Graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and interested faculty and staff are invited to attend a presentation by Paula Chambers, Ph.D., founder of the Versatile Ph.D. She will present facts about the academic job market and alternate career pathways. Paula will show how PhDs have transferrable skills for non academic careers and ways to prepare for those careers. The session will included a tour of the Versatile PhD and time for Q&A. Thursday, February 13, from 10:30 a.m.-Noon in the US Bank Conference Theatre, Ohio Union. Event co-sponsors are the Graduate School, Office of Research, and Office of Student Life.
Paula Chambers, PH.D. was working on her dissertation in English at Ohio State when she realized she would prefer a nonacademic career. Not finding much information about her options, she created a listserv on non-academic careers for humanities PhDs, the first of its kind. In 2010, she transformed the list into Versatile PHD. Paula runs Versatile PHD from her home office in Los Angeles.
Not everyone who earns a PHD. wants to or is able to pursue a career as a professor or academic researcher. But many graduate students, post-docs, and faculty are uncertain about what career options exist and how to pursue them. Paula Chambers, founder of THE VERSATILE PHD, presents facts about the academic job market and career pathways. She shows how PhDs do have transferrable skills, that there are lots of careers PhDs can go into, and there are many ways to prepare for those careers.
Accessing the Versatile PHD: The Graduate School funds Ohio State’s institutional membership in the Versatile PHD. Free to all Ohio State student, post-doc, faculty, and staff members.
https://access.gradsch.ohio-state.edu/vphd/vphd. aspx
Please register online at: http://www.gradsch.ohio-state.edu/eventregistration/
