Are you interested in exploring careers beyond academia? Your graduate school training offers a wealth of transferrable skills that employers value across industries. Discover resources that will guide you through every phase of your job or internship search.

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Tailored to PhD students, this guide will help you highlight your strongest assets and skills, and differentiate you from other candidates seeking similar positions.
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Resume & Cover Letters for Master's Students

This guide, tailored to Master’s students, will help you highlight your strongest assets and skills, and differentiate you from other candidates seeking similar positions.
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Building Professional Connections

Networking is making connections—talking with people who can provide you with information, advice, resources, and possible contacts related to your fields of interest. 
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Beyond the Professoriate

Beyond the Professoriate is a professional development training platform that helps PhD students transition into academic or nonacademic career paths.
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Interstride

Interstride is a career platform offering a variety of tools designed to enhance the career exploration and job-search experience for international students. 
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PhDs are needed in every sector to address the world’s problems. This booklet offers a taste of the many career paths PhD students can pursue beyond academia. 
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Welcome to GenE

Written by Jeffrey Bussgang, General Partner and Co-Founder, Flybridge Capital Partners; Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School

January 15, 2026

My HBS students are in the process of returning to campus and, bluntly, kind of freaking out. In just a few …

By Caroline Rende
Caroline Rende Associate Director of Graduate Career Exploration
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Free Professional Headshots!

Visit the Headshot Hub in the Collaborative Commons, 2nd Floor of the Smith Campus Center for your free self-service professional headshot, delivered to your inbox!

No appointment needed. Stop by anytime the Smith Campus Center is open: Mon-Fri: 7am – 10pm, …

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Mignone Center for Career Success
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PhDs with Purpose Event Recap: Careers in Investing feat. Dr. Nare Janvelyan, PhD ’18 (Chemical Physics)

By Caroline Rende, Associate Director, Graduate Career Exploration

PhDs are increasingly seeking career paths where their analytical rigor, problem-solving abilities, and intellectual curiosity can thrive outside the traditional academic track. At our recent PhDs with Purpose event, Dr. Nare Janvelyan …

By Caroline Rende
Caroline Rende Associate Director of Graduate Career Exploration
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GRADUATE SPOTLIGHTS

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  • Economics Postdoctoral Fellow National Bureau of Economic Research
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  • Boston, MA
  • Senior Manager, Commercial Diagnostics & Bioinformatics Sarepta Therapeutics
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  • Philadelphia, PA
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  • CA
  • Graduate Student Fellow Chinese for Affirmative Action
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  • Washington, DC
  • International Program Specialist - Eastern Europe & Central Asia Department of Commerce - Commercial Law Development Program
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  • Boston, MA
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