Astronomy
It's almost the end of July, and summer is slipping by fast. As a new academic year approaches, some of us are looking forward to beginning new jobs. A perennial question around this time of year is, what advice do you have for brand new faculty members? How do you make the transition from postdoc to professor? I pose these questions to readers of this blog with no small amount of self-interest, I must admit.
While I'm at it, what advice would you give to newly minted PhDs becoming brand new postdocs?
My own advice to new postdocs would be to network like mad and build up your professional connections. Doing research and publishing papers should go without saying, but networking is vital for career development. So knock on doors, strike up conversations, go to conferences, and ask questions during talks.
Now it's your turn: what advice would you give new postdocs? faculty members? What do you wish you had been told when you started your new job?
-by Hannah
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Astronomy
Starting up
It's almost the end of July, and summer is slipping by fast. As a new academic year approaches, some of us are looking forward to beginning new jobs. A perennial question around this time of year is, what advice do you have for brand new faculty members? How do you make the transition from postdoc to professor? I pose these questions to readers of this blog with no small amount of self-interest, I must admit.
While I'm at it, what advice would you give to newly minted PhDs becoming brand new postdocs?
My own advice to new postdocs would be to network like mad and build up your professional connections. Doing research and publishing papers should go without saying, but networking is vital for career development. So knock on doors, strike up conversations, go to conferences, and ask questions during talks.
Now it's your turn: what advice would you give new postdocs? faculty members? What do you wish you had been told when you started your new job?
-by Hannah
- Career Profiles: Astronomer To Senior Editor For Nature
The AAS Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy and the AAS Employment Committee have compiled dozens of interviews highlighting the diversity of career trajectories available to astronomers. The interviews share advice and lessons...
- One Person?s Advice On The Two-body Problem
By Annika Peter, from the June 2013 Issue of Status: A Report on Women in Astronomy? My husband and I recently found a long-term solution to our two-body problem after seven years of hopscotching through job seasons. When we entered...
- Career Profiles: Astronomer To Consultant
The AAS Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy and the AAS Employment Committee have compiled dozens of interviews highlighting the diversity of career trajectories available to astronomers. The interviews share advice and lessons learned from...
- Thoughts On Work-life Balance
My subtitle is: How will academic institutions improve work-life balance? I'm thrilled that astronomers are having so much impact in highlighting the need for policies that make it easier for young people to begin careers and families in science and...
- Aaswomen For August 19, 2011
AAS Committee on the Status of Women Issue of August 19, 2011 eds. Joan Schmelz, Caroline Simpson, and Michele Montgomery This week's issues: 1. New CSWA Member2. How to Encourage More Girls to Enter Science? 3. L'Oreal USA Announces Recipients...