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How to Use LinkedIn to Create Your PhD Personal Brand

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 [...]

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Motivating Yourself to Finish Your PhD

There is nothing too spectacular about motivating yourself to do what you’re burning with passion to do. Your feeling interested in pursuing your own ideas is nothing new – most of us have been where you are – we have our own ideas that we can’t wait to wake up and get going about. Therefore, [...]

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Recruiters Writing Candidate Resumes… Dangerous Grounds

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 [...]

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Pros and Cons of a PhD if You’re Not Interested in an Academic Job

Pros of getting a PhD: It’s not going to be the toughest job you’ll ever love, but you’ll learn a good amount of mental toughness from being constantly criticized, second-guessed, grilled about your analysis — and once you’re done with this one student seminar presentation you have to make at least 10 more before you [...]

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