That could be a good scenario where trying to get an internship could be helpful. In addition, just engaging in informational interviews. If you go in either LinkedIn or in different databases through your university, you can find people who graduated, not necessarily from your program but from the university at large, who would be happy to talk to you about their job, what their day-to-day responsibilities are, what they like, what they don't like, what experiences they thought made them particularly qualified for that job. And people would be happy to be having those conversations with you. I've never intentionally declined anyone who was an alumni of my school who wanted to be getting that kind of career advice. That’s another good way.
I think also something I advise students to figure out is what kind of industry career they specifically want. Because I think sometimes in academia, people will talk about industry as this monolith, but different industry jobs can be really different in terms of your day-to-day responsibilities. And the more you have an ideal target, sometimes the more compelling you can be in an interview scenario, when you're then interviewing for jobs, where candidates tend to be less compelling if they're just like, “I don’t know, I want an industry job.” The flip side to that though, is sometimes if you're so picky with what you want, that makes it harder to find something. And so it's about striking a balance and having multiple criteria that you're looking for, being really concrete about that in your own mind, identifying jobs that meet some of those criteria, and then being able to speak to which of the criteria in terms of what you're looking for and in your own career trajectory. The more you're able to be doing that internal, you can only answer those questions, thought process, I think the more successful and purposeful you'll be in your career search.