How to get unstuck post-PhD
I have recently completed a PhD in cheminformatics in the UK, and I am trying to get out of academia. Most of the job openings require at least 3 years of post-PhD industrial experience, so there's a bit of a vicious circle.
The industrial collaboration with the funders did not pan out, and the PI insisted that any external communications go through them, so I mostly did my own research without really caring about how 'fashionable' it is and missed out on MD/FEP/co-folding/diffusion methods, which appear to be all the rage these days. I had some experience with distributing my software as a Python package but not as a container
What would be the highest-impact thing I could do to get my foot in the door in the industry? I was thinking of distilling an MLIP into a 2D GNN and deploying it online, but there might be more 'interesting' things for the prospective employers or better ways to distribute it