How To Land An Industry Scientist Job After Getting Your PhD

The final months of graduate school are often the most difficult on students. Years of intense scholarship and research must be condensed into a dissertation in a matter of months, while at the same time planning what is supposed to happen after the defense and somehow maintaining your personal health in the middle of this academic madness. Thankfully, many of us have gone down this road before and have managed to both finish and land jobs while writing up that dissertation.

Here are some pointers that I learned while writing up my dissertation and landing an industry scientist position during the last 3 months of my PhD.