Harvard Griffin GSAS Beyond Academia

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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Neurodiversity @ Work Employer Roundtable

Neurodiversity @ Work Employer Roundtable – Disability:IN (disabilityin.org)

A collection of employers committed to neurodiversity-focused hiring initiatives.

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Best Companies or Workplaces for People With Disabilities

By Charlotte Gerber

Best Companies or Workplaces for Disabilities (verywellhealth.com)

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What to expect in a biotech/pharma compbio interview

by Dean Lee, Computational biology for cell therapy @ Novartis | Figure One Lab

If you have not previously interviewed for a compbio role in biotech/pharma, it may be unclear how you should prepare. Read on for an outline of what to …

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