{"id":29,"date":"2014-09-24T01:48:55","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T01:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gradguide\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2015-10-29T16:50:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T16:50:54","slug":"careers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gradguide\/careers\/","title":{"rendered":"Careers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People with Ph.D.s in biology do <a title=\"Where do Biology PhDs end up?\" href=\"http:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gradguide\/2014\/11\/12\/where-do-biology-phds-end-up\/\">many different things<\/a>, and there is no goal that every Ph.D. be a professor someday. Figuring out what you want to do, and what <a title=\"Transferrable Skills\" href=\"http:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gradguide\/2014\/11\/12\/transferrable-skills\/\">skills <\/a>you need to develop to attain that goal, is a continuous part of the graduate school process.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Helpful Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create an <a title=\"MyIDP\" href=\"http:\/\/sciencecareers.sciencemag.org\/career_magazine\/previous_issues\/articles\/2012_09_07\/caredit.a1200100\" target=\"_blank\">Individual Development Plan<\/a> to guide your career choices. This is a tool specifically for advanced graduate students and early stage postdocs in the sciences.<\/li>\n<li>PubChase: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pubchase.com\/career\/ask\" target=\"_blank\">Career Advice<\/a> forum allows readers to send in anonymous questions to be answered by a diverse panel of scientists in academics, industry and elsewhere.<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/anothersb.blogspot.com\/2014\/08\/phd-is-perfect-for-startup.html\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a> discussing how PhD training is useful for non-academic ventures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People with Ph.D.s in biology do many different things, and there is no goal that every Ph.D. be a professor someday. Figuring out what you want to do, and what skills you need to develop to attain that goal, is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gradguide\/careers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1479,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"sidebar-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gradguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gradguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gradguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gradguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1479"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gradguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gradguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gradguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gradguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}