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Spanish & Portuguese Colloquium: Dr. Chris Eager, "Pursuing a Non-Academic Career
after Grad School"
- Event Type
- Lecture
- Sponsor
- Department of Spanish and Portuguese
- Location
- Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana
- Date
- Sep 5, 2019 4:00 pm
- Speaker
- Dr. Chris Eager, UIUC PhD alumnus; currently Analytics Consultant at CNA Insurance
in Chicago
- Cost
- Free and open to the public.
- Contact
- Carolyn Fornoff
- E-Mail
- cfornoff@illinois.edu
- Views
- 24
Abstract: Navigating the corporate world requires many of the same skills graduate students use every day. In this talk, I'll share my experiences working as a data scientist in the insurance industry after finishing my Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics, and how I made the transition out of academia.