Oh, the Places You’ll Go with Your PhD! KaarenJanssenRichardSeverCareer Options for Biomedical Scientists2015Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory PressCold Spring Harbor, NY, USA232 pp. $45.00

‘‘It’s the kind of book I wish I’d had when I was a student!’’ Apparently, that thought prompted at least one of the successful professionals who wrote for Career Options for Biomedical Scientists to put together a contribution. Having read the entire book, I have to say I agree. If you’re a young, or even not so young, scientist looking for some insight into where a biomedical degree can lead, you’ll find a lot to interest you here. When Iwasa student,manymoons ago, there was very little discussion of career paths away from academia, and most of my colleagues were quite surprised that anyone would want to think about doing anything other than run a lab. Times have changed, and with the very clear realization that there are many more students and postdocs working in science than available tenured faculty positions, outlooks are shifting. Institutions are growing to understand that the best way for them to serve their graduate student and postdoc communities is to provide support for learning about a broad range of options and thinking about what will be the best fit for future careers. I interview quite a lot ofpeople in thecourseofmycurrent job, and I have noticed that it’s now quite common for candidates to highlight how information from career fairs or presentations at their institutions helped shape their choice about what type of work to pursue. Some institutions are evenactively trackingoutcomes;Stanford, for example, recently released the results of a survey of PhD program graduates that showedclearly thebroad rangeofprofessional paths that they took after leaving (seehttp://stanford.io/1VZBklf). A career in academia is great in many ways, but it’s not for everyone, and institutions,mentors, andcolleagueswhohaven’t come to terms with that yet are behind the curve. Of course, one place that someone in search of information about career options can turn to is the Internet. There