Graduate Students & Postdocs at Rice University: Career Info

Wildavsky shares the most vital lessons of what he calls the career arts, which include cultivating a mix of broad and targeted skills, taking advantage of employer-funded education benefits, and preparing for the world as it is, not as you wish it could be. He explains why college remains the gold standard of credentials, and presents the most promising high-quality supplements and alternatives to college that can help learners combine general and job-specific skills. He shows how building social capital is also critical to success, particularly for disadvantaged students.

Use this guidebook to create an education master class that suits your needs, interests, and schedule. Explore the perspectives and research fields alone or with your collaborative team members to generate new ideas and leverage collective teacher efficacy.

HBR culled 10 of their best articles on successfully managing your career.

Practical and actionable advice for professionals of color seeking concrete strategies to help them move up the corporate ladder.

Please Sit Over There teaches Black women the career skills they need to navigate an uneven playing field and achieve long-lasting professional success.

A comprehensive playbook to help women with job searches, career transitions, and professional advancements.

In One Bold Move a Day, Hocking shows how a single, measurable act each day provides the daily challenge that will help you truly grow. With insight gleaned from years in multi-billion-dollar nonprofits and running a business to support women leaders, Hocking offers actionable advice and useful tools to facilitate your personal journey.

This book is designed to help graduate students and early career professionals develop skills to effectively work through the research process. Chapters cover the essential character traits and skills that are necessary to become an effective researcher, walk through the main steps for completing a research project from start to finish, and discuss considerations when building a career and research program.

Baker-Doyle shows how the critical network literacy (CNL) framework overlays critical theory, multiliteracies theory, and social network theory in a way that encourages critical reflection and collaboration among participants. She draws from sources including empirical studies of teacher educators and teacher activists, meta-analytical studies of social network research in education, and professional experience with collective organizing efforts, to detail the many benefits of cultivating CNL in educational spaces.

ACCORD, a model comprising six essential elements that underpin personal effectiveness, is provided here to assist with developing those workplace attributes that drive sustainable success. These elements encompass Agility, Confidence, Collaboration, Optimism, Resilience, and Determination. Drawing upon them, this book provides expert advice, tips, and tools for flourishing in the face of tumultuous times.

This timely and practice-driven guide reveals 7 practices you can use to thrive as you rise to positions of greater responsibility, risk, and reward--and empower others along the way. Powered by the latest research, boots-on-the-ground experience, and advice from 24 of the world's most successful leaders, the book captures seven practices that help you understand and leverage your unique personal powers so you can thrive in leadership.