Landing that job!
Transition to industry after completing your PhD. 🎓 ➡ 👩💼 Not everyone wants to stay in academia after completing their PhD.
Reasons are many:
🌳 Security/Stability
💶 Money
🧠 Interests
🚀 Ambitions & more...
That step may well feel like standing on the 10-meter diving platform. 🗼
🔷 Suddenly the pool looks kind of small.
❄ The water might be colder than expected.
💧 Is the water deep enough?
😰 Will it hurt?
To rise your confidence for this important and challenging step in your career, I talked to Elena Hoffer, co-founder of alma.me and PhD graduate from Karolinska Institute.
Elena shared her tips on :
💗 How you can figure out what you want.
💪 How you can figure out what you are good at and enjoy
🍾 How to increase your chances of being invited for a job interview… and landing your dream-job
🕸 The role of networking in shaping your career
Have fun listening and a great week ahead,
Miriam 💚
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!! Please mind that this episode was first published 26th of February 2024 when the podcast was called PhDtalk.
