Professional Development for Doctoral Students & PhDs
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Access the information you need to confidently launch a career in or beyond the professoriate.
Access the information you need to confidently launch a career in or beyond the professoriate.
Beyond the Professoriate’s professional development training platform for graduate students and PhDs that helps them successfully transition into academic or nonacademic career paths.
From career exploration, to writing application materials, to interviewing and hiring — you will find self-paced courses to walk you through each stage of an academic or nonacademic job search.
Attend exclusive webinars hosted by Beyond the Professoriate to learn the most updated information on the job market.
Access interviews with PhDs from your academic discipline to help you get the perspective you need to find a nonacademic job you enjoy.
Gain the skills, knowledge, and strategies you need to confidently apply for jobs in academia or beyond.
Our research shows that PhDs move through four stages during their career transition. Beyond the Professoriate’s curriculum is designed to move you through the stages with strategy and purpose. By completing the courses in order, you will learn the proven process used by hundreds of PhDs to successfully launch nonacademic careers.
In stage one, you will identify your Optimal Career Pathway™ and make a plan for your professional job search by completing the course Know Your Options.
In stage two, you will evaluate possible careers that align with skills, interests, and values and learn proven job search strategies by completing the course Evaluate Your Opportunities.
In stage 3, you will choose what you’d like to try next in your career and implement a proven job search focused on securing an opportunity in one career field.
Are you wondering what you can do with your degree? The career exploration video resource library features interviews with over 150 PhDs. It is designed to help you understand the career transition process, and how PhDs build meaningful careers.
Today’s academic job market is more competitive than ever. These courses will help you build your career and prepare application documents so that you can apply for faculty jobs with confidence.
Navigate your career as a graduate student and postdoc by building habits for career success. Topics include writing strategies, time management, and networking.
Beyond the Professoriate’s mission is to empower PhDs to build impactful careers and engaged lives, wherever smart people are needed. Our team knows first-hand the challenges PhDs encounter when they leave academia for careers beyond the professoriate. Each of our team members has a PhD, and our founder, L. Maren Wood has dedicated her career to helping graduate students and PhDs find success outside of academia. Learn more about our team.
Our on-boarding quiz helps students locate resources related to their career of interest.
By completing 3-5 questions, our tool suggests a lesson students can complete to learn foundational skills and job search strategies for career success.
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Free monthly events hosted by the Beyond the Professoriate team are designed to help students recognize the challenges graduate students and PhD encounter during a career transition, and how the research-informed curriculum in the platform can help them prepare for a successful job search.
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Based on hundreds of hours of research, we’ve identified specific stages that every PhD must go through when completing their degree and considering nonacademic job options.
The curriculum in Beyond Prof's training platform is designed to move students through the stages with strategy and purpose.
Students can take our free assessment tool to learn where they are at in the 4 stages, and which course they should complete.
Sample the curriculum available to students in Beyond Prof's training platform by clicking an image with a blue border. You'll navigate to the video lesson.
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