How to Make Your PhD Work

Thomas R. Coughlin 지음

Wiley 2023년 10월 11일 출간

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How to Make Your PhD Work A modern guide for a challenging modern PhD market The job market for PhDs in science and engineering has become immensely more challenging in the last decade. As of 2022, less than 5% of PhDs attain permanent academic positions, yet books about navigating PhD programs continue to treat permanent academic employment as the assumed norm. Today’s PhDs need tools not only for completing their programs successfully, but for positioning themselves in a varied and competitive job market. How to Make Your PhD Work meets this need, with concrete, empowering advice that takes account of modern job market challenges and opportunities. It cuts through widespread misconceptions about STEM careers and funding, offers tips for navigating difficult degree programs, and supplies current or prospective PhDs with the tools to radically transform their post-degree career prospects. How to Make Your PhD Work readers will also find: Detailed discussion of topics including postdoctoral fellowships, nonacademic careers, success in industry, and more Twelve stories from PhD students who talk about their relationship with their advisor, their success with their project, and their transition into their careers Worksheets and case studies designed to help PhDs map out potential career paths An author with extensive experience of the nonacademic job market and a real understanding of the challenges STEM PhDs face How to Make Your PhD Work is ideal for any STEM PhD student, prospective student, or early career researcher looking to improve their positions in the job market.

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Preface xv Part I You Are Here 1 1 The Twenty-First Century PhD 3 1.1 A Realistic Perspective 3 1.2 The Current PhD Landscape Has Changed 3 1.2.1 Factor #1: A Steady Rise in PhDs 4 1.2.2 Variable #2: The Funding Rates 5 1.2.3 Variable #3: An Unchanged Academic Job Market 7 1.3 The PhD Job Market is Vast 8 1.4 Conclusions 9 References 9 2 The Real PhD Career Landscape 11 2.1 Your Advisor Cannot Be Your Only Guide 11 2.2 PhDs in Nonacademic Careers 11 2.3 PhDs in Specific Careers 12 2.3.1 How Many PhDs are Going In to These Jobs? 12 2.3.2 A PhD, Unemployed? 13 2.4 Self-assessment and Research 14 2.5 Real PhD Career Transition Stories 14 2.5.1 PhDs With Widely Different Experiences 14 2.5.2 Diagnosis of Their PhD 15 2.5.3 Stories Span Many Career Endpoints 15 2.6 Conclusion 16 References 16 3 The PhD Career Feedback Loop 18 3.1 Deciding Your Own Story 18 3.2 An Iterative Process 18 3.3 PhD Career Feedback Loop 18 3.4 Sense and Respond 19 3.5 Commit 100% 20 3.6 Conclusion 20 Reference 21 4 An Objective Assessment of Your PhD or Postdoc 22 4.1 Same Three Letters With Very Different Experiences 22 4.2 Taking the First Step 22 4.3 The PhD and Postdoc House 23 4.4 Advisor, Environment, and Project, in That Order 23 4.5 Afraid of What You Might Find? 25 4.6 Checking How Things Are Going 25 4.6.1 What Do With the Results From the Test 25 4.7 Factor #1: Your Advisor 26 4.7.1 The Importance of Your Advisor 27 4.7.2 Hallmarks of a Good Advisor 27 4.7.3 Hallmarks of a Bad Advisor 27 4.7.4 Advisors Who Lose Tenure 28 4.8 Factor #2: Your Environment 28 4.8.1 Impact of Your Institution and Advisor on the Environment 29 4.8

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저자(글) Thomas R. Coughlin