My latest blog post for University Affairs has advice from Beyond the Professoriate‘s Career Day panelists for PhDs looking for non-faculty jobs.
PhDs can feel boxed into a limited range of job options, particularly just after graduate school or a postdoc. But doctoral degree holders work in a wide range of roles. I myself work as a life coach and entrepreneur, hardly what I expected I’d do after a history PhD! Career exploration was crucial in my case: I felt lukewarm about all the choices I thought I had; I needed to look elsewhere.
Read the full blog post here.