This is not a Book You Read. This is a Career Transition Coach You Use.

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“I didn’t write this book so you could “read” it or to keep you mulling over the fork in the road that could define your future. I created this to be your personal “Transition Coach”, for you to use. Write all over this book, brainstorm with it, spill coffee on it, staple descriptions of your ideal jobs in it, buddy up with another PhD who feels the same pains you feel and use each lesson as a talking point to encourage each other! (Plus, you’ll save $9 on 2 copies!)

After 30 days of consulting this book like you would with a coach, if you are not satisfied, send your book back to me for a full refund, no questions asked. Seriously.” ~ Jane Chin, Ph.D.

BE FEARLESS in Your Quest for a Career Beyond Academia and Bench Science.

You spent years getting your Ph.D. degree, and you’re not interested in entering the academic tenure “rat race”, but your peers and advisers are not necessarily enthusiastic about your desire to enter an alternative career path.

How dare you demand sane work hours that let you have a personal life or start a family! How can you pollute the ivory towers of academic science with desires for a salary that lets you pay off your student loans and rising mortgage payments! Maybe these are extreme examples, but you find yourself nodding your head, you have joined the ranks of numerous Ph.D. scientists who had told Jane Chin their stories of fear and guilt at appearing to “waste” their decades of schooling and scientific training. Yet the reality is that limitations in the “traditional” scientific career path exists.

This book was written neither to entice a “general PhD audience” nor to be a reference of “alternative science jobs”. This book is an ACTION-ORIENTED, RESULTS-FOCUSED guide to take you step-by-step through the process of transitioning your PhD career. Some of you are looking to leap outside the walls of the ivory towers of academia and secure an industry scientist position. Some of you are looking to capitalize on your love of teaching and talking science to earn an applied scientist position (including field-based careers like the super-hot medical science liaison career). For some of you, this transition is as drastic as leaving research science COMPLETELY (for example, Jane doesn’t even “talk” science in some of her entrepreneurial ventures)! This means you must look at your career journey a different way – including the way you see yourself and make goals!

Jane Chin has walked her talk, making a series of career transitions that took her down some unconventional paths. Even before she started writing her Ph.D. dissertation she knew that the research science life was not for her, even though she conducted her research at a big pharmaceutical company. She chose not to do a postdoc, thus forever sealing her fate to be a “former” research scientist. Instead, Jane opted for a stint in the competitive field of pharmaceutical sales, and broke into pharma sales without having prior sales experience (this was back in the days when sales managers hold much suspicion for Ph.D. scientists who apply for sales jobs).

Shortly after she earned her Ph.D. degree, she made another career transition into medical affairs as a medical science liaison, and worked as a MSL for a few years. Jane made yet another leap, this time a much riskier transition into entrepreneurship, by starting several companies and founding a successful MSL consulting company called Medical Science Liaison Institute. Jane is a recognized thought leader in the field of medical science liaison programs and has published widely on topics of MSL programs, healthcare career transitions, and pharmaceutical selling skills. She also publishes the MSL profession’s first and original management journal called MSL Quarterly. Jane has coached many Ph.D. scientists with their career transitions including breaking into the competitive MSL career.

By the time a Ph.D. scientist is done with his first postdoc, he may be competing with a physician or pharmacist who has a wealth of experience working in patient care team-settings or have management experience in a hospital. Ph.D. scientists often lack career resources and business competencies that other healthcare professionals take for granted, because Ph.D. scientists’ “on the job training” may still be more insulated than healthcare professionals who work in a business setting and has exposure to many of the competencies that employers want.

Jane wrote this book after seeing many Ph.D. scientists struggle to break into alternative career paths, but were often outcompeted by other types of healthcare professionals. Graduate schools aren’t supposed to hold your hand and help you figure out what you want to do with your life, but they sure are supposed to give you the resources to help you be generally EMPLOYABLE. This means equipping you with opportunities to help you develop networking skills and work in teams (i.e. how to get along with other people with agendas that may conflict with yours). This book is here to help you level the playing field by leveraging the skills and training you spent years cultivating, and use it to your advantage when transitioning beyond academia.

• $79
• 98 pages
• How to Keep Sane and Stay on Track during Your Transition
• Why Your Procrastination may be Costing You $30,000+ a Year
• Three Ways to Create Your Career Opportunities
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• Table of Contents

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. 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.

5 Lessons in PhD Career Transitions covers:

• 3 Steps to Uncover Your Strengths
• What You Need to Know About Working with Coaches
• How to Keep Sane and Stay on Track during Your Transition
• How to Translate your PhD for General Consumption
• Why You Procrastinate and How Much It’s Costing You
• 3 Ways to “Create” Your Career Opportunities
• Whether You Really Need a Resume Marketing Service
• … and more

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“Work with this book. Do the exercises. If you are not satisfied, send your book back to me for a full refund, no questions asked. Seriously.” ~ Jane Chin, Ph.D.