This is an easy one. Your program’s ranking certainly can have an effect, but it doesn’t necessarily spell INSTANT JOB. It also doesn’t necessarily spell INSTANT REJECT. It all...
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Where’s the Road Ahead? It’s Beneath Your Feet. One of the most touching emails I ever got from my father, a successful tenured professor and excellent mentor with worldwide recognition and...
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Remember how you set up a great project management system to organize your PhD project? Yeah, me neither. Organizing around a process is the foundation of many professional project...
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One of the biggest problems I know that PhDs have when thinking about taking the leap into a new job, whether directly from academia or from an existing “real...
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“You do research; don’t let research do you.” Here’s what most PhD students do (esp in bench-based PhDs): Avoid doing things they know they have to do but...
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