Seeking a Faculty Job

You need guidance beyond what a faculty adviser can offer, writes Tithi Basu Mallik, who recommends identifying other people who can provide three key dimensions of support.

Beyond providing writing support, they can help you develop a peer network with colleagues and hone important transferable skills, writes Katie Homar, who advises how to maximize their benefits.

Social comparison can make an already stressful situation much worse, writes Irina Filonova, who offers some strategies for how to deal with it.

Diane A. Safer provides specific recommendations for both a career counselor guiding Ph.D. grads and postdocs before they start new positions as well as those trainees once they’re on the job.

Jovana Milosavljevic Ardeljan explores how students can best navigate academe’s hidden curriculum of implicit and unwritten expectations, values and rules.

Shoba Subramanian, Maggie Gardner and Beth Bodiya share advice for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and educators on how to develop trainee networks for enhancing professional growth during training and beyond.

People can progress and grow in different ways, writes Lauren Easterling, who raises questions to help you think through what that might specifically look like for you.

The networking process unfolds over several years, and you should slowly navigate your connections toward more purposeful engagement in the future, writes Andrew Crain.