Versatile PhD Monthly Message

Greetings! I hope springtime is bringing you a sense of renewal.

Have you ever used the PhD Career Finder? Or has it been a while? This tool on the VPhD site helps you explore non-academic careers, narrow down your choices, and get a concrete start towards careers that actually interest you. Here’s a short tutorial to show you how to get the most from it.

There have also been some great threads in the forums lately:

· "How do you get people to want to help you?" – About networking and how to build the kind of constructive, helpful relationships that you really want.

· "Informational interviews: why?” – About understanding the purpose of informational interviews and whether they are really necessary.

· “Share your success stories”- In which people who are very happy in their non-academic careers explain why they are happy.

More details and links to each are here.

Finally, if you haven’t taken the national survey on graduate student and postdoc health and wellbeing, please do: http://vphd.info/1ROiuy6

Your Loving Founder,

Paula Chambers, Ph.D.