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57 Ready for a Change? – with Jennifer Polk

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Jennifer Polk coaches PhDs ready to make a career change.

It’s the time of the year when many of us slow down and think about our career decisions. Are you happy with yours? Are you considering a change? I am, in fact, going to make a change in 2021.

On this podcast, I talked about careers outside of academia a couple of times. This time I talk with Dr. Jennifer Polk from Toronto, Canada. She’s a career coach for PhDs. I came across her Twitter account a while back and thought this would make a great episode.

She describes how she helps PhDs to find out what they want from life and how to find a fitting job.

If you’d like to get in touch with her, check her out:

  • Jennifer Polk’s website “From PhD to Life”
  • On Twitter, Jennifer Polk is @FromPhDtoLife
  • From PhD to Life on Facebook
  • From PhD to Life on LinkedIn

    • Other episodes on careers for academics and in academia:

    • 48 SciComm as Career Development Tool – Dmitry Kopelyanskiy
    • 39 From Cosy(?) Academia to Harsh(?) Industry! – with John Stowers
    • 27 Precarious Postdocs. A Future for Research? – with Gary McDowell
    • 25 SciComm: Pint of Science – with Elodie Chabrol
    • 19 Insecurity and Uncertainties for Early Career Academics – with Maria Pinto
    • 17 From PhD to SciComm via BookTube – with Deboki Chakravarti
    • 13 Is there Sunshine Outside the Ivory Tower? – The Recovering Academic Podcast
    • #7: Funding Adviser: career at the Interface of Science – with Cristina Oliveira
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