L. Maren Wood is a Ph.D. in history and co-founder and CEO of Beyond the Professoriate, a public-benefit company that works with individuals and universities, offering career services for graduate students and Ph.D.s.
Stories by This Author
Advice
Job candidates with the misfortune to be searching for tenure-track positions this year or next will need as many career options as they can get.
Advice
A new project seeks to measure the extent of the mental-health crisis not just in graduate school but beyond it, among early-career Ph.D.s.
Advice
Career transitions for Ph.D.s cannot be mapped, which is why the road is so difficult and so draining for so many.
The Review
Graduate programs should foster alumni networks and provide opportunities for students to articulate their skills.
Hiring
Tenure-track jobs in the field tend to go to scholars who have just earned, or are wrapping up, their Ph.D.s. Here’s a look at the data from Vitae’s JobTracker project.
Faculty
Some advisers say young scholars should expect to spend several years looking for tenure-track positions; others emphasize the need to strike quickly. Vitae’s JobTracker project tries to get a read on the reality.
First Person
The anxiety that many Ph.D. students feel about admitting their nonfaculty aspirations is justified.
Beyond the Ivory Tower
You, too, can join the ranks of the gainfully employed outside of academe. Here’s how.
The Ph.D. Placement Project
The Council of Graduate Schools should focus on questions like “Who are the stakeholders who need to be won over?,” writes L. Maren Wood.
The Ph.D. Placement Project
What exactly are they? And how can they help Ph.D.'s looking to leave academe? L. Maren Wood provides some answers.