Intro
Contents
Introduction: Surveying the Landscape of Industry Jobs
Career Paths
Advice for Nonacademic Job Success
Part I: Career Paths
Data Science Needs You, Social Scientist
Research Data Science as a Profession
Understand the Subdisciplines of Data Science and Find Your Best Fit
Tell Your Story Clearly and as Often as You Can
Show Them Who You Are as a Technician and as Their Potential Teammate
Understand Who Is Hiring and Why
Conclusion
How to Thrive in the Data Industry Without a Traditional STEM Background
What Is Ethnography?

Shipping Value
Trust in the Model
Trust in the Data
Trust in the Problem
Play to Your Strengths
Alt-Academic Career Paths
What My Career Looks Like Now
How to Become a Faculty Developer
From the Academy to Tech Startups: Considerations and Opportunities
My Own Academic-to-Startup Transition
Dimensions of Startup Jobs to Pay Attention to When Applying
Expert Versus Beginner
Short Term Versus Long Term
Implementation Versus Development
Services Versus Products
Hierarchical Versus Holacratic
Practical Questions

Lastly, What About Starting Your Own Company?
Opportunities and Pathways in Survey Research
My Pathway
What Does Survey Research Consist of?
What Are the Opportunities for Survey Researchers, and Who Hires Them?
Government and Contractors
Private Sector
Nonprofit Sector: Including Policy and Advocacy
Politics and Elections
Miscellaneous Other Possibilities
What It Looks Like to Work in Survey Research
How to Learn Survey Research?
Marketing Research with a PhD in Sociology
Academic Frustrations
Industry Hopes
Starting

Relevant Skills and Things I Needed to Relearn
Presentation Matters
Writing and Communicating
Roles
External
Internal
Lifestyle
The Road Back to Academia
Teaching and Administration
In Closing
Say Yes to Cultivating Your Future
All Skills Are Transferable
Doing Good for Others
Pivot to Market Research
Being Your Own Boss
Embrace an Unfamiliar Culture
An Introvert in an Extravert's World
Own Your Career
The PhD Stigma
Working in Government
So You Want to Make a Difference
Getting In
Your Model's Worth
Handling Risk
The Way Up

Working in Government Does Not Make You an Angel
More Resources
Working in Quasi-Governmental Research
Introduction
What Is an FFRDC
Pasteur's Quadrant
The Observer Monkey
Daily Life in an FFRDC
Measures of Performance
Proudly "Disinterested": Public Administration and Social Science PhD Programs
A Road That Weaves In and Out of Academia?
Tertiary Education in Australia and the PhD Pathway
Leveraging Skills and Developing Skills
The Career Toll Bridge
What Comes Next? Post-PhD Choices for Daniel and Mark
References