{"id":416,"date":"2015-10-01T14:27:08","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T19:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/dsa\/?page_id=416"},"modified":"2015-10-01T14:27:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T19:27:08","slug":"thinking-through-career-paths","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/dsa\/guides-for-sci-phd-students\/thinking-through-career-paths\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Through Career Paths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ph.D. program is a journey that offers many different career paths- have you thought about where you would like to be after you complete your Ph.D.?<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Hester Coan can\u00a0meet with Ph.D. students individually or in group sessions to discuss potential career paths.\u00a0 Her presentation slides from the Ph.D. colloquium (9\/25\/2015) provide an excellent overview of resources for everyone in the doctoral program:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/dsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2015\/10\/Thinking-through-Career-Paths-PhD.pptx\">Career Paths Guide Powerpoint Slides (.pptx file)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/dsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2015\/10\/Thinking-through-Career-Paths-PhD.pdf\">PDF Version of Career Paths Guide (.pdf file)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>University Career Services is also ready to help- please contact Toi Tyson at UCS for <a href=\"http:\/\/careers.rutgers.edu\/section.cfm?section_id=15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Graduate Student Resources<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please also note that there are faculty positions listed on the new <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/careers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Career Services at SC&amp;I<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Creating Effective Cover Letters and CVs<\/h2>\n<p>There are many resources available to help Ph.D. students create effective cover letters and CVs for the job hunt, whether it is for academic or industry positions.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Hester Coan has compiled a useful set of documents to help guide Ph.D. students (presented during the Ph.D. colloquium on 2\/12\/2016):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/dsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2015\/10\/jobhuntpresentation.zip\">Download the entire set of documents as a .zip file (12 documents, 4.7MB)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Academic Job Hunt<\/h2>\n<p>Dr.\u00a0Katherine Ognyanova presented on the academic job hunt during the Ph.D. colloquium (2\/5\/2016), providing a faculty member&#8217;s perspective on a successful academic job hunt.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/dsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2015\/10\/SCI-Colloquium-Job-Hunt-2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Academic Job Hunt Guide (.pdf file)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ph.D. program is a journey that offers many different career paths- have you thought about where you would like to be after you complete your Ph.D.? Dr. Hester Coan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":422,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-416","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/dsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/dsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/dsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/dsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/dsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/dsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/416\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/dsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/dsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}