Transitioning From Academia to Industry: Strategies For a Successful Career Shift
June 2023
Are you ready to make a career change? The prospect of making a career shift can be daunting. The shift from academia to industry offers exciting opportunities while the journey getting there may seem like a strange new land.
Leaving one career to start another requires strategic presentation of your knowledge and skills and most people don’t know how to do that in a way that speaks to employers.
In this presentation we provide a step-by-step process to help you make better career change decisions and you’ll have a generous list of resources to help you chart your course.
This program does not offer CE credit.
Presenter
R. Anne Hull, MEd
A career counselor and president of Hull Strategies, LLC, which advises organizations on developing and retaining talent. Anne was affiliated with a national outplacement firm for 12 years, working with over 25 companies and hundreds of clients to secure new jobs. She is the co-developer of CareerScope, designed to help American Association for the Advancement of Science fellows (80+ postdocs) find new careers. Anne has served as president of American Career Professionals International in the Washington, D.C., area and is a member of the National Career Development Association, Career Directors International, Career Thought Leaders, and Maryland Career Development Association.
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