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Complete LinkedIn Guide For PhDs
Isaiah Hankel
The LinkedIn tips & strategies within have helped PhDs from every background get hired into top industry careers.
20 Most Popular Industry Career Tracks For PhDs
Isaiah Hankel, PhD & Arunodoy Sur, PhD
Learn about the top 20 industry careers for PhDs (regardless of your academic background). In this eBook, you will gain insight into the most popular, highest-paying jobs for PhDs – all of which will allow you to do meaningful work AND get paid well for it.
Industry Resume Guide for PhDs
Isaiah Hankel, PhD
Learn how to craft the perfect industry resume to attract employers. In this eBook for PhDs, you will get access to proven resume templates, learn how to structure your bullet points, and discover which keywords industry employers want to see most on PhD resumes.
Career Training Programs
Cheeky Scientist Association
The Cheeky Scientist Association is the world’s largest PhD-only industry job search training platform and PhD-only industry job referral network.
Data Scientist Syndicate
Get access to experienced data scientists currently working in industry so that you can get hired as a data scientist.
Research & Development Society
Get access to PhDs at the world’s largest R&D companies in this advanced program so you can get hired into a top R&D position.
Technical Training Programs
Expert Microscopy
Get access to expert training in microscopy, including daily mentorship by microscopy experts across disciplines.
Expert Cytometry
Get access to expert training in flow cytometry, including real-time guidance by top flow cytometry scientists.
Expert Sequencing
Get access to expert training in next generation sequencing (NGS) by top NGS experts.
Top 10 List Of Alternative Careers For PhD Science Graduates
By: Arunodoy Sur, PhD
When choosing the next step in your career, be sure to consider not only the title and salary you want to have, but the lifestyle you want to live. PhDs should gain a thorough understanding of their non-academic career options. Otherwise, they will be forced by circumstances to take positions that are not in alignment with their long-term career goals. To help you avoid this fate, we’ve collated a list of the 10 hottest non-academic jobs today. Understanding which industry positions are on the rise will help you see what’s available to you outside of a traditional postdoc or professorship. This will help you get off and stay off the dead end career track you're currently on. Here are 10 of the hottest industry jobs for science PhDs.
Negotiate A Higher Starting Salary With These 5 Email Templates
By: Aditya Sharma, PhD
As a PhD who has spent many years in academia, it is possible to lose sight of your value. But, when you are transitioning from academia to industry, you must reconnect with your value in order to get the pay you deserve. The only way your future employer is going to see your value is if you communicate it to them. Once you know what your skills are worth, negotiate to get the salary to match. Sending the right type of email will help you secure a higher starting salary. Negotiation emails should be polite but direct. Here are 5 email templates, addressing various stages in the negotiation process, to help you reach your salary negotiation goal.
5 Types Of Departments In A Company's Organizational Structure PhDs Must Know
By: Karin Weigelt, Ph.D.
Getting hired into a successful industry team means recognizing the importance of the systems that operate within the industry company you will be working for. You must develop your business acumen so that you have a strong understanding of teamwork and a keen awareness of how each industry department works together to bring products to market. Being able to highlight your business acumen during networking events, informational interviews, and site visits is crucial to getting hired. Here are 5 more key industry departments PhD job candidates must understand.
Deepak Kumar, PhD
Advanced Application Engineer (Bioinformatics)
Agilent Technologies
First of all, the resume template that we get from Cheeky Scientist is absolutely amazing. The moment I did that change, I started getting results. I started getting calls from interviewers. Every third or fourth day, I had an interview.
Julie Goulet, PhD
Data Scientist
Ludwig-Maximilians Üniversität München
[Joining the Cheeky Scientist Association] helped me a lot to meet people. It was really good to meet people, to speak about our challenges. We had a meetup in Munich recently, five of us who had all already transitioned, so it was really interesting. I think it helps to get other points of views, to get the perspectives of others.
Bibhudatta Mishra, PhD
Clinical Trial Coordinator
Before coming to this field I didn't really know what an MSL was. The MSLA program was excellent because it's not just like any other program on the internet. It's a group of like-minded, positive-minded people, MSLs in big companies. The MSLA group is so supportive. If you have a question, just type it in and a hundred MSLA members will jump in.
Rhianna Laker, PhD
Scientist I
MedImmune
The biggest challenge for me to start with, was just to get people to notice me, basically. You look on LinkedIn and see all these job advertisements and don't know how to get your resume in front of the right people. That was really the first thing I needed help with, and once I joined the Cheeky Scientist Association and began learning the networking techniques, it really changed my whole job search.
After completing a few questions you will receive a personalized detailed review of 3 careers that we recommend for you. These are not the only careers available for you and there may be others that are more ideal for you. However, these 3 careers will provide an additional level of clarity for you as you continue your job search, and one or all of these careers may serve as an ideal target for you in your job search
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