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Ph.Ds & Postdocs

Your Ph.D. experience has equipped you not only with specialized expertise in your discipline, but also with a strong transferable skill-set that may be applied to a range of careers. Take advantage of OCS resources to explore career options, develop professional skills and experiences and conduct a rewarding job search.

Doubling Down on Healthcare and Biotech

Y Combinator names nVision Medical founder and former CEO, Surbhi Sarna, its first-ever partner focused fully on bio, according to this article from Forbes Magazine.

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Founding an Analytics Firm – FullStory

Exploring the life of the entrepreneur from Forbes Magazine.

“Founded by fellow Georgia Tech graduates Scott Voight, Bruce Johnson, and Joel Webber in 2014, FullStory develops software that records user interactions on a website or app providing product and support …

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Craft & Career: Hanoi Hantrakul ’15, AI Research Scientist, Composer, and Cultural Technologist – Part 1

We return with a new guest conversation for the Craft and Career series for Yale’s OCS podcast, featuring conversations with professional creatives from the arts, entertainment, and media industries, to discuss the nuances of their craft, the reality of their …

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Derek I. Webster Senior Associate Director for Creative Careers
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CareerShift

Powerful job board that all Yale OCS students and alumni have access to
Provides millions of contacts for networking (alumni) and find recruiters for various employers or by industry

Alumni Spotlights

Boris Albers (PhD ’08, Engineering & Applied Science)

PhD, STEM
  • Consultant Russell Reynolds Associates
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Alissa Ardito Ashcroft (PhD ’04, Political Science)

PhD, Social Sciences
  • Assistant General Counsel Congressional Budget Office
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Ellen Babby (PhD ’80, French Literature)

Humanities, PhD
  • Independent Consultant Nonprofit Management
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Ariel Bardi (PhD ’15, Comparative Literature)

Humanities, PhD
  • Freelance Journlist
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Anna Barry PhD ’98, Biophysical Chemistry

PhD, STEM
  • Venture Partner Deerfield Management
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Anne Bauer (PhD ’08, Physics)

PhD, STEM
  • Lead Data Scientist The New York Times
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Arjel Bautista (PhD ’10 Chemistry)

PhD, STEM
  • Senior Director, ESG Performance and Reporting Bristol Myers Squibb
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Lauren Bierbaum (PhD ’08, American Studies)

Humanities, PhD
  • Senior Research Analyst CREDO, Stanford University
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Peter Blodgett (PhD ’07, History)

Humanities, PhD
  • H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American History Huntington Library
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Nancy Brune (PhD ’06, Political Science)

PhD
  • Executive Director Kenny Guinn Center for Policy Priorities
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Erin Burke (PhD ’17, Biological Anthropology)

PhD
  • Researcher Modern Fertility
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Meisha Bynoe (PhD ’10, Microbiology)

PhD, STEM
  • Director of Customer Services & Business Operations Philips Healthcare Canada
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Vault Career Guides

This is just a sampling of the many career and industry guides available through Vault/Firsthand, a resource free to Yale students and postdocs.

 

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