What Has Really Changed in Job Searching Since Your Parents’ Generation? Most likely, your parents did all of their job searching in person: they may have gone to career fairs, interviewed in-person, and networked at stuffy conferences. If your mom or dad tells you to “network”, it’s easy to brush them off saying “everything is […]
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Is Getting a PhD Eroding Your Self-Confidence?
Noelle had an interview for a faculty position at a prestigious university, but she was terrified every time she thought about it. Noelle knew that getting the interview in itself was a major accomplishment, but she was filled with self-doubt and thought she wasn’t worthy of the job because: She made mistakes in her research while getting […]
The One Thing That PhDs Would Do Differently in Graduate School
What would you do differently in graduate school if you could go back in time? I know many PhDs have regrets about their graduate school experience, especially if it took longer to complete than expected. I interviewed over 100 PhDs who are now successful professionals in industry or academia and I asked them “What would you […]
The Three Big Mistakes All Graduate Students Must Avoid
Graduate School Can Be The Best Part of Your Life…But look out for these three common mistakes I am really excited to share a guest article this week from Maria Athanassiou, PhD, Founder of The Cancer Cure, a non-profit foundation to educate cancer patients about treatment options. When I first read Maria’s article, what struck me right away […]
5 Reasons It is Worth Getting Your PhD Degree, After All
I Didn’t Question Whether it Was Worth Getting My PhD Degree Until my Second Year… “To be honest, if I could do it over again, I never would have gone to grad school to get a PhD degree.” The day Jess told me that, we were cleaning the -80°C freezer together. She was in […]
Grad School Survival: What You MUST Do to Finish Your Thesis
Click here to get a copy of Dora’s book “Finish Your Thesis Faster” Grad School Does’t Last Forever (even if it feels like it will) Grad school started out really well for me. I was enamored with my thesis topic (yes, really) and I had a great relationship with my thesis supervisor. During my first […]