Our Mission
To democratize conversations that add value to students who study the life sciences and are interested in non-academic careers. Our content is specifically designed to help answer two key questions that inevitably arise in the career exploration process:
What career opportunities are available to you? Our guests represent diverse personal & professional backgrounds and reflect a wide variety of industries & companies.
How can you attain the career that you are interested in? The experiences of our guests provide a model by which one can successfully navigate a specific profession.
Episodes are grouped into three segments:
Careers
Each episode illustrates our guest’s personal & professional journey as they navigated through their own career path, with an emphasis on pivotal anecdotes that taught them constructive lessons along the way.
Insights
Each episode investigates major topics that are shaping medical treatments today, with a focus on delving into the science behind groundbreaking discoveries.
Clubs
Shared conversations that are crowdsourced by the clubs & initiatives at Johns Hopkins University.
Perspectives on Career Exploration
Nature Biotechnology | Translating Academic Careers into Industry Healthcare Professions
“An ideal time to start your career transition is to begin shortly after the first year into a master’s or PhD program. At that stage, graduate students usually have a first idea of their academic and lab environment and whether they are passionately focused on an academic path or are already thinking outside the academic box.”
Measuring effects of trainee professional development on research productivity: A cross-institutional meta-analysis
"PhD-trained scientists are essential contributors to the workforce in diverse employment sectors that include academia, industry, government, and non-profit organizations. A few institutions funded by the National Institutes of Health’s Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) program demonstrated a positive correlation between participation in career and professional development activities and productivity (time to degree, publications, etc.). Our findings suggest that doctoral students should be encouraged to participate in career and professional development opportunities to ensure their preparedness for a variety of diverse and important careers in the workforce."