Mentoring

Mentoring is one format of our work. I give direct advice grounded in my background and in the experience of people who have worked closely with me. The issues have already been faced and solved in practice.

• Find and fix skill gaps

• PhD demands and outcomes

• Prestige, stability, freedom, pay

• International life across cultures

• Academic skills into marketable skills

• Academic and corporate career paths

• Choose field, advisor, and research group

• Self-evaluation without external validation

• Brainstorm and stress-test ideas with realism

• Academia from the inside: BSc, MSc, PhD, postdoc

• Hiring, selection, and evaluation beyond universities

• Sustained work on applications and research statements

• Independence, research pressure, publications, networking

For younger folks, occasionally, and not as standalone tasks.

• CV and LinkedIn

• (De)briefing for interviews, rehearsal, presentation

• Flesh out a profile with relevant, positive and verifiable facts about you

• Profile extraction from self-study, projects, competitions, exchange programs, hobbies, sports, volunteering