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Ph.D. Employability: Struggles and Solutions

The Academic Life

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The Path to Career Guidance

I knew that careers advice and careers guidance was a thing because I used my career service when I was a graduate student myself. But I didn't move into this work straight away. I think it took me a while, like I was the best way to describe it. Coming straight out of the PhD I actually worked in student recruitment and higher education marketing for a while is my first job. And I just used that job within the university to survey the scene and see what other interesting career routes there were within universities that weren't traditional academia. And career guidance struck me as one of them. So I made the most of the fact that I worked in a university already to make some contacts over in

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