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For those of you who have the “luxury” of time from active job searching (perhaps you’re currently a PhD student and years away from looking for full time employment), I’m going to suggest a slightly different angle to using LinkedIn outside of job searching or networking (both valid and valuable uses of LinkedIn — only [...]

On an ethical discussion forum, a member brought up a marketing message from a company that boasts about their “Recruiters writing resumes!” and asked if it was ethical for a recruiter to also write a candidate’s resume. Recruiters write resumes as a “value added” (marketing) tool for candidates to want to submit their resumes to [...]

Well, let’s see… here’s why my degrees haven’t made me very “smart” – Because to get my Ph.D. I had to spend 7 years of my life focusing on one specific process* in one specific type of cell** and hope that I made the right call (“gamble”) in my thesis project to get out with [...]

Question: How do I market my doctorate in experimental psychology to a user experience research job? Depending on your target employer, you will need to demonstrate how “generating questions, collecting data, and interpreting user experience data” create a tangible return, or a potential for tangible return, for employers. From there, you will need to create [...]

From my Little Black Book of PhD [alternative] Careering Rules…. Here’s Chapter 1, Step Away from that “Advisor” Little Black Book of PHD Careering Rules(function() { var scribd = document.createElement(“script”); scribd.type = “text/javascript”; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = “/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js?1300910718″; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })();

According to a LinkedIN user poll, of the 5 common interview questions: “Can you tell me a bit about youself?”, “What is your greatest weakness?”, “Why did you leave your last position?”, “What are your salary requirements?”, and “What are your long-term career plans?” the toughest question based on poll vote was “What is your [...]

Here’s a question from Quora about the best way for a math Ph.D. to start a career in a data driven start up and specifically, “What software packages and statistics knowledge are important in the management of large amounts of data?” The answers emphasize the application and applicability of knowledge. I’ve always believed that knowledge [...]

A blog that looks at the reality of graduate school either as a required “stepping stone” to your purported future or, I think is more common in today’s crappy job market, a “procrastination device” to wait out the bad economy. Here’s the caveat: “This blog is an attempt to offer those considering graduate school some [...]

PhD student Karen Colbert has the right idea of what a graduate experience should be about! Notice the term is “graduate experience” versus “graduate education”. We focus way too much on “education” and forget that schools serve up education, life serves up experience. We need to pay attention to both.

This person brought home $66000 last year from writing papers for students that they should have written themselves, in other words, he profits from cheating. I’ve had experience with this type of “service” before, Once upon a time there was a site called “inforocket” (before it got swallowed by another site called keen). People put [...]

My most memorable moment of overcoming catch-22 was when I was applying for a pharma sales job when I was still finishing up my PhD and had no prior pharma sales experience. My resume was very weak considering that my “experience” was mostly as a graduate student, and at the time I didn’t know better [...]