Events

11
2022
Navigating the non-academic transition process: Envisioning your long term career development
In this seminar, we review the non-academic transition process of “discover-research-implement-build”, adopted from Beyond the Professoriate, and given special attention on experiences from our international student community and needs from The PILOT Project participants.
Register here:
https://msu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_n3zXtSj1S5y3CKBWSD-qug
Past Recordings

22
2022
Career Development beyond Academia: A discussion with the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development
Four guest speakers from the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) will share their experience transitioning from university and academic workplaces into non-academic careers. Each speaker will share how they applied the four stages of career transition (adopted from Beyond the Professoriate), including: discovery, research, implement and build. Participants will reflect on how to (1) discover their skills, strengths and values; (2) research careers and opportunities that align with these factors; (3) implement a tailored job search; and (4) how to continue building their career path after accepting a job.

14
2022
Develop your career metric: Values, skills and interests that filter your non-academic search
In this seminar, we will discuss how academics can build a list of criteria—a metric—by which to “know their options” and evaluate jobs that are the best fit according to their respective values, transferable skills, and interests.

21
2022
Doing the research: Applying your career metric to identify and attract non-academic opportunities
In this seminar, we will discuss how academics research and evaluate their non-academic career opportunities, translate their work for non-academic employers, and how to prepare materials to launch their career search.

28
2022
Putting research to practice: Focusing your job search and building your non-academic career
In this seminar, we review proven job search strategies that build on our work from the past two seminars on career metrics and research. We learn to conduct a laser-focused search and how to seek further advancement and growth after landing the job.