For some people, academia is a calling, not just a career. “I couldn’t picture myself in any other setting; it seemed to fit,” says Karen Schindler, an assistant professor in the department of genetics at Rutgers University, New Jersey. But getting onto the tenure track wasn’t easy. From 2005 to 2011, Schindler worked on her postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, researching how errors occur in egg development. She was awarded two major grants from the National Institutes of Health and published five firstauthored papers. Looking for labs where she could continue her work, in 2009 she applied to 12 tenure-track job listings, but did not receive an interview invitation for any of them. In 2010, she scaled up her search, and applied to about 60 postings that year. She also contacted anyone she knew in tenured posts and asked them specifically what they were looking for so she could better tailor her applications. Her efforts paid off, and she was invited to eight tenuretrack interviews, four of which resulted in job offers. In January 2012, she chose Rutgers. “You hear time and time again how important it is to network, and I’m so glad I did it,” she says. “I realize that it was huge in helping me get as many interviews as I did".
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