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How to Leave Academia and Find a Good Job

The Academic Life

CHAPTER

How to Reach Out to Former Academics

The likeliest path to getting a job is actually by meeting people rather than just submitting applications into the board. Most people who have a PhD will be viewed as a mid-career hire. And I think almost everybody that I know in consulting ended up getting their job because they just spoke with somebody who was already in it and they had a good conversation.

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