Sacha Khoury
Assistant Director- Analytics & Modeling - Event Response at Moody's RMSDo informational interviews, they can be very helpful. Use your network to look for opportunities and learn about options.
Do informational interviews, they can be very helpful. Use your network to look for opportunities and learn about options.
Be open to diverse career paths. Your research skills are valuable beyond academia.
I also was beginning to feel like the entire breadth of my skills were not reaching their potential as an academic.
Academia, in most cases, prepares you well to take on most tasks. The only requirement is to adapt to a more commercially focused environment and apply those same skills in more flexible ways.