Career Magazine

A personal development plan can help you define and explore your goals and map out ways to turn them into reality.

I think people worry about their lack of policy experience coming out of graduate school, with no experience in policy and uncertain of the proper names for the three branches of the U.S. government.

[C]onsider, as the Higher Education Act nears reauthorization, new means of increasing science and technology training for people who may enter decision-making roles in the policy sector.

Although it is occasionally frustrating to think that I invested so much time in such a focused and now largely irrelevant domain, I know the skills I acquired during my Ph.D. have enabled me to get up to speed rapidly and be productive during my policy fellowships.

In all likelihood, a fellowship exists in an area that suits you.

I think it is a common misperception that Ph.D. programs prepare scientists only for lab-based research.