{"id":754,"date":"2020-05-29T18:58:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T18:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/?page_id=754"},"modified":"2025-04-16T09:20:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T13:20:51","slug":"potential-careers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/potential-careers\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential Careers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Potential Careers\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Graduates from the M.Sc. or Ph.D. program can pursue career opportunities in academia, health, business\/industry, education or government. Graduates interested in academia can potentially pursue careers as research scientists\/postdoctoral fellows or biologists in universities, Health Canada or the National Research Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students interested in health professions could consider careers (in some cases following further education) in medicine, as a rehabilitation counselor, behavioural therapist, speech-language pathologist, public health officer, neurologist, microbiologist, genetic counselor, biomedical lab technician, health planner\/consultant, toxicologist, or mental health worker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Within business or industry, career paths may include technical writer, pharmaceutical sales, consultant, researcher or analyst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Within education, graduates may find positions in journalism, teaching, as instructors, or as policy developers. Finally, government positions include patent officer, forensic scientist, and management positions within health-related organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To get a better idea of your options, we encourage you to explore <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/career\">Career Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduates from the M.Sc. or Ph.D. program can pursue career opportunities in academia, health, business\/industry, education or government. Graduates interested in academia can potentially pursue careers as research scientists\/postdoctoral fellows or biologists in universities, Health Canada or the National Research Council. Students interested in health professions could consider careers (in some cases following further education) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-754","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6572,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/754\/revisions\/6572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}