Best Practices in PhD Alternative Career Professionals

Here’s my October 2011 presentation for Caltech’s Alt/PhD career club. Thank you, Caltech for hosting me as your inaugural speaker for the club!

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PHD Students: How to Ask Your Supervisor for Help

PhD students have to navigate a maze of graduate coursework, identifying their thesis project, and most importantly, establish a productive relationship with their supervisor so that they can “get what they came here for” in a timely manner. Given that supervisors tend to be also be juggling their work load and staff (technicians, postdocs, other [...]

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Thank you, University of Missouri Alternative Career Exploration in the Sciences (ACES)!

I was the seminar speaker for 8/5′s event. The title of my talk was “Overqualified and Underexperienced: Breaking the PhD Job Seeker’s Curse”. We had a wonderful turnout — I suspect many PhDs encounter this curse. Since you’re members of this group you have probably read about this topic in the discussion archives. I presented [...]

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How You Develop “Expertise”

First, You have to decide what “weight” of subject matter versus process-oriented expertise you are looking to develop. Management consultants for example, have a good command of subject matter but they have to be process experts to be able to work with various problems that clients from different industries may present. In this case it’s [...]

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