph Barber.

Even after gaining tenure, Jennifer Lundquist and Joya Misra warn, you may well face a relentless and often invisible set of career demands that can confuse and frustrate family members.

The one thing that will actually lead to a completed dissertation, writes Kerry Ann Rockquemore, is the hardest thing for doctoral students to do.

We should question the beliefs that we hold about career success, writes Stephanie K. Eberle, and explore how they can sometimes stand in our way.

Having just completed the process, Ramon B. Goings shares what he wished he'd known when he started.