Navigating Career Transitions

Graduating from St. Anne’s and entering the working world outside the Oxford bubble can feel disorienting. Navigating the pressures of finding a new identity, deciding your career and adjusting to life after university can test even the greatest resilience. Ten years after leaving St. Anne’s, two of our alumnae Katie Burgess and Mark Hawley are in conversation, to reflect on their journeys since graduation and offer their thoughts on forging a way through this transition. St Anne’s alumna Dr Susan Doering is moderating.
Katie qualified as a chartered accountant at a Big Four firm before deciding to move out of the corporate world and into the charity sector. For the last 4 years she has worked at the housing and homelessness charity Shelter where she leads financial planning and analysis for the organisation. Mark worked in accountancy & consulting before making his way to Google, where he has spent the last 5 years working in Workforce Planning. He is currently on parental leave following the arrival of his son Maximilian in September, so will soon be finding his balance as a working Dad. Susan has worked as a training facilitator for international organisations and as a career and leadership coach. Her book Smart Career Moves for Smart Women. How to Succeed in Career Transitions was published in 2023 by Routledge.
This event was organised as part of The Young Stanners Society, at the request of our recent graduates for specific career support. If you would like to know more about The Young Stanners Society please visit our website: www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk and do consider joining this valuable alumnae support network.