From: Jane Chin, PhD
PhD Career Transition Strategist
Dear PhD Scientist:
You spent years getting your Ph.D. degree, and you realize that you are not interested in working at the bench as a research scientist. You don’t want to do postdoc after postdoc while waiting for that elusive (mythical?) academic opening! Or maybe you want to do science, but not in academia where you enter the infamous tenure-track bottleneck, and certainly where you’re paid what you’re worth.
You’ve finally come to grips with your career direction. But you feel isolated. Your peers and advisers are not very enthusiastic about your decision for an alternative career path. Maybe they don’t understand why you’re making this decision. Maybe they don’t know what’s out there and they haven’t done it themselves so they can’t be helpful.
You want sane work hours so you can have a personal life, maybe start a family. You want to earn a salary that respects the years you have invested in building your knowledge and expertise… or at least a salary that lets you pay off your student loans – the bills – a mortgage.
Sound familiar?
You are joining the ranks of many Ph.D. scientists who have told me their personal stories about marching away from their “traditional PhD career paths”, away from the ivory towers, and toward creating sustainable and enjoyable career paths for themselves.
You can increase your chance of success in an alternative career when you know what actions to take to get the results you want.
I wrote this book as an action-packed, results-oriented work-guide and take you step-by-step through the process of transitioning your PhD career. Do you want to leave the ivory towers of academia and enter the life science industry? Do you want to capitalize on your love teaching and science in an applied healthcare career? Do you want to completely leave the scientific life and become an entrepreneur?
Whatever your reason for transitioning your PhD career, you will have to learn a new way of looking at your career path. If you are like me, you want to tap into the lessons of success from PhD scientists just like you, who have been where you are – who made the leap – and who now love what they do!
By the time you are done with your first postdoc, you may be competing with MDs (physicians) or PharmDs (pharmacists) who gained patient-care or management experience and who, unlike PhDs, hold a vocational “license” that gives transitional mobility. A PhD does not graduate with a license that lets them treat patients or work in retail pharmacy. Because your PhD field is so narrow, when you choose an alternate career path, you are staking huge risks in your future.
I was seeing many of my PhD scientist colleagues trying to break into alternative career paths, only to be outcompeted by other types of healthcare professionals. These are smart people, but they may not have resources that make them generally employable beyond their narrow PhD projects.
I wrote this book to level the playing field for PhDs like you who are competing in alternate science careers, to help improve your odds of winning the competition for jobs not traditionally dominated by PhDs.
Here is a glimpse of what you will learn from 5 Lessons in PhD Career Transitions:
How to Keep Sane and Stay on Track during Your Transition
Why Your Procrastination may be Costing You Over $30,000 a Year
3 Ways to Create Your Career Opportunities
3 Steps to Uncover Your Strengths
How to Translate your PhD for General Consumption
This book is your personal “Transition Coach”. Write all over it, brainstorm with it, spill coffee on it, staple descriptions of your ideal jobs in it, buddy up with another PhD who feels the same way you do!
With this book, you take your pen to paper and unleash your scientific skills to create an action plan that gets you closer to your dream career, no matter what field you’re looking to enter.
Today there are more resources for Ph.D. scientists looking to leap into alternative careers than ever before. Many of these resources are bite-sized advice and tips to whet your appetite for what is possible when you transition, but few goes into the level of detail that you need to ACTUALLY START.
If I were to work with you one-on-one to cover everything you’ll get in this book, we’ll need to spend about 16 hours and you’ll invest over $7,968 in coaching fees, and that doesn’t include the money you’d spend to connect with the PhD scientists who are thriving in their alternate careers (there are 4 additional PhD success profiles in this book). Here, you’re not going to pay me 50% or even 25% of what I charge on coaching fees – your one-time investment is $99.
PLUS! To help you accelerate your transitioning success when you buy this book, I’m giving you a FREE BONUS. My 5 Fatal Career Traps Webinar valued at $129.
This webinar unlocks the traps that can stop you from making the leap to your future! Find out why you’re stuck in a rut and not engaging your passion in careers that offer better advancement opportunities, make your more marketable, and pay you for what you are truly worth. Get priceless information like:
The one question you must ask to see if you are doing what you truly love to do.
How to immediately improve rapport with people, especially people who think of PhDs as lab rats, arrogant, elitist, and/or socially inept.
Why you’re stuck in a rut and how to turn this around by setting one single goal.
Here is a short video clip where I overview 2 of the 5 traps:
In this special offer, I’m making the full length 40-minute webinar ABSOLUTELY FREE when you buy my book. But this special offer isn’t going to last forever, so take advantage of it before I start charging for this webinar.
$99
60-Day Money Back Guarantee
Work this book. Listen to the bonus webinar. If after 60 days you do not come up with at least 3-5 concrete steps to accelerate your career transition process, send the book back and I will refund you 100% of your money. Seriously.