Moving on...job search
If you're like a lot of PhD students or postdocs, you might have a lot of questions as you near the end of your program or current position:
What career will be right for me?
Do I stay in academia or transition to a non-academic job?
And what kinds of non-academic jobs are even available to me?
Beyond the Professoriate
If these are questions you're wrestling with, Beyond the Prof's webinar series can help you get answers. Called "How to decide between an academic and non-academic career," this webinar series is designed to show PhD students and postdocs how to find their Optimal Career Pathway.
As a UMN employee and a Beyond the Prof member, you can watch the replay of this class for free, here: https://institutions.beyondprof.com/march-2023-webinar-series-week1/ on our PhD Career Training Platform. In that class, we discussed:
- How to decide what kind of career is right for you (5:43)
- Why non-academic employers care about skills (8:01)
- How to make an inventory of the marketable skills you've developed in graduate school (17:50)
Topics that will be covered in future classes are:
- W, 03/08: How to identify what kind(s) of work really motivate you
- W, 03/15: How to discover what the world will pay you to do
- W, 03/22: How to tell your PhD Career Transition story
- W, 03/29: Next steps after you've identified your Optimal Career Pathway
BioCareers
BioCareers enhances ISMMS’ professional development resources and provides job postings in the life sciences as well as a variety of career options available nationwide to PhDs and MDs. This can be a good source of job listings for positions in pharmaceutical research, museum-based research, and academia. Registration is required.
NIH
We’re looking for driven and inspired people to join our team. Discover your future at the NIH! See Current Openings.