4 reasons why every PhD should consider a career in the private sector By L. Maren Wood, PhD | Founder of Beyond the Professoriate I spend a lot of time each week on the phone advising graduate students and postdocs about jobs for PhDs outside of academia. From these conversations, and my research interviewing …
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3 Great Social Media Tips for Your Post-Academic Job Search What is the value of social media in a job search? Well, stop me if you’ve heard this one before: “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” You’ve surely come across this piece of advice. Well, regardless of what you think about it—and …
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LinkedIn for PhDs: 5 Reasons Why You Need It Now Show of hands: how many people routinely delete LinkedIn email invitations? Yup! Guilty. A few years ago, John Oliver did a bit (way back when he guest-hosted The Daily Show) on LinkedIn’s excessive email spamming habits: “What do you do, LinkedIn? You seem to have monetized irritating …
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5 Things Grad Students & Postdocs Should Do Right Now to Build Successful Academic Careers As a grad student or early career PhD, how can you build a successful academic career? The answer to this question might not be clear. When we enter graduate school, we usually have orientation programs and meetings with grad advisors …
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Walking Away From Academia When It Was Your Dream Job There are many blog posts written by people who decided to leave academia. With the tight academic job market and the broken and exploitative adjunct system, there are many people, like me, who leave higher education because of math: there are just not enough jobs …
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Dear PhDs: You do you I knew from the start of my PhD that I probably wasn’t going to end up an academic. Everywhere I turned in my MA program professors were saying to my cohort, “You’re probably not going to get a job! Turn back now!” I am so thankful for those warnings because …
From Journalism to Academia to Advertising to …? I worked as a journalist for six years, primarily writing about arts and culture. The last 18 months of that journalism career were spent on the arts beat in Prague, and they were fantastic. The main frustration with my writing that persisted, though, was increasing dissatisfaction with …
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Carry the Life of the Mind With You I’ve always had an independent streak, academically at least. I received my BA in Individualized Study from NYU and an MA and PhD in American Studies from George Washington University—both fields notorious for allowing students to chart their own paths. There were few requirements placed on my …
Your First Post-PhD Job (Probably) Won’t Be Your Last One of the main reasons I choose a non-faculty career was that I wanted stable employment. As a PhD, I saw first-hand the precarious nature of being an academic researcher and how it negatively impacted people’s lives. While I was a doing my PhD, a postdoc …
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Follow Where Your Career Takes You My current position is a combination between an academic research scientist, an industry product development scientist, a laboratory director, a medical science liaison, and a consultant. My job is to do novel research and product development to move cellular therapies forward. This position also involves building relationships with potential …
