PhD Professionals Beyond Faculty - Networking Career Stories

👋 PhDs working beyond the faculty track… we want to hear your networking story! ✔️ Did a career conversation help you transition out of academia? ✔️ Did an informational interview help you discover a role you didn’t know existed? ✔️ Did one connection, introduction, or “cold email” change the trajectory of your career? We are currently writing a book about how PhD-trained researchers use networking and career conversations to explore careers, navigate pivots, and successfully transition into non-faculty roles, and we’re looking for real stories from PhD professionals across industries and career stages. These are not perfectly polished stories... but real ones. Tell us the conversations that helped you gain key insights on the job hunt, the people who opened doors, those networking experiences that felt awkward at first… but ultimately changed your path. Was there a moment that helped you realize what you didn't want? WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! So, if networking played any role in your transition from your PhD or postdoc into a non-faculty career, we’d love to hear your story. The form takes about 5 minutes to complete: https://lnkd.in/gfHc_bG4 Please also consider sharing this with other PhD professionals who may have a story to contribute. Thank you for helping us create the kind of resource we wish more PhDs had access to earlier in their careers. — Ellen Dobson, PhD, GCDF & Jevin Lortie, Ph.D. #PhDcareers #CareerDevelopment #Networking #BeyondAcademia #Postdoc #ProfessionalDevelopment #STEMcareers