Navigating Careers Beyond Academia: A Practical Handbook for Doctoral and Postdoctoral Researchers (Insider Guides to Success in Academia)

Navigating Careers Beyond Academia offers an evidence-based, step-by-step guide to successful career transition beyond academia.It provides an accessible overview of scholarship in the field of career transition, turning this into strategies for researchers to proactively pivot their careers into other sectors. This book is designed to help readers address barriers to exploring careers beyond academia, to determine their priorities, to generate options, and to navigate some of the most persistent questions about preparing for career transition beyond academia.It guides readers through strategies for identifying relevant opportunities and communicating their skills and value effectively to potential employers, and concludes with a framework for building a career in the longer term. Grounded in case studies of former researchers from a range of backgrounds and disciplines across STEM, social sciences, and humanities, this is a definitive guide for researchers.It also acts as a toolkit to