Physicists, Marines, and the Art of Doing
“Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome” Those of you with a connection to the United States Marine Corps will recognize the above words as one of their […]
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Chasing a Job that Was Never There
Once, I went on a job interview for a post-doc position at a large national laboratory. It went very well. When I followed up, however, […]
Resumes, Job Advertisements, and the Black Hole Effect
How do you find a job? I once thought (as many people do) that the process is simple and linear: 1. Write Resume 2. Find […]
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. […]