1. GETTING THE MOST OUT OF
BEYOND ACADEMIA
Andrew Green, PhD

2. 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

3. 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

4. Learn more about the field or profession
• ScienceCareers.org
• Versatile PhD
• Callisto – Vault Reports
• How many concentric circles?

5. SCIENCECAREERS.ORG

7. VERSATILE PHD VIA VSPA.BERKELEY.EDU

10. Find other professionals working in that area (preferably
with a PhD)
• Professional Societies (STC)
• Scholarly meetings
• Leveraging LinkedIn (dl)

11. LINKEDIN
• How many of you have a LinkedIn account?
• The power of Groups and Searches

12. THE POWER OF LINKEDIN GROUPS (30K)

15. UC BERKELEY ALUMNI GROUP

16. NON-ALUMNI GROUPS

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

18. 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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21. SCROLL DOWN

23. ADVANCED SEARCH

24. SO I TALKED TO DAVID, AND GRANT WRITING

25. FILTER THE SEARCH – PHD/BAY AREA

26. SCROLL DOWN

27. SCROLL DOWN

28. PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

30. PAST PANELIST

31. HER TRANSITION

32. RESEARCH COMPANIES

33. 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)

34. 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

35. 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.

36. THINK YOU DON’T KNOW ANYONE?

37. 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+

38. 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?