Resources for Departments

Our research informed programming supports grad students, postdocs, PhDs, and faculty interested in non-faculty careers.

Free Monthly Webinars

In a recent survey, we learned that 67% of graduate students and PhDs feel they lack the professional development they need for non-academic jobs.

Our free monthly webinars are designed to help students learn proven job search strategies. These workshops are led by Dr. Maren Wood, and on occasion, include guest presenters.

In 2020, 15,000 PhDs from over 300 universities attended our free programming. Webinars are appropriate for graduate students and PhDs from all academic disciplines.

Departments are welcome to share our free events with students and postdocs. To receive marketing materials, please email events@beyondprof.com

Workshops

With over 7 years of experience mentoring and advising graduate students and PhDs, Dr. L. Maren Wood is the ideal keynote speaker for your on-campus event. Her presentations combine research, stories, strategy, to help your students prepare for non-academic careers, and are delivered with humor and empathy.

Annual Online Career Conference

For the past 7 years, Beyond Prof has hosted an online career conference for PhDs. The program features how-to seminars on job searching, and career advice by PhDs, for PhDs. Held the first two Saturdays in May. Departments receive 20% off the purchase of 10 or more tickets.

Professional Job Search Courses

Looking for self-paced learning for your graduate students? In this course series, students will learn what it takes to launch a non-faculty career. Discounts available for 10 or more course purchases. There are two courses available: Know Your Options and Evaluate Your Best Opportunity.

Academic Job Search Courses

Help your graduate students prepare for the academic job market in your academic job. Our five-unit self-paced course is designed to help graduate students and PhDs apply for faculty jobs. Seminars are taught by leading specialists from top universities across North America.

What people are saying about Beyond Prof programming

This conference has truly provided a sense of hope during my application process during COVID-19. It has allowed me to refine the tools I already had and strengthened my job application materials. The strategies have really given me a leg up in the applications. For example, I have received many interviews as a result of informational interviews, better cover letters, and better resumes tailored to the roles I applied to. I plan to continue to implement these tools throughout my career.

I’d been in transition for years--first to leave the professoriate and then to join the corporate world--before joining Beyond the Professoriate, with little success. What I appreciate the most about BP is the community of individuals who are at different stages of their academic careers working toward the same goal and supporting one another. Knowing you are not alone in a difficult transition is empowering, and BP is a friendly space to get that much needed support, both practical and emotional.

This conference told me everything about job-searching that I had hoped my advisor would be able to tell me when I asked her!

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.

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.