In this article for Inside Higher Ed, Dr. Rebekah Layton, director of professional development programs in the Office of Graduate Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, gives tips on how to begin exploring career pathways early on in graduate training.
She describes her own feelings of panic when she realized the faculty track wasn’t the right fit, as well as the competing priorities that came to light in her search for a new path (financial and family needs, anxiety, and more.) Speaking from her experience, she encourages a, “systematic personalized career exploration plan ” and lays out detailed instructions to create such a plan.
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