Melissa Ptok is a Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour graduate from McMaster University. In the span of her PhD, Ptok took on a few roles with a consulting firm and an online information technology company. Ptok’s journey using her ever-growing toolkit of skills and credentials in non-academic settings helped her bridge the gap between academic research and industry, leading to her current position at Rogers Communications as a senior research consultant. Learn about how Ptok marketed herself using the skills she acquired in academia and applied them to build her career at this McMaster Women in Science and Engineering Initiative (WISE) event.