The Power of a PhD: How Anyone Can Use Their PhD to Get Hired in Industry

by Isaiah Hankel

What if all your years of hard work in academia finally paid off?

Imagine never having to work in another dead-end academic position, or being able to tell the world you are in a leadership position within a thriving company. PhDs are in demand in industry, but often, these PhDs are invisible to potential employers. Dr. Isaiah Hankel, leverages his expertise as the CEO of the world's largest career training platform for PhDs, Cheeky Scientist, to help PhDs overcome their biggest obscurity. 

The Power of a PhD is the stepwise blueprint that 18 million PhDs worldwide are seeking. Dr. Isaiah Hankel’s eight core steps within The Power of a PhD  



Industry career options for PhDsCommunicating the right skillsWriting industry résumésMastering LinkedIn profilesNetworking and job referralsGenerating informational interviewsAcing industry interviewsNegotiating your salary

This eight-step approach provides a consistent and proven methodology that allows PhDs to transition into industry without suffering the painful process of trial and error.

You could be the next PhD hired at Amazon, Google, Apple, Intel, Dow Chemical, BASF, ERM, Merck, Genentech, Nestle, Hilton, Tesla, Syngenta, Siemens, the CDC, UN or Ford Foundation!

Genres: Nonfiction

356 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 13, 2022

About the author

Dr. Isaiah Hankel is a Fortune 500 consultant, international speaker, and author. His expertise, presentations, and writing focus on helping individuals, teams, and organizations accelerate into the fast-paced, entrepreneurship-driven market. Isaiah combines a scientific approach with a tangible methodology to create a system any individual or company can use to adapt to today’s entrepreneurial mindset.

As a PhD in Anatomy and Cell Biology, Isaiah has worked as a consultant for and spoken in front of leading corporations, including Amgen, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Roche, and Genentech. He has also presented at many of the world's premier academic institutions, including Harvard University, Stanford University, Oxford University, Cambridge University, The Pasteur Institute, and The Curie Institute.

Reviews

[Erica · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great advice on all stages of shifting out of academe and into a professional role that uses a PhD's many skills. While it is focused on profit-making industry jobs, as a history PhD this book is still useful for applying for public sector, nonprofit, editorial, and other career paths.

[Ang · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book to hype ones-self up after the certain depression that falls upon one during and after their phd. Book also has a lot of good tips about job search post phd....

[Julia Napoli · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great 'how to' book on getting into corporate America after coming out of a PhD program. Dr. Hankel neatly organizes this book into appropriate career-planning sections: choosing an industry career path, networking, applying, interviewing, and negotiating a salary. While a bit culty at times towards buying into Hankel's company 'Cheeky Scientist', this book does a great job at decrypting the PhD-to-industry pipeline for those of us that are academia-centric. I will be re-reading again while approaching entering the job market post-grad school.

[Lucy Gould · Rating 5 out of 5]

Even though I don’t have a PhD (and have no intention of working towards one) this book was incredibly helpful in tips on building connections/networking and how to successfully search for jobs.