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  1. What Next After PhD? Decoding Your Life After a PhD

    It is inevitable that your PhD will leave you with an array of skills that are transferable across different sectors. These could be technical skills that are domain-specific and, more importantly, broad skills such as project management, data analysis, and effective communication. Often, it takes a while after a PhD for students to acknowledge ...

  2. What to Do After PhD?

    Cons of Pursuing Postdoc. Despite the impressive benefits, considering the flip side of pursuing a postdoc position is imperative before taking the big decision. 1. No Tenure-track Guarantee. The uncertain career prospects in academia does not guarantee a tenure-track positioneven after completing your postdoc.

  3. What To Do After You Get Your PhD: A Complete Guide

    Once you study and complete a Ph.D., you have expert knowledge in a focused portion of the field. As an expert, you can begin writing publications concerning the industry as an authority in the field. With a Ph.D. credential, it may become easier to gain a following based on your work as a writer. Depending on your industry, publication may be ...

  4. What to Do After Getting Your PhD: 5 Next Steps

    Step 2: Set your Goals. After taking a break, the first thing you need to do is figure out what your goals are. You employed a great deal of discipline to get to this point. Use that skill to determine how you want to move forward. Your doctoral degree is an asset, so try to maximize the return that you get.

  5. Postdocs: The Definitive Guide

    A postdoc is, in fact, a job, and as someone in a postdoc position, you will be considered an 'employee'. And just like any other job, the position will come with its own salary, responsibilities, training and employers. Most postdocs are awarded by universities or research institutes as temporary contracts. However, they can also be ...

  6. PhD Careers

    A PhD in Maths and Computing could benefit jobs in Finance, Investment or Web Development, complimenting skills in logic, problem solving and data. A PhD in the Physical Sciences demonstrates experience with software and data. This could set graduates up to work in Software Engineering, Data Science or even Sound Engineering.

  7. What to do after a PhD (Plus answers to other FAQs)

    As a PhD graduate, you're a specialist in your field. These are some of the sectors in which people with PhDs work: industry: working in private corporations. government: working in research or defence. entrepreneurship: setting up a business office to help clients. academia: teaching at the university level.

  8. After the PhD, What's Next?

    This is often an overwhelming question for freshly minted doctorates. After so many years of tedious laboratory work, your next step seems more crucial than ever. It could determine the direction in which your career heads! Frankly, fresh doctorates in Singapore today have many more choices than ever before. During my own time--I got my PhD a ...

  9. Life After a PhD: What Can You Do?

    In fact, the opposite is true - in completing your PhD, you'll have built a set of skills and knowledge that are highly sought after by many employers. Your CV will show that you're self-motivated, able to work well both within a team and individually, keep to deadlines and can present complex ideas. Highly educated, skilled people are in ...

  10. After a PhD

    Gain valuable insight from our collection of exclusive interviews with both current and past PhD students. Learn from their best advice, personal challenges and career path after completing their doctorate. Learn about life after a PhD, from employability statistics to career prospects. Learn the skills you'll gain and how to apply these to a ...

  11. Career Change After PhD: Why, When, and How?

    With a career change after PhD, it is a bit like changing partners. I f all the signs on Earth and in the sky are telling you that you are in a deeply suboptimal situation, and you feel unhappy or anxious about your future, it is better to admit the truth to yourself and go. After all, you only have one life.

  12. Career paths after a PhD

    During a postdoc you can develop the skills to design, develop, implement and adapt an extensive research project. This can be a project proposed by you or you can support an existing project or research group. The project can be small or large-scale, in which case you will also gain coordination skills. Networking.

  13. I've just finished my PhD, and now I feel lost without academia

    I started my full-time PhD in 2014, and finally graduated this summer after having to extend it for health ... focused on the feelings of sadness and malaise following an intense period of study ...

  14. The PhD Journey

    A PhD typically involves between three and four years of full-time study, culminating in a thesis which makes an original contribution to your field. The process of getting a PhD is made up of quite a few components and milestones, from the literature review and writing up your dissertation right through to the viva examination at the end.

  15. What to Do After Grad School: Your Questions Answered

    The five tips listed below offer links to helpful resources and methods of preparing for the stresses of the job search, life after school, and how to cope with inevitable emotional and professional challenges. Make time for yourself: According to a Harvard study, by the time students enter their final years of graduate school, up to 25 percent ...

  16. Your PhD, what next?

    Of the PhD graduates in employment 15 months after graduation in 2020/21, just over a fifth (21.3%) found work in education - as higher and secondary education teaching professionals. The majority therefore chose to pursue non-academic careers. PhD destinations data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).

  17. After PHD: Career Options, Courses, Colleges, Jobs, Salary

    The salary structure and designation of PhD graduate joining a Research lab or development centre is always higher than that of any other graduates with rich experience. Career Options after PHD ...

  18. Academia or industry? The time after your PhD

    From 61.3 percent of the researchers or PhD students from HEIs and non- university research institutes, only 43.5 percent remain in the PhD studies and make it to the end and get their PhD degree (Figure 1). After getting the degree, this 61.3 percent percentage drops drastically within a couple of years to only 22 percent for the graduates who ...

  19. Where will you go after your PhD/postdoc?

    Troubling changes in PhD employment include a ~50% increase in non-science related occupations (e.g., transportation, culinary field, or construction) to a total of ~22,000 PhDs; and a significant ~1.6 fold increase in unemployment to a total of ~4,000 PhDs (Fig 1) .

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    It's not just for the next 3-5 years that you need for a PhD. If you do a PhD, after you graduate, you'll need to find a job. If you get a job now, you'll already have a job. ... Best compromise is a year as an intern at a placing relevant to your chosen area of study. That way you get the best of both worlds. Your knowledge doesn't stagnate ...

  21. After the MPH, is a PhD next?

    Depending on the program and academic institution, the time from start to finish of a PhD can be between 4 and 6 years. Being a PhD student is a full time 'job' - in addition to coursework, there are often teaching and research expectations. Compared to a MPH program there is a lot of unstructured time in the PhD program as you work on ...

  22. What will be the next qualification after a PhD?

    Najim M.M.M. After the PhD, the holder of it should get more qualified through research. The list of a PhD holders publications, their impacts, citations and relevance in his/her field of ...

  23. 5 routes to getting a Doctorate

    This is the most common means of getting a Doctorate degree. Over the three or four years of research at university, your PhD supervisor will support you as you aim to produce a thesis based on your research proposal. A thesis is typically 60,000-90,000 words in length - although this can vary between institutions.