Career Beyond Academia Profile Form

There are many career options for geoscientists outside of academia. Graduate students (and advisors) are often less familiar with these options because they exist outside of mainstream academia. By describing your own geoscience-related career here, you can help inform this population about non-academic careers in geoscience. Our staff will use the information you include here to make a profile page about you and will add it to our online collection.

This form must be completed in a single session. You may wish to compose your answers in this Word document (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 13kB Aug23 12) and then paste them into this form. You need not answer every question; feel free to choose those that are most meaningful to you.

Your Name:

Your Title:

Your Employer:

Briefly describe your current job responsibilities, perhaps by describing a typical day, week, or month.

Briefly describe your educational background and career path.

If you have additional details not mentioned above, in what ways did your education or other prior experience prepare you for your job?

What were key decision points or factors that were important in deciding your career path?
Were there any specific challenges or difficult moments that arose while making your decision?

What do you like best about your work?

What is the most challenging aspect of your work?
What strategies have you developed for tackling that challenge?

What advice do you have for graduate students or post-docs preparing for careers in geoscience?
What do you know now that you wish you had known as you started your career?

Are there any myths about your job that you would like to help dispel?

What do you see as the future of this career field?

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The Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center has more good information about copyright as it applies to academic settings.

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