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Success in Graduate School and Beyond
A Guide for STEM Students and Postdoctoral Fellows
Nana Lee (Author), Reinhart Reithmeier (Author)
9781487526511
Hardback, published 5 April 2024
344 pages, 23 b&w illustrations, 6 b&w figures, 4 b&w tables
23.6 x 15.5 x 1.8 cm, 0.6 kg
Success in Graduate School and Beyond is designed to empower graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in STEM with practical tools, tips, and skill development strategies to plan and create their dream career pathway. Intended as a professional development course book, this balanced, self-reflective guide to workplace readiness is organized into five sections that support graduate student development: self-reflection, wellness, skills, networking, and planning for future success. Written in a conversational style, this guidebook includes clear learning outcomes based on the authors’ successful graduate professional development course at the University of Toronto. Covering increasingly important career subjects such as mentorships, transferrable skill development, emotional intelligence, and EDI, this guidebook solves a skills gap and builds core competencies demanded from industries and academia. Interspersed personal accounts from the authors about key topics and seven "Alumni Career Profiles" describing various career trajectories work to encourage self-awareness and promote essential skill development, and networking proficiency. With this book, STEM students will be equipped with the abilities and tools to achieve successful in graduate school and beyond.
I INTRODUCTION
1. Why Graduate Professional Development (GPD)?
II SELF-RELECTION: READY, SET, GO
2. Getting the Most Out of Graduate School
3. Knowing Yourself
4. Choosing Your Supervisor and Project
5. Managing Expectations
6. Negotiation and Conflict Management
III WELLNESS: TAKING CARE OF YOURSELF
7. Integrating Life with Work
8. Wellness
IV SKILLS: LEARNING TO DO ACTIVITIES WELL
9. Developing Your Competency Skills
10. Communication and Leadership
11. Teaching, Supervising and Mentoring
12. Working with Integrity
13. Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
V NETWORKING: MEANINGFUL ENGAGEMENT WITH OTHERS
14. Marketing Your Brand: Professional Emails, Cover Letter, Résumé and Curriculum Vitae
15. Building Your Professional Network
16. Volunteering, Internships, and Entrepreneurship
VI PLANNING: SUCCESS BEYOND GRADUATE SCHOOL
17. Getting Ready: Strategic Career Planning and Design Thinking
18. A Great Postdoctoral Fellowship
19. Succeeding in Academia
20. Succeeding Outside Academia
21. Creating Your Science Career
VII CONCLUSION
22. Personal Reflections
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