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Career Advice Webinars
Get career advice from top-notch career counselors! Every quarter AGU hosts a new webinar packed with guidance, tips, and wisdom from geoscience professionals.
Next webinar: Career Opportunities and Planning Strategies for Geosciences Doctorates
Tuesday 1st May, 2012 at 1500h-1600h EDT (2000h-2100h UTC)
Presenter: Alaina Levine
Register now! Material from this webinar is available here!
The PhD in Geosciences and related disciplines can open many doors for career opportunities, in realms, industries and organizations you might not have expected, even in this economic climate. The value of geosciences doctorates in industry and the many roles geosciences-educated professionals can play in traditional and non-traditional jobs in a multitude of arenas cannot be overemphasized. In this webinar, will discuss career and job opportunities available today for geosciences doctorates, and the essential search techniques that are needed to find and grasp these opportunities. We will analyze how to find a career that best matches your talents, goals, interests and passions, profile different career tracks, and examine the myriad roles that geosciences doctorates play in industry, government, non-profit, academia and other sectors.
Alaina G. Levine is President of Quantum Success Solutions, a career consulting enterprise with a focus on advancing the professional development expertise of scientists and engineers. She has been advising emerging and established scientists and engineers about their careers for over a decade, and has personally consulted with hundreds of early- and mid-career scientific professionals. The author of over
100 articles pertaining to science, science careers and business in such publications as Science, Nature, Scientific American Online and New Scientist, Levine is a Contributor to National Geographic where she writes and blogs for their website. She also pens the Careers Column for The Euroscientist and the Profiles in Versatility career column for the American Physical Society’s national publication, APS News. Read her complete bio at www.alainalevine.com.
For articles based on previous webinars, visit the Career Toolkit section of the AGU Career Center!
Previous webinar: MS or PhD? Which is Right for Me?
Tuesday 28th February 2012 1500h-1600h EDT (2000h-2100h UTC)
Material from this webinar is available now.
Before you jump into any degree program, you need to have a goal. What kind of career do you desire? Do you want to work in academia or industry? Do you prefer research or public policy, teaching or outreach, or something else? In this webinar, we will discuss the multitude of career tracks that can be accessed by pursuing either an MS and a PhD in geosciences and related subjects. We will address which degree is needed for which career paths, and what benefits are provided by obtaining one degree over the other. We will also discuss whether a research career in particular can be achieved with simply an MS, and in what arenas this can be pursued.
Presenter: Alaina Levine
Alaina G. Levine is President of Quantum Success Solutions, a career consulting enterprise with a focus on advancing the professional development expertise of scientists and engineers. She has been advising emerging and established scientists and engineers about their careers for over a decade, and has personally consulted with hundreds of early- and mid-career scientific professionals. The author of over 100 articles pertaining to science, science careers and business in such publications as Science, Nature, Scientific American Online and New Scientist, Levine currently writes the Careers Column for The Euroscientist and the Profiles in Versatility career column for the American Physical Society’s national publication, APS News. Read her complete bio at www.alainalevine.com.