Episode 24: 5 ways faculty can be better mentors

09/29/21 • 16 min

Many faculty are worried about the career prospects of their doctoral students and postdocs, but are often unsure of how they can help students transition into meaningful nonacademic careers. In this episode, Maren suggests ways faculty can become more familiar with the professional job market, and the challenges their students face when they begin a career transition.

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Episode 23: Are these common networking mistakes holding you back?

Networking, it might as well be a four-letter word. Talking to strangers, talking about yourself, there's nothing more awkward, right? Yah, that does sound terrible. But the good news is ... there's another way to think about networking, which is about building community, gathering information, and making connections.
In this episode, Maren will help you rethink networking so that you're building lasting connections with people who will help you in your job search because your connections are real, genuine, and built around common interests and values.

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Episode 25: Here's where jobs for grad students and PhDs actually are.

A lot of "alt ac" jobs that are promoted by academic departments to their students are unicorn jobs - they are rumored to exist in nature, but are rare and difficult to find. That's because so many of the jobs PhDs were landing in the 1980s and 1990s aren't growing fields anymore. They've become saturated with PhDs, just like the academic job market.
For PhDs who are moving out of academia, you want to move into careers where there are numerous opportunities to be paid well and make a difference. Here are the growing career sectors you should look into if you're serious about career security.