Strategies for Success: Landing Your First Academic Position and Navigating the Early Years—A Report from the American Society of Preventive Oncology's Early Career Investigator Special Interest Group

Abstract

As part of the 2019 American Society of Preventative Oncology (ASPO) annual meeting, the Early Career Investigator Special Interest Group organized a session entitled “Strategies for Success: Landing Your First Academic Position and Navigating the Early Years.”* This session was designed to provide senior doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows with strategies for preparing successful faculty job applications. Furthermore, strategies and best practices to help guide early career faculty through the initial years of their academic positions were also discussed. This report summarizes the main themes of the session, including advice and recommendations from the panelists.