As if one new interview series wasn’t enough for March, we’re now kicking off a second one!

As much as you love research, you may feel like academia is not necessarily your place after all, or maybe you want to mix it with some applied work – but what else is out there? As we’ve seen from our first couple of In The Wild interviews, there are plenty of exciting opportunities for PhDs in the ‘real world’. 

But what does it really feel like to make the leap and go outside the parallel universe that is academia? What’s it like there? What skills does one need? And, most importantly, how does it compare to the academic world?

To answer some of those questions we’re speaking to people who changed gear after finishing their PhDs and moved into the commercial sector. First up we have Paul Litvak from Google – buckle up and read on!

Want to read more? Try these…

• Data science at Google with Paul Litvak
• Introduction to In The Wild
• Advertising guru Rory Sutherland on behavioural economics
• Decision making and advertising with Matthew Willcox
• Behavioural finance with Daniel Egan
• Interview with Richard Thaler