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In any career transition, it’s important to keep in mind the work-life balance that you will (or won’t) have with your potential employer. In addition to your home life, work-life balance is associated with stress levels and the quality of the relationship that you have with your boss. While some work-life factors are self-determined and can be changed during the quest for it, many are directly influenced by workplace culture and policies.

An NPA Gender Summit session titled ‘Skills, Strategies, and Lessons on Postdoc Career Advancement’ was led by HERC Training and Development Director, Jessica Wise, and featured three speakers. The goals of the session, were for each attendee to think strategically about their spheres of influence and plan what their careers are going to look like, at the individual, community, and institutional levels.

Mentoring relationships are particularly important for job transitions. While it’s true that advisors may also provide some of these functions, according to Dr. Beronda Montgomery, the key difference between an advisor and a mentor is the specificity of the advice for you.

Below are four steps that you can use to craft a diversity statement. The first three steps will guide the incorporation of three key components to a compelling statement: your background, what drives your commitment to diversity, and how you demonstrate that commitment. The final step provides resources and suggestions to refine your statement for inclusion in your job packet.

Freewriting is a stream of consciousness writing warm-up that can also be applied to the drafting process.

This writing method, the method, is better described as a writing ritual that signals when it’s time to write, whether it be a grant proposal, manuscript, or recommendation letter

An athlete doesn’t sit on the couch then compete with cold muscles; they do a warm up first to prepare their muscles for strenuous activity. For effective scientific writing, the brain needs a warm up, too.

This is the beginning of a blog series that will explore and describe several methods and techniques (below) for drafting your scientific manuscript.

To prevent disorganized writing and non-essential research, use your central message and narrative for a solid prewriting strategy.

When it comes to a literature review for thesis and article writing, everyone has the same questions: Where do I start and when do I stop? Today, we’ll cover some tips to help answer these questions.