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Tag Archives: PhD
The downside of goals
Your goal gives purpose to your life right now. That’s a good thing. It enables you to do all the small, sometimes menial, things that bring you closer to reaching that goal.
You expect to feel elated when you achieve your goal. But you might feel adrift, purposeless. From the perspective of having achieved the goal, it’s purpose might even seem inadequate. Continue reading
Posted in Career Planning, My services
Tagged Conscious Careers, goals, happily ever after, PhD, purpose
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Publishing from your dissertation
It is a fact of life that if you want an academic job you need to publish. For most early career academics, or PhD students contemplating academic careers, this means thinking about your dissertation. This post looks at the options: book or articles; and what kind of articles. Continue reading
Posted in Career Planning, Publishing
Tagged academic job search, book publishing, careers, dissertation, journal articles, PhD
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PhD programs are not career training
A degree may be necessary but it is never sufficient
There is no job for which an educational qualification is enough to get you hired.
There is no job for which an educational qualification provides all the necessary skills and knowledge.
A degree, whatever it is, is always but one piece of a complex puzzle. Continue reading
Posted in Career Planning
Tagged careers, cover letter, CV, employers, employment, experience, faculty, fit, journals, PhD, presses, publication, RA, Research Assistant, résumé, supervisor
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Useful answers for “What are you going to do with that?”
It’s all well and good for me to say it isn’t the right question. People still ask it. People you care about. People you have trouble ignoring or being snarky to. So what do you say? Assume the best intentions … Continue reading
Believe it or not, I do this for a living
I never would have imagined it were possible. Given that there was no internet when I was a teenager, running my own business over the internet is obviously not something I’ve wanted to do forever. In fact, running my own … Continue reading
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Tagged academic, blog, business, career change, coaching, early career, humanities, joy, mid-career, Naomi Dunford, PhD, social sciences, University Affairs
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