What Does Industry Actually Feel Like? — 4 PhDs Who Made The Move Share

✨ SPECIAL EDITION FROM THE ALMA.ME CAREERS WEEK 2026 ✨What does industry actually feel like once you get there? In this special panel episode recorded live at the Alma.Me Careers Week 2026, Angela Priest sits down with four Alma.me Job Accelerator Program alumni who recently made the leap from academia into industry. Together they get honest about the mindset shifts, the culture shocks, the unexpected challenges and what they wish they'd known before they started.The panel features Sophia Parks (PhD Toxicology → Project Manager in health tech), Michael Rempe (PhD Applied Mathematics → Senior Advanced Analytics Analyst at Grainger), Emory Richardson (Yale PhD → Data Scientist at PayPal) and Emily Richard (Lead Data Scientist at A-G Associates working with the Department of Veterans Affairs).This is one of the most candid conversations of the Careers Week. Because reading about the transition is one thing and hearing it from people who just lived it is something else entirely.Connect with Elena on LinkedIn and follow along on Instagram and TikTok. For hands-on support in your own transition, check out how Alma.Me can help at www.alma.me 💙