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Ph.D. Employability: Struggles and Solutions

The Academic Life

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The Dichotomy of Choosing Between Academic and Industry

The dichotomy that the PhD is training us for academia or it's training for industry. It sets up a dichotomous language of you prepare for academia or you prepare for industry. And I think that's a misnomer because what I explain towards the end of the book chapter is that research shows that the working practices and working structures within academia are becoming closer to those in industry. So undertaking skills training and developing traits and awareness that's useful in industry is also likely to be useful in academia as well.

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