Jenny Furlong in New Q&A on Navigating Job Markets

Jenny Furlong, director of the GC's Office of Career Planning and Professional Development, was recently featured in a Chronicle of Higher Education interview about job searches outside of academia.

The interview, "Hedging Your Bets: The nuts and bolts of going on the academic and nonacademic job markets at the same time," explores the recent trend among Ph.D. candidates to pursue jobs in multiple spheres.
 
Changes within universities are making "a more natural path for Ph.D.s across fields to not have academe as their sole career focus," said Furlong (pictured). "Some disciplines are morphing and redefining their boundaries. Some new faculty hires hold appointments in more than one department while others don't hold a degree in the discipline of the department at all."
 
"Managing two different types of searches at one time (while working on research or teaching) is a lot to balance," Furlong noted. Her columns appear regularly in the 'Advice: Career Talk' section of the Chronicle of Higher Education.