Through this individual 45-min live coaching session with Dr. Mrim Boutla, you will explore your career and impact goals as well as make progress towards one of the following areas:
- GET CLEAR about your industry career goals, including:
- Clarifying and articulating your transferable PhD skills including
- Your research skills (e.g. qualitative and/or quantitative data collection and analysis, critical thinking)
- Your communication skills.
- Your project management skills.
- Your entrepreneurial mindset, emotional intelligence, and interpersonal effectiveness.
- Articulating how your work/life priorities fit within different sectors and organizational cultures (e.g. private sector, non-profits, government, multilateral organizations, how things get done, what kinds of colleagues you will have, how much autonomy and ability to innovate you will have, focus on innovation vs focus on compliance, continuous learning, mentoring opportunities, salary, location, career advancement).
- Exploring how to integrate or move beyond your research topic as you explore industries (e.g. tech and social media, life sciences, humanitarian aid, CPGs, manufacturing, aerospace, transportation, food security, women empowerment).
- Identifying visa options for foreign-born professionals needing employer sponsorship in the US or around the globe.
- Researching salaries and understanding how to navigate salary questions throughout your career development journey.
- Clarifying and articulating your transferable PhD skills including
- GET CONNECTED to your tribe of like-minded professionals, including:
- Optimizing your LinkedIn profile for industry jobs or non-research careers in academia.
- Increasing your credibility by learning from and networking with like-minded PhDs who have successfully made the transition to fulfilling industry jobs.
- Identifying, following, and engaging with employers interested in PhD talent via social media (e.g. LinkedIn, twitter).
- Uncovering career and job opportunities through the hidden job market of 80% of career opportunities before they get advertised on job boards.
- Leveraging LinkedIn learning to keep optimizing your career profile and increasing your professional credibility for PhD industry jobs.
- GET HIRED to compete for your opportunities of interest, including:
- Analyzing job postings to best position yourself as the candidate of choice.
- Translating your CV into an industry resume to showcase your credibility for specific opportunities.
- Crafting your cover letter to stand out as a credible candidate.
- Preparing for behavioral, technical, or case interviews for industry jobs.
- Keeping in touch with your references.
- Staying pleasantly persistent throughout your industry job search.
- Analyzing and negotiating job offers.
At the end of your coaching session, you will leave with greater insights about your career development strategy and how to best make progress towards exploring or securing a PhD industry job.
