{"id":3438,"date":"2014-09-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medschool.prd.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/2014\/09\/17\/phd-jobs-how-to-transition-from-academia-into-business\/"},"modified":"2018-09-05T16:05:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T16:05:29","slug":"phd-jobs-how-to-transition-from-academia-into-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/2014\/09\/17\/phd-jobs-how-to-transition-from-academia-into-business\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD Jobs: How To Transition From Academia Into Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.538em;\">&#8220;I sent resumes to over 200 companies during my last year of graduate school and heard back from exactly zero of them. It was embarrassing.\u00a0And confusing. I guess I just assumed that big corporations would fall all over themselves trying to hire me once I had a PhD. Not so much.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Getting my PhD turned out to the beginning of a whole new challenge: getting a job.<\/strong>\u00a0This is something I didn\u2019t have any training for. I\u2019d never taken any classes in economics, finance, management, marketing, or organizational behavior.\u00a0I\u2019d never had a business lunch or made any real business connection whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>And, to make matters worse, none of my mentors or thesis committee members knew anyone in business. I was on my own.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">-Isaiah Hankel<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Read the full article <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cheekyscientist.com\/phd-jobs\/\">HERE<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I sent resumes to over 200 companies during my last year of graduate school and heard back from exactly zero of them. It was embarrassing.\u00a0And confusing. I guess I just assumed that big corporations would fall all over themselves trying to hire me once I had a PhD. Not so much. Getting my PhD turned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[30,24,61,31,35],"class_list":["post-3438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-path-to-career-resources","tag-path-to-career-resources","tag-career-options-business-development","tag-nonacademic-search","tag-path-to-career","tag-skillbuildingfeed"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6171,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions\/6171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}