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"4 Crucial LinkedIn Strategies for Career Changers to Implement Today," by Heidi Scott GiustoHeidi Scott Giusto explains how PhDs and PhD students can use LinkedIn as a tool for career transition, and gives four strategies that can help anyone use their LinkedIn profile with a purpose—and jump-start career changes. Monday, March 19, 2018 - 4:30pm |
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From Doctoral Study to … Assessment CareersAs part of a series on nonfaculty careers in academia for PhDs, Jennifer S. Furlong and Julie Miller Vick discuss the increasingly growing alternative career path of campus assessment. They suggest that assessment is a career which appears especially well-suited for PhDs with an interest in applied research, and provide readers with advice on how to build career options into this field. Saturday, March 10, 2018 - 4:15pm |
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"Calling Academe's Bluff," by Colleen FlahertyAn interview with Erin Bartram, whose recent essay on the disciplinary loss of knowledge (as well as the personal sense of loss) that comes with leaving academia took the internet by storm. Responding to the critiques on her piece, Bartram emphasizes that it was meant to incite a reaction and have people thinking about how academia currently functions as a system. Saturday, February 24, 2018 - 4:15pm |
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"The Sublimated Grief of the Left Behind" by Erin BartramIn an essay that took the academic internet by storm, Erin Bartram asks her reader grieve the loss in disciplinary knowledge with her—launching a new genre of "quit lit," which shifts its focus from the person leaving to those 'left behind,' and asks us to consider the disciplinary and institutional loss that occurs when people leave academia. Monday, February 19, 2018 - 4:00pm |
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"How to Translate Your Skills into Language Non-Academic Employers Understand" by Maren WoodAs part of the Transitioning PhD Blog Series, Maren Wood describes how PhD candidates and recently minted PhDs can identify the transferable skills they have gained in their academic work experience, and convey them to potential non-academic employers. Using examples from academia, such as writing syllabi, Wood provides an exercise in transferring academic skills to a non-academic workplace. Thursday, February 8, 2018 - 3:30pm |
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"Where the Grass is Greener" by Colleen FlahertyGood news! Colleen Flaherty reports that a new study of some 5.000 humanities and social sciences PhDs finds that those working outside of academia, for example in nonprofits, are significantly happier than their peers working in academic institutions. The study has the potential to help PhD students prepare for and envision a career beyond the professoriate, as most notably the work satisfaction of PhDs working outside the academy is much higher than that of their tenured peers. Monday, February 5, 2018 - 4:00pm |
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"Strategies for Cultivating Strength and Optimism Off the Tenure Track" by Tracy JenkinsAs part of the Transitioning PhD Blog Series, Tracy Jenkins discusses how self-reflection offers the possibility to cultivate the strength and boldness it may require to look beyond the professoriate for a job. She describes several strategies that can help cultivate the confidence that one can be successful outside of the 'safe' confines of academia. Saturday, February 3, 2018 - 3:45pm |
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"Leaving Academia: Four Questions to Jumpstart Your Transition to a Meaningful Career" by Jennifer PolkIn the Transitioning PhD Blog Series, Jennifer Polk writes about the four questions any academic should ask themselves before transitioning to a career beyond the professoriate, to help them think through their departure from academia. Offering her own personal experience, as well as the experiences of others she has worked with, Polk challenges readers to think beyond their own narrow ideas of work beyond the professoriate. Tuesday, January 30, 2018 - 3:45pm |
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"The History Ph.D.: Beyond ‘Alt-Ac’" by Colleen FlahertyColleen Flaherty explains the recommendations of the American Historical Association, who stress that departments set their graduate students up for interdisciplinary and collaborative research experiences that go beyond the theshold of academia. This, the AHA argues, will give graduate students the skills and support to succeed in nonfaculty jobs, and directly counter the implication that these jobs are somehow 'less than' faculty jobs. Thursday, January 11, 2018 - 5:30pm |
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7th Annual Postdoctoral Career Symposium - Registration OpenPre-registration to attend the 7th Annual Postdoctoral Career Symposium (APCS) is now open. The event will be held on Thursday February 15th 2018 from 7:30 am to 6:30 pm pm at Mid-Campus 1 Building, MD Anderson Cancer Center.
The registration fills up fast, so register early to ensure that you get a spot in the APCS! You will initially register on a wait list and you will receive full confirmation a week after we close registration. Register here.
The title of this year’s APCS is “Put your career in gear”. We have organized a full day of breakout sessions and workshops that will be useful for postdoctoral researchers and graduate students to understand their future career choices and opportunities in the biomedical field and beyond. We will also offer networking opportunities after each session in the form of Coffee Breaks and during a formal reception in the evening. We have confirmed speakers from GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly, Novartis, McKinsey and many more! Do not miss this unique opportunity to put your career in gear!
Keynote: Dr. Kevin Folta Professor and Chairman of Horticultural Sciences
For more information please visit http://www.apcstmc.org. Monday, January 8, 2018 - 4:45pm |