Category: Ph.D. to Industry
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Everything That Happened With My Toxic Former Advisor
I’ve mentioned my toxic former PI in some past blog posts and rather heavily on my Twitter. I wanted to write a post to get the whole story out there in case anyone was interested in how I ended up dealing with him! I also really wanted to let others who may be going through…
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The Only Skill From My Ph.D. That I Use In My Industry Job
So I was thinking about posting a list of skills I use in my job that I learned specifically during my Ph.D. But as I started writing out a list of those skills, I realized they all converged onto 1 “mega-skill” in particular. It’s “consolidating and communicating published information”. The overall goal is to familiarize…
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Teaching Outside of Academia
One thing I hear a lot of academics say when they tout the things they love about academia is that they enjoy teaching and that’s why they stay and don’t consider industry. Ummm…what? Hearing that makes me think they’re not aware of the plethora of job options that you can have in industry or non-ac…
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5 More Non-Labwork Jobs I Wish I Knew About During Grad School
It’s been about a month since my last post where I introduced 7 non-labwork industry jobs I wish I knew about during grad school. In that one, I talked about medical writer, field application scientist, medical science liaison, sales scientist, museum scientist, and others! I did want to mention a few more fields, or realms,…
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Ph.D. to Industry/Non-Ac Jobs Ultimate Resource List
This post contains all of the resources I’ve shared in my past blog posts. It’ll be for you to peruse and get what you need. If you want explanations, use the links in this post to read the original blog posts. You can also email me via the Contact page on this blog if you…
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3 Ways I Changed My Academic Mindset to Find Success in My Job Search
One thing I noticed during grad school was that a lot of academics and university programs treated non-ac, or industry jobs as an afterthought. So many faculty I knew in grad school seemed to have such an enthusiasm and energy towards the concept of students getting postdocs, being interested in running their own labs, and…
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How My Likes and Dislikes Led Me To My Industry Job
In 6 months, I went from defending my Ph.D., starting a postdoc in my Ph.D. lab, being extremely depressed because I was not enjoying the work at all, cutting off my toxic PI, voluntarily giving up authorship of my Ph.D. paper, and landing a pretty sweet industry job that’s fully remote. Aside from those few…
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7 Non-Labwork Industry Jobs I Wish I Knew About During Grad School
When I was in grad school, I didn’t know any of these jobs existed. I pretty much had no idea where to even start looking when I was considering jobs outside the university. I knew I didn’t want to stick around to become a professor or run a lab, and that I always wanted to…
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My Top 6 Ph.D. to Industry Job Interview Tips & Advice
I honestly didn’t find industry job interviews to be any more difficult or complicated compared to the resume and cover letter prep steps. For the most part, industry job interviews were no-fuss conversations. Like with the other steps in the job application process, if you actually understand the point of that step and perform reasonably…
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5 Ways to Find Amazing STEM Industry Jobs
I specifically remember that feeling of aimlessness thinking about jobs outside academia. I 100% believed people when they said that there were great opportunities out there for folks with Ph.D.s, and that I just had to find ones that worked for me. The problem was, I had no idea where to start or how to…