![]() ![]() They searched and shared information on alternative non-academic careers, went to career development events, and took the IDP test for career exploration. With their shared interest in preparing for a non-academic career, Nadia and Jen decided to learn about non-academic career options and how to achieve them. After a while, Nadia brought it up in a conversation to her labmate and friend, Jennifer DeLeon, another MCB student, and was surprised to learn that Jen was thinking the same way. She also learned that for every available opening for a tenure-track professorship in the United States, there are roughly seven graduate students ready to squeeze into that spot, making the academic track even less plausible. ![]() She felt alone in these thoughts, and thought that it meant she should quit the PhD program. She realized that she did not want to stay on the academic track, but didn’t know what other careers were available to PhDs. This is how Nadia Jaber, a recent graduate of the Molecular and Cellular Biology PhD program at Stony Brook, felt during her third year of study. Many PhD students would like to explore their career paths outside of academia, but few of them know what they are interested in or how to prepare for job hunting. ![]()
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