What opportunities after my PhD?
[3 days]
This workshop helps PhD candidates synthesize their experience and gives them the necessary tools to prepare their future. Over the three days, they will assess their career plans, learn how to promote their skills, and build their network through meetings with professionals already working.

Companies, research institutes, universities, foundations and other organizations: please contact us to schedule a session of the seminar, “What opportunities will I find after my PhD?”
Goals
- Explore career alternatives to public-funded research
- Assess and communicate about your career plan
- Identify and promote your skills
- Learn how to develop a pitch to introduce yourself
Benefits
- Hear about the experiences of PhD-holders working outside of academic research
- Meet with business leaders who are recruiting PhD-holders
- Test your pitch and receive personal advice
- Take advantage of the dynamics of a complete seminar: alternation of practical drills, self-analysis, round tables, seminars and situational training exercises
Program
Before the seminar
Participants are invited to prepare a poster on the theme, “My story, my aspirations”
Day 1
- Meet & greet, introduction
- Panorama of the job market for PhD-holders
- Poster session: telling my story
- Career plan, skills and job search strategy – Concepts, methods and practical drills (Part 1)
Day 2
- Career plan, skills and job search strategy – Concepts, methods and practical drills (Part 2)
- Building, maintaining and using my network
- Round table – Testimonials from PhD-holders in the corporate world, leaders and founders of companies representative of the job market in participants’ fields
Day 3
- Preparation of a pitch for network meetings – Situational training exercises
- Round table – Testimonials from PhD-holders in the corporate world, leaders and founders of companies representative of the job market in participants’ fields
Testimonies
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