How is LinkedIn to move a functional course after the doctorate

When a PhD in 2018, I believed that LinkedIn was only for businessmen – dehydration and companies dominated by people who boast of their recent achievements. I couldn’t imagine that time. But by the end of the doctorate in 2023, the networking site opened doors that I did not even know its existence. So what has changed?

During his doctorate at the Carolinska Institute in Stockholm, it helped organize job events for doctoral students, and invite speakers who moved to jobs outside the academic circles.

I did so because I saw many wonderful scientists leaving the academic circles not because they were not good enough, but because they were exhausted or felt unintentionally. But when they tried to leave, there were no instructions or a road map.

I realized that if I care a lot about this problem, I may have to do something about it, so I founded a company to provide a better support system.

Building a company means building communications, and I was repeatedly said to me: “Without a network, you will not reach anywhere.” So I started looking for one – and so I ended up LinkedIn.

I felt a little frightening at first – a global platform that includes one billion users, but with an open structure, anyone can interact with anyone. I started using LinkedIn to find the founders of other companies and similar people to think. One of these was Angela Prest, the director of employment with two decades experience in building high -performance teams in the industry. We met online and both knew immediately that we were a great match. We shared professional values, leadership and a deep desire to improve matters.

Share us in establishing Pain In 2024, our mission is to provide researchers early with the tools and knowledge they need to get a job in the industry quickly. We do this mainly by proposing improvements to industry CVS, preparing the interview, individual training, and directing doctoral graduates on how to market themselves effectively to the business audience.

Alma.me was established to open the adjacent door. This brought me back to the Carolinska Institute and its President for PhD Education, Robert (Bob) Harris, who put my doctor’s hat on my head during the doctoral graduation ceremony six months ago – a huge moment for me. I remember I was thinking: “This is the man I need to talk to.” He is responsible for doctoral education, so I knew that I needed him to understand how important it is to prepare the profession for new graduates.

But how do you reach a person like him as soon as he leaves the university? The answer was through LinkedIn. I started commenting on a few of his posts, and eventually suggested the chatting on coffee.

That conversation changed everything. Bob agreed with the mission of Alma. He really cares about students. Thanks to him, Alma.ME now offers a vocational development course-approved by the European-Karolinska-in Karolinska system, something that I never imagined will be possible.

At this stage, I had already achieved some important goals: the launch of a company with Angela, and to provide services to help doctoral students to move to jobs and include our course at a prominent medical university.

But I did not stop there. Bob participated in us to see something bigger. Job development was part of the mystery, but we knew that there was more improvement. The question was: How can a throat or two votes make a difference? We have imagined a global group of people who wanted to rethink the academic ecosystems. So we turned into our networks – especially LinkedIn – almost magic, we started finding it.

thus Academic Thought Tank (Tatt) He was born earlier this year. Tatt collects a selection of researchers, teachers and businessmen from all corners of the world with a common vision to rethink what Academia 2.0 may seem to be: comprehensive, sustainable and human.

We met five of our ten members through LinkedIn. It was a simple selection standard: you have to care. You have to want to improve things and strongly want to make a change for people in the system. Our members extend to the world – from Texas to Osaka, Japan. I never could meet these people in real life, but LinkedIn made it easy.