WELCOME TO DR. WILLIAM CLARK CONSULTING
Your PhD is not the problem.The translation is.
Helping PhDs and postdocs across Europe land industry roles that match their background, their ambitions, and their worth, typically within 60–90 days.
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60-90 days
Average time from starting the program to first industry offer
10.000 €
Salary increase negotiated by one client in a single conversation
1.200+
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5 clients
Maximum per month. Deliberately capped to maintain quality
Most PhDs don't struggle to get industry jobs because they lack the skills.
They struggle because nobody ever taught them how to make those skills visible to the people doing the hiring.
Years of academic training condition you to communicate one way, to an audience that already shares your context, your vocabulary, your understanding of what the work involves.
Industry hiring works completely differently. The person reading your CV or sitting across from you in an interview doesn't share that context. They need the translation and nobody inside academia ever taught you how to provide it.
That's not a personal failing. It's a structural gap. And it's the gap I help close.
A structured process built around your specific background
The Mastery Program isn't a course you work through alone or a set of templates you fill in with your name. It's a personalised process, built around your field, your target roles, and your timeline, that takes you from academic CV to industry interviews.
Most clients land their first industry role within 60-90 days of starting.
Translate
Your academic experience reframed in industry language: CV, LinkedIn, personal brand, and elevator pitch rebuilt for the audience that's actually making hiring decisions.
Target
Career path mapping that identifies every realistic direction your background could take you: including paths most academics never consider because nobody showed them the map.
Convert
Interview preparation, salary negotiation support, and direct coaching that turns applications into offers and offers into the right starting point for a long career.
What happens when the translation is right
61 days
A materials scientist, unemployed for nearly a year with a visa deadline approaching, landed a Senior Research Engineer role in Austria.
10.000 €
The salary increase one client negotiated in a single conversation, from an initial offer of 65.000 € to a guaranteed 75.000 € in year one.
One week
The time between rebuilding a five-page academic CV into two focused industry pages and receiving the first interview invitation.
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Free Monthly Webinars
Live sessions covering the most common sticking points in the academic-to-industry transition: CV, LinkedIn, interviews, the European market. Free to attend.
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Academic-to-Industry workshops
In-person and online workshops for universities and research institutes. Helping academics see their transferable skills and how they map onto industry.