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Goal-Setting Strategies for Scientific and Career Success
myIDP helps structure the process of setting and pursuing short-term goals as you move toward the fulfillment of your career aspirations -
Narrowing the Choices: What Career Path is Right for You?
To get the best possible start on your career, do your research, make a decision, and see where it takes you. -
Getting the Inside Scoop on Science Careers
An informational interview provides job-seeking scientists with an insider's view of a career path. -
Opportunities Come Through People
The goal of networking is to form and strengthen the relationships that are essential to the optimal conduct of science. -
Making Evidence-Based Career Decisions
myIDP helps you cut through hearsay and conjecture and base your career choices on solid data and professional experience. -
myIDP
myIDP is a free, Web-based career-planning tool that was created to help graduate students and postdocs in the sciences define and pursue their career goals -
Making Sense of Your Self-Assessment
Once you've thought hard about your skills, interests, and values, it's time to narrow the range of career options you ought to consider. -
What Do You Care About?
Analyzing your deeply held values is a crucial step in choosing a career in science. -
Interests
It may sound obvious, but when choosing a career path you need to think hard about what you like to do—and what you don't. -
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You Need a Game Plan
Introducing myIDP, the first comprehensive, online tool to help you choose and pursue a science career. -
Editorial: Planning Career Paths for Ph.D.s
By turning introspection into a structured exercise, myIDP allows science trainees to translate a vague source of anxiety into a working plan.
