Why You Need a LinkedIn Profile
Recently, I attended a conference dinner and sat at a table with seven undergraduate physics students. All of them were nearing graduation and the conversation […]
Month: October 2014
Informational Interviews Explained
Have you ever had the career office (or other well wishers) tell you that you should go on “informational interviews” with companies that interest you? […]
Formal Approaches to Finding a Mentor
I recently wrote about the reasons you should not consider your graduate school advisor to be your mentor too. That discussion naturally begs the question […]
Your Advisor is Not Your Mentor
If you had asked me during graduate school what the difference between an “advisor” and a “mentor” was, I would have said they were synonymous. […]
Know the Odds of Becoming a Research University Professor
When I was in high school, some of my friends and I would occasionally play a strategy board game call Axis & Allies. We did […]