Finding great mentors is a skill that takes patience, diligence, trial, and error. Sometimes these connections emerge organically, but more often than not, it's up to you to direct the search.

On our blog, Alexandra Sastre shares how you can find the right mentors for your career journey.

https://ideasonfire.net/finding-mentors/

#Mentorship #AcademicMentorship #HigherEducation #AcademicService #GraduateSchool #PhD #WithAPhD #IdeasOnFire

Making your experience and skills legible to non-academic employers is crucial to landing the job. Alexandra Sastre shares how you can translate your academic experience into a #CareerNarrative for #PostAcJobs.

https://ideasonfire.net/post-academic-career-narrative/

#WithAPhD #AltAc #PostAc #IdeasOnFire

Dear academic who just told me that the tech transfer people (ie me) only do the fun part while the academics do the hard work of discovery, if you don’t love your job it’s okay to leave. #altac #withaphd

Today I went to see the inaugural lecture of someone who became a full professor. She is about the same age as me and it made me reflect about leaving academia. Five years ago I would have been very jealous of this person, now I’m mostly happy for her and vaguely wonder what my life had been like in the alternate universe where I had stayed in academia. The academic brainwashing is strong and hard to get rid of. #altac #withaphd #recoveringacademic

Some days, I’m so relieved I’ve left academia, like when the president of the Dutch scientific organization writes a column saying the need for psychological safety is going too far (really?!) https://twitter.com/marcellevi/status/1591675601282531331?s=46&t=G4Bk9__6eR5bpkeq2MObDw
On that same day though, I see the boss of my boss like this same piece on LinkedIn and I realize it’s the same sh*t everywhere 🤦🏼‍♀️
#altac #withaphd #work #psychologicalsafety

When you’re asked to take tasks/projects that are above your level, the line between “doing it for exposure/experience” and inflation of the job level is thin… #industry #withaphd #work

@brewedculture Glad to see you here, friend!! Now we just gotta get #CareerDiversity and #WithaPhD trending too.