L. Maren Wood is the director and chief executive of the Center for Graduate Career Success. Through its two digital platforms — Beyond the Professoriate (for Ph.D.s) and Beyond Graduate School (for master’s students) — the center partners with about 80 universities to offer career support for graduate students and postdocs.
Stories by This Author
Advice
Be curious and open-minded about your options, and network, network, network.
Advice
How to assess your odds of finding a faculty job and figure out when to pivot to another career.
Advice
With hiring on hold in many sectors, what should graduate students, postdocs, and their universities be doing?
Advice
Job candidates with the misfortune to be searching for tenure-track positions this year or next will need as many career options as they can get.
Advice
A new project seeks to measure the extent of the mental-health crisis not just in graduate school but beyond it, among early-career Ph.D.s.
Advice
Career transitions for Ph.D.s cannot be mapped, which is why the road is so difficult and so draining for so many.
The Review
Graduate programs should foster alumni networks and provide opportunities for students to articulate their skills.
Hiring
Tenure-track jobs in the field tend to go to scholars who have just earned, or are wrapping up, their Ph.D.s. Here’s a look at the data from Vitae’s JobTracker project.
Faculty
Some advisers say young scholars should expect to spend several years looking for tenure-track positions; others emphasize the need to strike quickly. Vitae’s JobTracker project tries to get a read on the reality.
First Person
The anxiety that many Ph.D. students feel about admitting their nonfaculty aspirations is justified.
