One-Day Course Offered to Help Transition to Industry 
I am going to attend the annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) in San Diego in December. ASCB is partnering with Keck Graduate Institute and Biocom to offer a one-day mini-course designed to help basic scientists become more competitive for jobs in industry. The short course, “Managing Science in the Biotech Industry,” will be held in San Diego on December 11, 2015—the day before the ASCB Annual Meeting and is specifically designed for graduate students and postdocs.
I will graduate with my PhD next year and plan to transition into the biotech or pharma industry rather than pursuing an academic career. I hope this mini-course can help me to get insight into what industry expects from their job applicants and how I should present myself to have better chances of finding a position. In addition, it is a great opportunity to network with people in industry, which is often impossible when attending scientific meeting where the majority works in academic settings.
I already registered for the course and paid the registration fee of $ 125 by myself.

http://www.ascb.org/mini-course/