UCLA Career Center
This PhD career exploration app will help you to be “career ready” for the non-academic career routes travelled by PhDs. We’ll present a range of diverse career options outside of the academic world that might be suited to your unique skills. Meet and network with PhDs who have chosen and developed satisfying careers outside of academia! Current UCLA doctoral student leaders will discuss how they are preparing for various options while engaged in the program. Join us at this informative program where you will learn about the challenges and successes of pursuing non-academic careers for PhDs.
Speakers include (subject to change):
Netta Avineri, Vice President of Academic Affairs, UCLA Graduate Students Association
Cynthia Balatoni Deignan, PhD, Cellular and Molecular Pathology, Manager, Medical Communications, Amgen Inc., UCLA Alumna 2008
Anna Draganova, PhD, Engagement Manager, McKinsey & Company, Los Angeles, UCLA Alumna 2006 (Mathematics)
Thomas Helscher, PhD, (English) FIPA, President and Training and Supervising Analyst, LAISPS (Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies)
Jamal Madni, PhD Candidate, President, UCLA Graduate Students Association
Homero E. del Pino, PhD (Philosophy), Director of Innovations, Operation, and Development (AXIS) Advancing Excellence in Translational Science, UCLA Alumnus
Career Week is absolutely free for currently registered UCLA students. Register today!
The Career Center extends its appreciation to Jose Rafael Negrete for providing the MapIt logo.
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