Survival Guides & Career Resources

Survival Guides:

“To Survive and Flourish: A Survival Guide for Graduate Women at UCSB”
http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/education/graduate/survivalguidewomen.pdf
Written by graduate women at UCSB, hardcopies are also available free at the Women's Center, Graduate Student Association, and MultiCultural Center

“How to be a Good Graduate Student” by Marie desJardins http://www.cs.indiana.edu/how.2b/how.2b.html

“So Long and Thanks for the PhD!” Grad student survival guide by Computer Science Prof. Ron Azuma http://www.cs.unc.edu/~azuma/hitch4.html

“Some Modest Advice for Grad Students” by Stephen Stearns, EEMB professor http://www.eeb.yale.edu/stearns/advice.htm

Career Resources & Professional Development:

Chronicle of Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/
Job listings, articles about careers in academia, how-to-do almost anything for your career information...

Sloan Career Cornerstone Center
http://www.careercornerstone.org/
Explore degree fields, comprehensive education, salaries, networking, job hunting, career planning resources, and personal interviews with hundreds of people who offer candid, "day in the life" insight into their own diverse careers.

Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty
http://www.hhmi.org/resources/labmanagement/index.html
Scientific management training for early-career researchers

Postdoctoral Services website at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
http://www.scripps.edu/services/postdocs/

Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide
http://www.womendontask.com/
*See especially "Interesting Statistics."

American Association of University Women's Action Network
http://capwiz.com/aauw/mlm/
Receive e-mail alerts, usually just once per week, telling you how to take action on an AAUW priority issue and make a difference for women and girls.