Career Exploration

Are you looking for an internship, postdoc, fellowship or full-time role?  As a trainee at Vanderbilt, you are invited to attend the GCC Virtual Career Expo (VCE). This free virtual job fair brings together employers from the… Read More

Check out the PostPhDirections podcast series, which features interviews with PhDs in a variety of non-academic positions. The anecdotes of PhD labor market insertion presented in the interviews are useful for PhD career explorers. Read More

This virtual, multi-day event will highlight a broad range of career paths available to biomedical researchers. Panels and workshops throughout the symposium are designed to help postdocs and doctoral students in the life sciences explore new career paths, learn more about a specific career, and prepare for a… Read More

BRET ASPIRE Resources Path to Career blogs: Faculty Search: https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/career-development/path-to-career/faculty-job-search/ Skill Development: Teaching: https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/career-development/skill-development Office of Career Development Blog: https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/career-development/blog Search tags: Career Options: K-12 Teaching/Outreach, Tenure Track Teaching, Academia, Academic Search, Volunteer Opportunity ASPIRE Workshop on Preparing for a Faculty Career and Job Search:… Read More

Break Into Biotech: A Virtual, Hands-On Course to Launch Your Career Virtual Course Dates: June 2-4, 2025 If you’re thinking about a move into biotech, medtech, or pharma, ASCB’s 3-day virtualBiotech Course is your launchpad. Through real-world case studies, networking, and a team-based… Read More

What is Beyond the Professoriate? Beyond the Professorate offers an extensive range of resources to help PhDs graduate student and postdocs understand and evaluate career options at any stage of your career journey. They provide assessment tools to help identify your career options or if you are further along, they… Read More

As a kickoff to our our new workshop series ASPIRE Up: A Career and Professional Development Series for Biomedical Science Trainees the ASPIRE Program will be hosting Lauren Celano, CEO and Co-founder of Propel Careers for an interactive 3-hour session on “Navigating Your Career Choices” This… Read More

The Vanderbilt University library has a wealth of career-related resources, including access to Vault’s industry and career guides. In addition to guides on job search skills topics like, “Behavioral Interviewing,” Vault has topical guides on a range of fields from the Pharmaceutical and Biotech Industry to Consulting. If you are… Read More

Ever wonder what Biomedical PhD careers look like in the first 10 years after graduation? Do PhD students change career goals during grad school? If they change, why? How many people do a postdoc these days? How long do people stay in postdocs? What kinds of jobs are… Read More

Are you exploring career options in science? Check out this special “Careers Beyond the Bench” issue of Developmental Biology. It features short, first-person perspective articles about different career paths. What makes this special issue “special” compared to other career exploration resources is that the writers describe their career path… Read More