Advice to help make sure you keep a good work-life balance.

Writing articles helps improve your writing style, teaches how to become an effective peer reviewer and builds leadership skills.

They are often hidden in plain sight.

This is a legitimate career option.

Building an online space to highlight your academic work will help you come job search time.

There are steps you can take to help combat it.

Why service should now be your number one priority.

How cultural intelligence helps students prepare for interactions with different cultures.

Tips on how to prepare the classroom for students from different cultures.

How to get your students to submit better assignments.

Express complex ideas clearly and elegantly.

Adding teaching experience will make you attractive to hiring committees.

April McNeil, a career educator at the University of Victoria, gives tips on what grad students can do to make themselves more attractive to both academic and non-academic employers before they finish their PhD.

It’s time we had “The Talk”.

How to make sites like LinkedIn and Twitter work for you.

Janni Aragon, a professor at the University of Victoria, speaks about the social media tools she uses in her classroom – and explains how other professors can do the same thing. Show/hide transcript What I would suggest if you are completely new to social media: choose one platform. Be it Reddit, Twitter, WordPress, Tumblr, whatever […]

Handling the transition to your sabbatical is a key to its success.

How to cultivate civility.

A University of New Brunswick study reveals the common characteristics of great grad students.

April McNeil, a career educator at the University of Victoria, describes how graduate students can prepare for a non-academic job search. Show/hide transcript I think what makes it really challenging for graduate students to make a decision about within or outside of the academy, is they have had no exposure to what’s available for them outside of the academy. […]