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Great  Links and Resources

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From University of Michigan's Career Center

Three Useful Guides

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Assessments & examples (UC Irvine - 34pp)
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12 Success Stories (Vrije Universiteit - Amsterdam)
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Humanities Advice APA (34pp)
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Some Inter-web Resources

  • Beyond the Professorate: Useful free webinars and advice from panels of successful people.
  • Cheeky Scientist: Helps a person explore industry opportunities and provides monthly updates.
  • Imagine PhD:  Helps Humanities and Social Scient PhDs reflect, explore, and plan their next steps.
  • MyIDP - On-line assessment tool to help with STEM PhDs find the best fit. 
  • PhD Career Guide: Here's ots of career options to pursue that aren't in academics. 
  • Versatile PhD: This is a ABD PhD support group to fine a job outside academia. 
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Sociology (Berkeley - Slides)

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How to impress your advisor 

Top ways to annoy your advisor

1.   Disappear
2.   Mess around with dates and deadlines 
3.   Ask for help before trying to solve it yourself
4.   Leave our meetings without knowing what to do next
5.   Talk to other academics without discussing with them first

10 Nonobvious tips for PhD Advisor success

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José M. Torralba (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

​1. A relationship between equals
2. Inspiration and creation of ideas
3. Means
4. Progress of the work
5. Cooperation
6. Encouragement
7. Managing discrepancies
8. Knowledge transfer
9 Professional projection
​10. Relationship forever

Ten types of PhD supervisor relationships

• Clone
• Cheap labor
• "Ghost advisor"
• Buddy
• Collateral damage
• Combatnat
• Creepy Crawlers
• Captivate and con
•Counselor
​• Colleague in training
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Susanna Chamberlain (Griffith University)