How to Get a Career Outside Academia
A Step-by-Step Plan
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Does This Sound Familiar?
You have spent your life in academia.
You have exceled in your undergrad, your PhD and maybe even completed a Post Doctorate Fellowship or two.
You planned to spend the rest of your life in academia.
You would have one job for life –
A Tenured Professor.
But now that has changed.
Academic jobs aren’t available.
Tenure positions are next to impossible to get.
You realize that your planned career path isn’t going to happen.
Even that advanced degree you worked so hard for is not a job ticket.
What Now?
You need to make money because you have to support yourself and your family.
You have little to no experience with the world outside the university environment.
You have no plan, no direction and no strategy for what do to next.
You send applications to posting after job posting, but nothing happens.
Your colleagues can’t help.
Seriously… What Now?
It’s A Massive Change!
Going through any change can cause fear and anxiety. The level of fear and anxiety is amplified when it also affects your ability to provide for your family and meet the basic needs of food and shelter.
Maybe you even feel ashamed and like a failure.
Possibly for the first time in your life you have failed at something that you set your mind to achieve.
If that weren’t bad enough, you also feel isolated.
No One Understands …
Your supervisor isn’t going to support you.
Your colleagues can’t or won’t talk to you because they can’t have a conversation with someone when they fear the same thing is going to happen to them.
Faculty advisors haven’t experienced life outside of academia and really don’t know how to help.
You have proven yourself over and over with your marks, degrees, scholarships and grants.
Now you need to prove yourself in a completely different way. A way in which you never expected or prepared for.
You have tremendous knowledge and capability but you have no idea how to translate your skill set to the outside world.
It’s terrifying.
What Do You Do Now?
Obviously, you want to build a career, but right now you need to get a job.
How do you actually get a job?
Where do you look?
What type of job do you even want?
How do you build a compelling resume and create a killer application package?
What goes in an application?
How do you prepare for an industry interview?
What do you do after an interview?
How do you accept an offer?
How do you use that job to build toward a rewarding career?
There Is Life After Academia!
You need a new approach to build a solid career path and effectively navigate the job market.
You need a step-by-step plan to effectively translate your skills and core competencies into the business world.
I can help you build and execute that plan.
Ways To Work With Me …
Work One-On-One With Me
Get the customized attention you need to quickly learn, practice and master the necessary tools and strategies to get you on the path to a highly successful career using my proven methodology. You will also work with me to develop and apply an approach tailored for your unique situation.
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Group Program
Work with a community of peers who understand where you come from; where you want to go; who share your drive to create a career but need a reliable proven methodology to get there.
Together you will practice and perfect key skills including how to excel in a behavior based industry interview.
Live Course – How to Find a Job and Build a Successful Career
Learn and master the key strategies, tools and skills to find a job, build a highly-effective custom resume and application package, learn how to excel in an accomplishments-based interview, then negotiate and accept a job offer. You will also work with a community of your peers to practice, gain confidence and perfect your materials, networking and interview skills based on my proven step-by-step method.
There is hope. The future is yours. Let me guide you to success.
Click the button below and schedule a discovery call with me.
There is no pressure and the sessions are extremely informative.
We will talk about where you are now and what you want to achieve.
You will get clarity on your goals and come away with a solid strategy and plan for your next steps.
About Don Back
I’m a Biochemist with a PhD and an MBA gold medal.
I have lived the academic life.
I chose a different path.
I see the crisis in academia for PhD employment and created these programs to help YOU build a rewarding career outside of academia.
I have developed a proven methodology to address YOUR needs that doesn’t unrealistically rely on some miracle that businesses will create and fund expensive research programs just to hire YOU.