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Now, for all graduate students and PhDs, regardless of your current career path. For $9.99/month, join a supportive and encouraging community of graduate students and PhDs. Have engaging conversations and build relationships with like-minded people. Access resources to help your job search including webinars, live discussions, and on-demand videos.

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Check-out our upcoming events. We host monthly webinars featuring career advice by PhDs, for PhDs. Our webinars teach members how to successfully find careers in academia and beyond the professoriate.

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Advice from PhDs working beyond the professoriate on how you can find your next-great career. Transition Q&As profile PhDs who have successfully transitioned from academia. Recaps of our Community events allow readers to catch up on what they’ve missed.

Beyond the Professoriate helped me understand how others, who left academia, navigated their paths. It also provided concrete, extremely useful advice for the postac job search. The biggest thing it has done for me is to make me feel more confident about my skills and abilities, and show me that I don't have to be afraid of what comes next. In fact, it has shown me how exciting and fun this whole thing can be, instead of terrifying!

I love the fact that your panelists discussed a wide range of employment opportunities and career paths in the United States as well as Canada. And I would highly recommend this for ALL PhD students who are considering career options outside of academia.

These sessions confirmed things I was doing correctly and provided lots of new ideas to expand my ability to successfully navigate the job market outside of academia. Each speaker brought a different perspective and their willingness to be candid about their own stories made these sessions very down to earth and the speakers' stories easy to relate to.

I walked away from this conference feeling both hopeful about future prospects and much more confident about my ability to succeed outside of academia.

Thank you Jen, Maren and the entire Beyond Prof team for turning my non-faculty job search upside down, for the better! I move forward from the conference feeling connected, empowered, and very well-equipped to explore different career options outside of academia.

I am glad that Beyond the Professoriate exists and that you do the kind of work you are doing. It is super useful and much needed.

For Institutions

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e-Learning Platform

Students access on-demand videos to explore career options and learn strategies for career success beyond the professoriate. Available to universities & academic professional associations as an annual subscription.

On Campus

Bring co-founders Jennifer Polk, PhD, and L. Maren Wood, PhD, to your campus. We provide a range of workshops on exploring career options and preparing for career success beyond the professoriate.

For Faculty & Staff

Professional Development Seminars

Our Research & Innovation series features presentations by faculty, senior leadership and administrators, as well as researchers from academic professional associations. Presenters share their research about career pathways for PhDs, and discuss innovative programs on their campuses that support graduate student career diversity.

About Beyond the Professoriate

A mission-driven organization that provides career education and professional development for graduate students and PhDs in humanities, social sciences and STEM disciplines who are interested in non-faculty career options. We provide services to individuals, and partner with institutions to support their efforts in empowering students and postdocs.

Our content features PhDs with successful non-academic careers who share their unique expertise and experiences to support graduate students in their job search and future employment. Beyond the Professoriate is career advice by PhDs, for PhDs.

Co-founders Jennifer Polk, PhD (history, University of Toronto), and L. Maren Wood, PhD (history, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), possess first-hand knowledge of the challenges PhDs encounter when they leave academia for careers beyond the professoriate. Maren and Jen have dedicated their careers to helping graduate students and PhDs find success outside of academia.

Beyond the Professoriate runs a blog series for University Affairs and publishes in Inside Higher Ed.

Connect with Jen and Maren on Twitter and LinkedIn, and join them in the Beyond the Professoriate Community.

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