Andrew Green, PhD

GETTING THE MOST OUT OF BEYOND ACADEMIA

THREE PART SERIES

• March 13 - I don’t want to be my advisor…

• March 29 - How to act on interests piqued by today’s event

• April 3 - Translating your credentials into an effective resume & cover letter

• If you’d like copies of today’s slides

YOU HEAR AN INTERESTING SPEAKER

• How do I follow up?

• Learn more about the field or profession

• Find other professionals working in that area (preferably with a PhD)

• Find the watering hole

• Reach out for informational interviews

• No decisions based on an n=1

Learn more about the field or profession

• ScienceCareers.org

• Versatile PhD

• Callisto – Vault Reports

• How many concentric circles?

SCIENCECAREERS.ORG

VERSATILE PHD VIA VSPA.BERKELEY.EDU

Find other professionals working in that area (preferably with a PhD)

• Professional Societies (STC)

• Scholarly meetings

• Leveraging LinkedIn (dl)

LINKEDIN

• How many of you have a LinkedIn account?

• The power of Groups and Searches

THE POWER OF LINKEDIN GROUPS (30K)

UC BERKELEY ALUMNI GROUP

NON-ALUMNI GROUPS

BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE A CAREER COUNSELOR (28)

WHAT DO I DO NOW?• Join the Group

• Monitor discussions

• Post a question or initiate a new discussion

• Search the “Jobs” tab

• Connect with an individual

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ADVANCED SEARCH

SO I TALKED TO DAVID, AND GRANT WRITING

FILTER THE SEARCH – PHD/BAY AREA

SCROLL DOWN

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PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

PAST PANELIST

HER TRANSITION

RESEARCH COMPANIES

OTHER SOURCES OF CONTACTS

• Lab mates, former Berkeley grad students, Faculty & SAOs

• Make friends with a Postdoc

• Undergrad Career Centers, Alumni Associations, and Mentors

• Friends from Undergrad Years (not all of them went to Med School)

INFORMATIONAL INTERVIEWS

• What they are?

• Why do them

• What kinds of questions to ask

• What do you do?

• How did you get there?

• What skills did you have?

• Ecosystem

• Names of 2-3 other people?

• Follow up

HOW DOES THIS WORK?

• I got a call on Monday from Gail in Rhode Island…

• Dear Andrew,

• Thank you very much for your time and very helpful advice yesterday!

• This morning I took another look at my linkedin connections and clicked through to the profiles of some connections that I wanted to make. One of the primary people in whom I was interested (Ex. Dir. of a foundation for education) must have seen that I clicked his profile because HE then invited me to connect this afternoon ... I shot him an email using your suggestion to invite him to meet for coffee so that I could ask him for advice.

THINK YOU DON’T KNOW ANYONE?

UC Berkeley Alumni Group (36,821) w/PhD w/o PhD

Psychology 150 500+

Neurosceince 86 364

Cog Sci 49 482

Linguistics 36 363

Vision Science 71 500+

ABOUT 14 YEARS AGO…

• I was hosting my first panel presentation

• LinkedIn makes that process infinitely easier and more efficient (dl)

• There’s a world of opportunity and people willing to help you

• Questions?