
Develop a complete roadmap for your PhD career transition, diagnose your strengths with worksheets, explore career ideas, and master networking with a lifetime-access checklist for academia or industry.
Discover how a PhD signals resourcefulness, initiative, and self-sufficiency beyond subject mastery, enabling roles in research, writing, entrepreneurship, and as an industry interpreter.
Assess your PhD progress by diagnosing three core components: project, advisor, and environment, using our diagnostics checklist to determine readiness for a postdoc, a professor position, or an industry role.
Map your PhD path with a Myers-Briggs assessment and an individual development plan to reveal careers from medical writing to grants writing and beyond.
Edge your PhD journey in Europe by turning qualifiers and candidacy into strategic progress, crafting a review paper and planning grant writing with preplanned figures.
Go to conferences to test your subject knowledge, engage in valuable conversations, and boost networking through podium presentations; learn to build a poster that tells a three-figure story.
Differentiate your PhD by showcasing time-based achievements and external experiences like fellowships, co-ops, reviews, conferences, and mock grant work to stand out in job interviews.
Explore diverse PhD pathways in stem, from academia and postdocs to pharma, startups, and venture capital, with diagnostics, networking, tech transfer, and medical affairs guiding career choices.
Explore government careers from CIA and FBI to NIH and DoD, with epidemiologists, scientists, and writers; contract work offers security and a clear ladder, but rigid projects and limited rewards.
Explore careers in academic commercialization and technology transfer, including licensing and industrial liaison roles. Learn to move research through valley of death to customer-ready products via university tech transfer offices.
Explore PhD careers in grants across universities, nonprofits, and government agencies, from grants management to reviewers who decide funding, with stable, team-oriented roles, growth potential, and turnover realities.
Explore entry-level journal editor roles in publishing, with a stable 8-to-6 schedule, growth into managing editors, and the chance to develop research, technical, writing, and editing expertise.
PhD careers in startups let you wear roles from scientist to Chief Scientific Officer, gain exposure and growth while balancing lower pay with equity vesting over three to four years.
Discover how venture capital uses technical research to assess startup technology for funding and explore roles such as marketing analyst, associate analyst, and venture analyst.
Learn about equity research in biotech and healthcare, reviewing 25 NYSE companies, producing buy or sell reports, and building financial modelling and securities essentials exam prep for an associate role.
Explore diverse PhD career paths in the pharmaceutical space, including medical affairs, R&D, business development, sales, and medical science liaison, with strategies to break into key US hotbeds.
Explore the data analyst role, its demand, and how coding, Python, and Tableau turn data into market insights, click-rate trends, and user behavior for product improvement.
Explore effective PhD job searching and networking strategies, emphasizing referrals over spray-and-pray applications, building a strong LinkedIn network, and tailoring a results-oriented resume and CV for industry and academia.
Gain a complete guide to your ADHD and HD career transition, outlining academic versus industry paths, CV-to-resume conversion, research papers, and practical resources for a successful career.
** #Founder of highly ranked PhD website - PhD Source LLC #Recipient of $230,000 in grants #H-index of 7 #Published in Nature Communications #Certified in Business of Science #Entrepreneur, Biotech, Scientist, and Medical Communications #Expert in PhD Career Transitions #Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneur and Innovation
** #Founder of PhD Source LLC, PhD consulting and services! ** Wealth of industry and PhD professional information **
Many PhDs never think about their post-PhD plans. They get stuck and often times are without a job when they graduate.
We are here to help you start turning your PhD into the job you deserve. This course will turn your PhD into the best precursor for the job you want. Don't know what job that is yet? We'll give you the tools, the career guides and references to get you to a top list of careers. The course helps you assess yourself and formulate a plan for your post PhD.
In this course, you will learn everything you need to know about your PhD that your advisor can't help with…from how to utilize your qualifier, candidacy, and thesis to your advantage, how to diagnose your PhD, navigate difficult environments, determine if your PhD is set up for academics or industry, all the way to differentiating your PhD. This course covers all of the important information and topics learned by multiple PhDs, postdocs, and industry professionals. This course combines expert advice + real life practical PhD and job transition experience that will help make you more successful!
This course is taught by founder of ranked PhD website - PhD Source LLC, recipient of $230,000 in grants, H-index of 7, published in Nature Communications, certified in Business of Science, Entrepreneur, Biotech, Scientist, and Medical Communications, Expert in PhD Career Transitions, Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneur and Innovation. PhD Source LLC is located in the greater New York City area. He has founded 2 websites, 1 company, former COO of biotech startup, was a TL1 NIH Postdoc Fellow, received the Science Foundation of Ireland Travel Fellowship, received an NYU Venture Fellowship, and worked 1 year in Medical Communications. This course will focus on PhD concepts that you need to know that might not be common sense. This course makes the general PhD, differentiating your PhD, and PhD career transition very easy to understand! The professor of this course is also Marketing Associate at Innovation Forum of New York.
The contents of this course are all based on work experiences from several grant submissions, 12 papers, 25 conferences, 1 PhD, 1 NIH funded Postdoc at NYU in their Clinical and Translational Science fellowship program, several courses at NYU in pharmaceutical drug development, 1 NYU Venture Fellowship, 1 year in medical communications, creating 2 website niches, creating 2 companies, pitching a biotech company for angel funding, operating the business development of a biotech startup, and transitioning to being an entrepreneurship and innovation professor, and loads more of experiences!
Meet the Prof:
Tom - I did my PhD at University of Notre Dame, a traveling research fellowship at National University of Ireland, Galway, and a NIH-funded postdoc at New York University. I worked in biotechnology consulting and pharmaceutical medical communications, then converting towards entrepreneurship and working in biotech business development while teaching senior engineers how to start companies. Connect with me on LinkedIn and reach out. My network is in New York City, and I’m very involved in the PhD community in multiple cities. I volunteer as a writer for biomedical entrepreneurship landscape in New York City, while conducting marketing for the Innovation Forum of New York.
The concepts of this course have been taught by me in many consulting sessions with PhDs from several universities, where the feedback has been positive.
An Entire PhD and Career Transition in 1 Course: Professor and Entrepreneur Course is brought to you by PhD Source LLC.
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The Data Tells the Story:
****** 85% of PhDs do not receive adequate career support during their PhD
****** 3 of every 4 PhDs visit the guidance counseling department at their university.
******* 89% of PhDs want to become professors
******* There were 55,000 PhD graduates in 2017 and only 3,000 tenure track professor open positions
******* Even with all of this, 60% of PhDs do one or more postdocs
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Students of this course will enjoy learning everything they need to know about their PhD, how to make it better, and get the most out of it for their following career….from doing a qualifier to exploring the career job market while learning the most important topics not taught during a PhD. Take your career to the next level!
Who this course is for:
· Anyone interested in or undergoing a PhD (only practical concepts that you can use and no boring theory + we won't cover topics that are common sense).
· PhDs uncertain about their career
· PhDs needing to assess their PhD productivity