Beyond Academia

Connecting PhDs with the world

Beyond Academia is a non-profit organization run by UC Berkeley graduate students with the goal of empowering graduate students and postdocs to expand their career options beyond the traditional academic track. It accomplishes this career education through a series of events, including an annual conference, workshops, tutuorials and lectures that connect connect academics with those who have made a transition to industry.

Our events
Our mission

Events

Professional Profile Clinic

January 29th, 2020 from 4pm-7pm

Bring your resumes and CVs for critiques by a professional portfolio coach.

Beyond Academia Conference 2020

February 27 - 28, 2020

Our flagship conference is a two-day event with close to 100 PhD speakers who successfully transitioned from academia to industry.

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Our mission

To educate people in academia on their non-academic career options

Many grad students feel academia is their only career option. We help people explore all their options in an honest and low-pressure environment.

To help PhDs see how their skills and knowlege translate outside of academia.

PhDs acquire highly valuable skills during their training, but often people think the skills only apply to academia. We help people see beyond this.

Our values

Academia-positive

We're not against academic careers. We just want PhDs to know it's not their only option.

All disciplines

We work for all PhDs, regardless of their field: Humanities, Social Science or STEM.