It’s the week of Thanksgiving.-
Top Skills Employers Are Looking for in 2025: Problem-Solving, Teamwork, and Communication -
Navigating Disclosures and Workplace Accommodation/Adjustment Requests -
The Rise in ADHD Diagnoses in Young Professional Women
FROM THE ARCHIVE - Industry vs. Academia: Which is Right for You?
This From the Archive post revisits a decision many individuals struggle with.
Career Options Series: Public Health
OITE’s new Career Options Series will give you a snapshot overview of different career paths. The goal of this blog series is to help you explore a variety of different options by connecting you to new resources. A large part of making a good career decision is done by gathering information about that field. We encourage you to follow up this online research by conducting informational interviews with individuals in each field.
NIH Alumni: Where are they now? Biologist
Job Title & Company: Biologist, FDA, Center for Devices and Radiological Health
Location: White Oak, MD
How long you’ve been in your current job: 1 year
Postdoc Advisor, IC: Dr. Maria Morasso, NIAMS
Decision-Making Activity -- Prioritizing Grid
Richard Bolles, author of What Color Is Your Parachute?, developed a prioritization grid to help individuals make career decisions.
Is Grit the Key to Success?
Dr. Angela Lee Duckworth is a psychologist and a 2013 recipient of the MacArhthur Fellowship. Her work focuses on traits that predict achievement. In order to study this, she went to many different places and studied predictors of success in different contexts.
Maximizers – Doing Better but Feeling Worse
Career decision making is something that everyone struggles with at some point; in a recent blog post, we wrote about this struggle, which can lead to a tendency to drift into decisions. Turns out, there are two basic decision-making styles. Which one are you -- a maximizer or a satisficer? Maximizers tend to take their time and don’t feel comfortable choosing until they feel they have explored every option and have chosen the absolute best.
Guide to Cover Letters
Your cover letter is often the first document an employer sees. It serves not only as an introduction to your résumé or CV but to you and your writing style.Are You Drifting Into Decisions?
People are faced with choices and decisions every day — some are inconsequential and some are life-changing. Maybe you are trying to decide whether or not you should go to graduate school or whether or not you should take that job you were offered. Try to think for a moment about the last big decision you had to make. How did you approach that decision? Were you forced to actively choose or did you drift into that decision?
PhD in Depression?
According to data from a report out of UC Berkeley, almost half of STEM PhDs are depressed. Additionally, these graduate students reported a lack of optimism in regards to their future career paths.