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Ph.D. Employability: Struggles and Solutions

The Academic Life

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How to Write Out Your PhD as a Job Adviser

In the book, you offer a great exercise for graduates to do as they're getting ready to enter the job market. Try to write down what they do as directions for a grad student who might be replacing them. In doing that, they'll start to see the breadth of skills that they use and the variety of projects that they've worked on. And those things then can really highlight for them what they're good at and what they know how to do in a way that most of us aren't self aware of.

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