Marketing Your Research Skills after the PhD with Alana Rister

Get the Papa PhD Career Readiness Tool kit ! Building your brand? Improving your discoverability? Establishing a presence on social media? These are questions that are seldom covered in the context of graduate school and of the career development of young researchers.Do these questions pique your interest?This week, I'm bringing you my recent conversation with Alana Rister about how to market your skills after the PhD. VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAwdQU4HK00?sub_confirmation=1Alana Rister earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2019. Since then, she has been a postdoctoral scholar and research specialist.However, throughout Alana’s experiences, she realized that many researchers were stressed because they didn't have support and felt overwhelmed in their research, so she created the Science Grad School Coach to help support researchers and help them learn exactly how to complete their research with more confidence and less effort. What you’ll learn about in this episode: Why you should work on your brand and on marketing yourself starting in graduate schoolHow to increase your findability, your discoverability as a young researcherHow building a presence on social media can help your research and your careerProtecting unpublished data when building your online presenceThe importance of tailoring your communications to each specific audience in a talk setting or in a job interview settingThe importance of being authentic in all your communications and interactionsWhat brought Alana to create Science Grad School Coach and how she helps graduate students make the best out of their PhD Thank you, Alana Rister! If you enjoyed this conversation with ALana, let her know by clicking the link below and leaving her a message on Twitter:Send Alana Rister a thank you message on Twitter!Click here to share your key take-away from this interview with David! This episode’s resources: Alana Rister | TwitterAlana Rister | LinkedInScience Grad School Coach | Website You might also like the following episodes: David Giltner – Reconciling the Research and the Development MindsetKrishna Kadiyala – Are things changing for the better for women in STEM?Emily Roberts – Setting yourself up for a healthy financial lifeNatalia Bielczyk – Figuring Out Where You Fit in the Job Market as a PhDAs always, if you find value in Papa PhD and in the content I bring you every week, click on one of the buttons below and send some of that value back to me by becoming a supporter on Patreon or by buying me a coffee :) Now with the added perk of receiving the brand new Papa PhD and PhD Dojo stickers! Support the show on Patreon ! Or buy me a coffee :)