Graduate Career & Professional Development Reading

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Miss or match? The impact of PhD training on job market satisfaction

Job satisfaction is vital to being productive and to contribute to society. This paper adds to our current understanding of the job market f

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https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/fee.1727

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https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/fee.1727

#scicomm #sciencewriting

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Embedding professional development within the curriculum of graduate programs: An impact survey from biomedical departments in a faculty of

Although the career pathways of biomedical PhDs are increasingly diverse, graduate education continues to rely upon an apprenticeship model,

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Casner-Lotto, "Are They Really Ready to Work? Are They Really Ready to Work? Employers' Perspectives on the Basic Knowledge and Applied Skills of New Entrants to the 21st Century U.S. Workforce"

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CGS Understanding PhD Career Pathways Report 2025

In collaboration, The Conference Board, Corporate Voices for Working Families, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and the Society for

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Embedding professional development within the curriculum of graduate programs: An impact survey from biomedical departments in a faculty of medicine

U Toronto study

Nana Lee

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Development and Assessment of a Sustainable PhD Internship Program Supporting Diverse Biomedical Career Outcomes

UNC NIH BEST internship study

Patrick Brandt and Beka Layton

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Understanding and Supporting PhD Careers: A Resource for Universities

2025 CGS Report

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DEI Defense Coalition

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https://www.bushcenter.org/publications/engines-of-opportunity

Engines of Opportunity: Bush Center report on economic and innovation impact of educational and medical institutions from March 2024

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Research Culture: Highlighting the positive aspects of being a PhD student

Articles about doing a PhD tend to focus on the difficulties faced by research students: here we argue that the scientific community should

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‘The tipping point is coming’: Unprecedented exodus of young life scientists is shaking up academia

Faculty are struggling to hire postdocs, delaying research projects and pressuring universities to consider improving salaries and benefits as endowments are shrinking.

#STEM #withaphd #postdocs

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Report on negotiations for academic jobs, drawing from stories from over 300 faculty members.

#salary #academicjobs #withaphd

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Shoba Subramanian's article

#STEM #PhD #postdoc #networking #conferences

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State of the Humanities 2022: From Graduate Education to the Workforce

A wide-ranging new report on the state of graduate education in the humanities details some of the key challenges facing the field, as well as the opportunities for those who earn master’s and doctoral degrees in the humanities.

#humanities #PhD

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PhD-trained biomedical scientists are moving into an increasingly diverse variety of careers within the sciences. However, graduate and postdoctoral training programs have historically focused on academic career preparation, and have not sufficiently ...

#STEM #biomedical #PhD