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Careers and Mentorship

Resources and guidance on academic careers and mentorship:

The PhD student's dilemma
Five reasons to do an internship during your PhD programme
The mental health of PhD researchers demands urgent attention
What not to do in graduate school
What I wish my friends and family knew about my PhD
Why comparing yourself to other graduate students is counter-productive
Design your own doctoral project
Five 'power skills' for becoming a team leader
Overcoming my writing guilt: writing in lockdown
The 100 memes that immortalize my PhD defence
Sell yourself and your science in a compelling personal statement
Why you should consider becoming a doctoral representative
'Hard' skills from our PhDs remain relevant beyond academia
How to manage the uncertainty of a remote PhD
Managing up: how to communicate effectively with your PhD adviser
You can help to create a new researcher-reward system
How I tackled post-PhD imposter syndrome
Six lessons from a pandemic PhD student
PhD students face cash crisis with wages that don't cover living costs
How to find, read and organize papers
How to manage your time as a researcher
How mixing academia and industry opens doors in graduate school and beyond
Why I use Notion to organize my PhD research
Time tracking for early-career researchers: a practical guide
Insights from four female scientists caught at the early-career crossroads
Hunger on campus: why US PhD students are fighting over food
How we landed job interviews for professorships straight out of our PhD programmes
How to network with the brightest minds in science
How a peer network made my worst day as a grad student bearable
My productivity waxes and wanes — and I'm learning to account for it
Three actions PhD-holders should take to land their next job
How two PhD students overcame the odds to snag tenure-track jobs
What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision
PhD scientists who forged a career off the beaten track
Five important financial moves for PhD students
Should I return to my home country after my PhD abroad?
Stressed out by PhD life? Five strategies to take back the joy
You're only human: a six-step strategy to surviving your PhD
Why you should write your PhD thesis backwards
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    Job Boards

    ACCP | American College of Clinical Pharmacy
    APhA | American Pharmacists Association
    APHA | American Public Health Association
    ASHP | American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
    ASM Committee on Postgraduate Education and Practice (CPEP) Fellowships
    ASM | American Society for Microbiology
    ASPET Editorial Fellowship
    ASPET | American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
    FASEB | Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
    JAMA Editorial Fellowship
    Nature Careers
    Science Careers
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