Career Development
The Career Development core capacity encourages and supports PhD students as they plan and prepare for their career after their academic training. Individuals will define their professional goals and ways to achieve them, as well as their values, interests, attitudes, and skills. Be sure to complete the digital badges for Career Development in the PhD Progression online training program.
- PhD Progression ProgramThis is an online training program for BU students that offers individual modules (badges) to support your career and professional development over the course of your PhD and help you prepare for your post-PhD career.
Designing your life : how to build a well-lived, joyful life by
Introduction: life by design -- Start where you are -- Building a compass -- Wayfinding -- Getting unstuck -- Design your lives -- Prototyping -- How not to get a job -- Designing your dream job -- Choosing happiness -- Failure immunity -- Building a team -- Conclusion: a well designed life.
ISBN: 9781101875339Publication Date: 2016
Designing Your New Work Life by
In Designing Your New Work Life, Burnett and Evans show us, with tools, tips, and design ideas, how we can make new possibilities available even when our lives have been disrupted (be it globally, regionally, or personally), giving us the tools to enjoy the present moment and allowing us to begin to prototype our possible future.
ISBN: 9780593467459Publication Date: 2021-10-26
Taking Charge of Your Career (HBR Women at Work Series) by
"As a woman, enduring setbacks-and finding fulfillment-on your career path is challenging. We face a lack of support, the effects of unconscious bias and negative assumptions working against us, and disruptive career pauses. Taking Charge of Your Career helps readers navigate the tricky territory of charting a rewarding and meaningful career path. Whether you're new to the workforce, reentering after a pause, or are trying to find your way through a mid-career slump, you'll find research, advice, and practical tips to help you move forward. This book will inspire you to: decide what a meaningful career looks like to you; align yourself with the right supporters and mentors; approach hard decisions with confidence; navigate tricky transitions; and rebound from setbacks."
ISBN: 1647824656Publication Date: 2023
Change Your Questions, Change Your Life by
"How can questions lead to the biggest breakthroughs and successes? In the latest edition of the bestselling classic, Marilee Adams shares that great results begin with great questions. When we're looking for answers, we often forget to take the time to ask the right questions. But, as Marilee Adams shows, intentionally using questions helps us make wiser choices, find solutions, and transform our personal and professional lives. Drawing on decades of research and experience as a coach and consultant, Adams uses a highly interesting and entertaining fable that illustrates how to recognize and reframe undermining questions to ones that open us to learning, connection, and success. Asking "What great things could happen today?" creates very different expectations than asking "What could go wrong today?" Change Your Questions, Change Your Life is an international bestseller with over 400,000 copies sold. This revised edition contains many of the elements that made the previous editions a success, including the Choice Map and Learner/Judger mindsets, along with new neuroscience research"
ISBN: 9781523091058Publication Date: 2022
Leaving Academia by
With the academic job market in such crisis, Leaving Academia helps grad students and academics in any scholarly field find satisfying careers beyond higher education. Short and pragmatic, the book offers invaluable advice to visiting and adjunct instructors ready to seek new opportunities, to scholars caught in "tenure-trap" jobs, to grad students interested in nonacademic work, and to committed academics who want to support their students and contingent colleagues more effectively.
ISBN: 9780691209869Publication Date: 2022
The Power of a PhD: How Anyone Can Use Their PhD to Get Hired in Industry by
PhDs are in demand in industry, but often, these PhDs are invisible to potential employers. Dr. Isaiah Hankel, leverages his expertise as the CEO of the world's largest career training platform for PhDs, Cheeky Scientist, to help PhDs overcome their biggest obstacle: obscurity.
ISBN: 163195847XPublication Date: 2023
So What Are You Going to Do with That? by
Will I have to wear a suit? rethinking life after graduate school -- Getting your head ready -- Should I finish my dissertation? -- How to use your grad school years wisely -- So what am I going to do? -- Myths about post-academic careers -- Questions about graduate school and your future -- Your eclectic mix -- Post-academic profile: Abby Markoe, A.B.D. history of medicine, executive, director -- Squashwise -- How do I figure out what else to do? soul-searching before job searching -- Take inventory -- Break it down -- Looking backward: seven stories -- Guilty pleasures -- "This is your brain on graduate school" -- No need for a #2 pencil -- Where are all those PhDs anyway? -- Create your own possibilities -- Post-academic profile: Samantha Sutton, PhD in biology, life coach -- Asking the big questions: how to figure out if you want them and if they want you -- Asking the big questions -- Answering the big questions: three strategies -- Transitional tales -- So what's next? -- Post-academic profile: Xiuwen Tu, PhD in physics, Sun Power Corporation, device and characterization engineer -- This might hurt a bit: turning a CV into a résumé -- Getting ready to write a résumé -- Writing a résumé: the first draft -- A few more words of advice -- After you've drafted a résumé -- Case studies and sample résumés -- Cover letters that will get you hired -- Post-academic profile: Alyssa Picard, PhD in history, staff representative for the Michigan Affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers -- Sweaty palms, warm heart: how to turn an interview into a job -- Before the interview -- During the interview -- After the interview -- What if the interview doesn't go well? -- The job offer (or lack thereof) -- Negotiation -- Adjusting to your new job -- Post-academic profile: Scott Keeter, PhD in political science, director of Survey Research, Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
ISBN: 9780226200378Publication Date: 2014-12-26
- The Changing Landscape of Doctoral Education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics: PhD Students, Faculty Advisors, and Preferences for Varied Career OptionsThe landscape of graduate science education is changing as efforts to diversify the professoriate have increased because academic faculty jobs at universities have grown scarce and more competitive.
- Professional development and career-preparedness experiences of STEM Ph.D. students: Gaps and avenues for improvementThis study presents the experiences of current science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) Ph.D. students and alumni with respect to professional development opportunities in their Ph.D. training. Specifically, it investigates if and how the Ph.D. training supports graduates to pursue non-academic and non-R&D roles, which have become increasingly common career paths post-graduation.
- A career in academia? Determinants of academic career aspirations among PhD students in one research university in the USBased on the data analysis of a sample of 316 doctoral students in a public, research-oriented U.S. university, we provide a discussion of key factors identified as important to doctoral students’ career aspirations and conclude with implications for practice and future research. Published in 2018
- Finding Professional Growth and Fulfillment for Early-Career Polymer Scientists and Engineers in IndustryEditor’s Note: This 2024 Editorial is for informational purposes, sharing personal accounts and experiences of the authors who are academics and researchers in the USA. As a result. the advice and guidance herein come in general from a western perspective, but we hope early career researchers worldwide will find the central themes and advice useful.
- Creating Cohesive Career Narratives in Your Resume, Cover Letter, and LinkedIn ProfileRecording from a UPenn Career Talk Series given in November 2024, this webinar provides an overview of the key differences between resumes, cover letters, and LinkedIn and how to leverage them in a complementary way to tell a compelling career narrative to potential connections and recruiters. Also covers the changes AI is making to job search processes, both on the recruiter and job candidate sides.
- Non-Academic Job Search Strategies for STEM PhDsThis workshop will guide participants through developing a strategic approach to job searching, as well as providing information, tips, and advice on career opportunities for PhDs in STEM fields. This workshop was offered by the BU Professional Development and Postdoctoral Affairs office in 2021. Log in with your BU credentials to watch the recording.
- Identifying and Articulating Transferable SkillsLearn how to reflect on past work experience to identify essential transferrable skills, and how to describe existing skills for audiences within and beyond academia. This workshop was offered by the BU Professional Development and Postdoctoral Affairs office in 2021. Log in with your BU credentials to watch the recording.
- BU MyMedia Channel - Professional Development & Postdoctoral AffairsAdditional workshops on this topic may be found here. You will need your BU credentials to log in and see recordings. Professional Development and Postdoctoral Affairs (PDPA) offers a variety of workshops, panels, and other events to guide doctoral students in their career development and exploration. Recordings of past workshops and events can be found on this channel. You can find the slides and related handouts from the recorded workshop sessions in the "attachments" tab under each recording.