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Category: Grad School Tips
The One-Minute Pitch
The One-Minute Pitch is about storytelling, to use stories to communicate your skills, values, and mindset to a potential employer. This blog explains how to construct the One-Minute Pitch.
Managing Time – The 168 Hours Experiment
Did you know that there were 168 hours in a week? I didn’t until I read Laura Vanderkam’s book ‘168 Hours.’ That doesn’t sound like a lot does it?! But Vanderkam points out that it […]
How to Focus at Work and Avoid Distractions – The Conscious Choice Method™
In this post, I share one of the most effective time management strategies that I have designed using the 168 hours experiment,modified from that designed by Laura Vanderkam. Read on if you’d like to learn how to increase focus and improve productivity at work.
Tips to Successfully Work from Home (Yes, even when you are a grad student and work from home mom!)
Having children around is not the most conducive to increasing your working from home productivity. But it can be done. This post pulls together a few tips for working from home successfully even when you have small children around.
How to Get a Fellowship for PhD or Grant for Grad School (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this post, I laid out two important aspects of how to write a successful fellowship/grant proposal and the nitty-gritty details of what goes into a kickass proposal. So read part uno […]
How to Get a Fellowship: Tips to Write a Kickass Proposal
Writing fellowship/grant proposals and putting together applications for these can be both time-consuming and emotionally taxing. It’s a long process, success rates for the competitive ones are anywhere between 5-7%, and you have to make […]
How to Get a Fellowship: Tips to Write a Kickass Proposal (Part 1)
Writing fellowship/grant proposals and putting together applications for these can be both time-consuming and emotionally taxing. It’s a long process, success rates for the competitive ones are anywhere between 5-7%, and you have to make […]
The Productive PhD Ninja Blog 