From lab to job market: translating your skills to land a great job
PhDs have marketable skills, but we often fail in translating them appropriately for potential employers. Attendees joined the Biomedical Careers Committee and the co-founders of Oystir, a tech startup that helps science PhDs find non-academic jobs, for a workshop on how to position your skills when applying for jobs. Oystir identifies and quantifies PhDs’ skills, then connects them with jobs that require those skills. This session featured a diagnostic exercise to identify your skills, which ones make you stand out, and the jobs for which they make you best suited.
Date: Wednesday, December 10
Time: 5:30-7pm
Location: BML B131, Brady Auditorium, 310 Cedar Street
Rudy Bellani: As a consultant at McKinsey & Company, Rudy advised private and public sector clients on talent and marketing strategies. He received his PhD in Neuroscience from Rockefeller University where he studied the developmental origins of brain asymmetry. He has an extensive collection of vertebrate brains.
Zach Marks: At McKinsey & Company, Zach developed new strategies to hire talent from non-traditional sources. He also advised clients on economic development, designing South Sudan’s first national agriculture plan. He is writing a book about chai wallahs, India’s roadside tea vendors.
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