Seizing the Lessons From ‘Carpe Careers’

Adaptability is key: Here’s how grad students, postdocs and career professionals can get the most out of “Carpe Careers” in the year ahead.

"Perhaps more than ever, we are grateful to the career and professional development experts who wrote for “Carpe Careers” last year. Throughout these tumultuous times, they continued to share creative best practices and strategies for advising graduate students and postdocs and for supporting themselves and the critical work that they do.

As we begin a new year, we want to reflect on key themes from the dozens of “Carpe Careers” publications of 2025 and offer suggestions for how readers can implement some of the lessons learned from them in 2026."

For the full article, visit: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/carpe-careers/2026/01/12/seizing-lessons-carpe-careers-opinion