Happy August! As we round out these last few weeks of summer – and if you are in the Philadelphia area they are a very warm last few weeks of summer – we want to remind you about Penn’s partnership with The …
Check out this post from the Carpe Careers blog published on the Inside Higher Ed website – written by PhD/postdoc career advisors for PhD students and postdocs:
By Antoine Tirard and Claire Harbour
The stories of three executives “lifers” who found flourishing while working in just one company.
We have been writing about radical career changes for almost five years until this question came up: What about …
At Career Services, the Graduate Student/Postdoc team has had a very busy summer planning an exciting event: our 2022 Faculty Job Search Prep Camp.
If you’re planning to apply for faculty jobs, either in this upcoming cycle or in the …
In the recent H-1B visa lottery, 483,927 applications were filed for only 85,000 available visas. This means that more than 80 percent of applicants wanting an H-1B visa, which allows internationals to work in the U.S., won’t get one.
To …
I’m guessing the title caught your eye, haha. I’ll make this quick. For the first time this summer, I took a week away – and during that week, did NOT check my work email, Teams channels, group texts, calendar or …
Here is your new post from the Carpe Careers blog, published on the Inside Higher Ed website – written by PhD/postdoc career advisors for PhD students and postdocs:
In the spring of 2022, 34 PhD students from a range of academic disciplines at Penn participated virtually in Career Services’ PhD Career Exploration Fellowship (CEF) program, where they were matched with a host organization to learn about different careers …
Running Fairygodboss, I hear a lot of opinions about what women should do in order to be successful.
Most of it is amazingly helpful and thoughtful. But sometimes, I hear things that are well-intentioned but worrisome (and potentially misleading) in …
Dear Ask Alexis,
Over the last few years, I’ve been doing quite a bit of volunteering. I’m concerned, however, that some of my stints may be just a little controversial depending on the organization I’m applying to work for now …
