Careers Outside Academia

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• Authors: UofT Coders
• Research field: Science
• Lesson topic: Discussion on experiences outside an academic career path
• Lesson content URL: https://github.com/UofTCoders/studyGroup/tree/gh-pages/lessons/misc/careers-outside-academia

This is a list of notes and resources that were brought up during our discussion on careers outside academia. I did my best to find appropriate links, but some things might not be accurate. Feel free to add to or modify this list!

Hackathons, coding groups, and places to find them

• Civic Tech Toronto
• Meetup.com
• Hacking Health
• Mozilla Global Sprint (2016 website) - annually in June
• NeurotechX

Professional development, courses, summer schools etc.

• MBA courses at UofT - possibly free for graduate students if taken during registered terms
• Graduate Professional Skills Program at UofT
• RADIANT neurotechnology summer school - Dalhousie University
• Sunnybrook lecture series on medical devices - schedule here
• Mozilla Open Science mentorship program
• HackerYou
• Bitmaker
• Lighthouse Labs
• Insight Data Science Fellowship
• Second degree programs in computer science - UBC, McMaster University, and University of Alberta were mentioned

Ways to “get yourself out there”

• Make a LinkedIn profile and keep it current
• Make a blog - post code, write about your research, etc.
• Contribute to open science on GitHub - some ideas from Mozilla Science Lab
• Recruiting firms, such as Randstad
• DevHub