At the end of the year, it's important for PhDs to remember the words of Umar here: you can't change your career or life for the better in a silo. Don't allow yourself to get isolated in academia. Don't try to do your job search by yourself, behind a computer screen, just uploading resumes, researching, thinking, considering ...but ultimately making little to no progress. If you have a PhD, you are valuable. Your degree is valuable. You did not make a mistake. Remember, your only problem is academia never taught you how to get hired outside of academia, even though that’s where the majority of PhDs end up. You were never taught how to communicate your value to industry employers. Instead, academia and academic publishers only pushed you to "publish or perish". They kept you isolated in your lab or your department, using you as cheap labor. They wanted to keep you in a silo working for them. This is why they never provided you with any real industry job search training. Yet, the skills you’ve gained are in demand in industry. You’re needed and wanted, just like Umar found out when he changed his strategy and got into his dream industry career. With the right network and strategy, you can get hired into industry too. We want you to win. Make 2024 the year you break free from academia and get into a great industry career.
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13 дек 2023
