Essential Guide for Your PhD Career Transition

Your early guide to building your Post-PhD Career in Science and Engineering

Created by: Thomas Coughlin
Innovation Professor

What Will I Learn?

• What a PhD means today in the 21st century
• The PhD Career Landscape
• How to run a PhD Diagnostics Check and check the status of their PhD against other PhDs
• Learn how assess how competitive your PhD is and how to make it better
• Learn how to not only complete the qualifier, candidacy, and thesis, but also make them work for your resume and CV to help you later in your career
• Learn how to design a research project that creates a plan for the research paper
• Learn an optimal approach to writing a research paper
• Learn how to get the most from conferences
• Learn how to tell if your in a bad lab, environment, advisor, or if you have a bad project during your PhD
• How to get to know yourself during your PhD career transition
• Learn about the STEM Careers and which areas are jobs experiencing growth to go into
• Learn about the Healthcare field and career landscape
• Determine how to convert your CV into a resume
• Create a resume with our Resume Template
• Start transitioning your career with our Career Transition Checklist
• Network during your PhD and after to learn about jobs with our Networking Checklist, Cold Linkedin Email Template, and Cold Calling Sample Questions
• Know about the STEM careers to be able to properly assess what fits you best!

Requirements

• Just be yourself and come ready to be empowered!!!

Target audience

• Anyone interested in or undergoing a PhD (only practical concepts that you can use + we won't cover topics that are common sense).
• Any graduated PhDs in STEM looking for a Boost in their Job Hunt or Career Transition
• PhDs uncertain about their career