WP2_CPD - Facilitating transition to non-HEP Career
Abstract - Facilitating transition to non-HEP Career
ABSTRACT: About two-third of HEP PhDs establish careers outside academia in area like software, data science, finance, healthcare, journalism, and NGOs. Skills and knowledge developed during HEP research have been long sought after, like complex problem solving, programming, data analysis, math, statistics and scientific publishing. With increasing mobility to industry, ways should be developed to make this transition smooth. Creating targeted internships with National Lab partners in areas of Accelerator Technology, Computer and Information Science, Detector and Engineering Technology, Environment and Safety and Radiation Therapies would facilitate the training process. However, many of the postdocs and students are not based at the National labs that have broader access to the above opportunities. A direct involvement from supervisor and mentors in planning the career early on, based on the interest, is key to the success. A commensurate effort in job search process is essential. A centralised way of Networking with the HEP alumni would strengthen the job search, skill matching and hiring process and might require tools and portals to be developed and supported. The goal of this paper is to identify ways to achieve proposed ideas.