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  1. I got my PhD and I am still unemployed. : r/PhD

    r/PhD. A subreddit dedicated to PhDs. MembersOnline. •. samoooo37. I got my PhD and I am still unemployed. Post-PhD. Basically as the title says, I am a fairly recent PhD grad (May 2021) and have no job prospects and I am still unemployed. My partner just got a fantastic job offer where we will be relocating to a new state.

  2. I am 30. I just got a fucking PhD and I am unemployed. : r/IAmA

    Basically, my life sucks!! I am 30. I just got a fucking PhD and I am unemployed. I can't find a job. In academia, you got to know people and people got to know you!!! and besides the opportunities are so infrequent that you got to wait 6 months for one to pop up. Industry, The tell me I don't have the work experience.

  3. What does it feel like to be an unemployed Ph.D? : r/AskAcademia

    Getting my PhD was basically the project of my 20s, and the adult I've become is totally inseparable from my academic work. Even if I never get a permanent position in or near academia it was worth it. Earning a PhD is hard, and there's a lot of bullshit, but it's also an amazing, transformative experience.

  4. I wasted six years of my life getting a PhD degree. What should I do

    I have 5 years of unemployment in my résumé, an unfinished PhD, a tiny professional network, and ongoing health problems which make many things impossible. But I'm living again. Some people have been in prison for 10 years. Some have escaped war-torn countries. Some have recovered from drugs or alcoholism.

  5. Is a PhD student working at a lab employed or unemployed?

    They're asking me what my job is but i keep on saying im still doing my phd and currently doing intern. But that seems to be a lengthy way of... jump to content. my subreddits. edit subscriptions. popular-all-random-users | AskReddit-pics-funny-movies-gaming-worldnews-news-todayilearned-nottheonion-explainlikeimfive

  6. What's a reasonable length of unemployment after finishing my PhD?

    After finishing my PhD i had a six month contact with the lab next door to my PhD lab. I was unemployed for a year after finishing that, very much like you i published two papers (and a textbook chapter) during that time. I kept up with the field, keeping in contact with the lab i had a six month position with.

  7. Does being unemployed after a PhD reflect poorly on my advisor?

    The simple answer is that he is looking out for my best interests, but I'm his first PhD student and he is up for tenure this fall. Does my unemployment negatively affect his tenure application, or am I over-thinking this? ... though his connections are, perhaps, not the ones you need now. Your unemployment might be due to any of several other ...

  8. how long have you been unemployed after finishing PhD? : r/PhD

    I am a high energy particle physics (Experimentalist) PhD graduated in the end of July 2022. Since then I have been applying for jobs like software engineer, data scientist, semiconductor related engineering, etc. It's been almost two months and I still don't receive offers. I had couple interviews (applied ~150, probably ~8 interviews), some ...

  9. What Is your PhD Worth? The Value of a PhD for Finding Employment

    Is getting a PhD a good guarantor of finding employment outside academia? For example, the unemployment rate of PhD holders in France still on average 9.2% three years after completion. 1 1 Compared to 14.7% one year after the viva. See Experimental survey IPDoc 2017 (MESRI-SIES) concerning graduates in France in 2014, looking at all ...

  10. The Myth of the Unemployed College Grad

    The new-graduate and all-worker unemployment rates have been moving pretty much in lockstep, within a percentage point of each other, for the past 10 years. As of September, the unemployment rate ...

  11. Key facts about U.S. college graduates

    In February 2020, just before the COVID-19 outbreak began in the U.S., only 1.9% of college graduates ages 25 and older were unemployed, compared with 3.1% of workers who completed some college but not a four-year degree, and 3.7% of workers with only a high school diploma. By June 2020, after the pandemic hit, 6.8% of college grads, 10.8% of ...

  12. Don't Become Another Unemployed PhD

    Become an Entrepreneur. One option for unemployed PhDs is to reach into the wealth of knowledge and skill you've gained and start a business. You've proved to yourself that you have the vision, fortitude, and self-discipline to finish your degree, and those same skills lend themselves to self-employment.

  13. What to enter for "current situation" in PhD application if one is

    I am applying for a PhD program, in one of section they ask about my Current situation (professional/academic. I finished my master and now I do not have job and just applying for PhD and writing my ... The unemployed are clearly lazy people who drink beer all day and watch sports compulsively. But job seekers are proactive. - Quora Feans ...

  14. Apply These 7 Tips to Your Unemployment Depression

    Unemployment rate rises to record high 14.7 percent in April 2020. ... PhD. Low energy is a common symptoms of depression. If depression is negatively affecting your energy levels, these six tips ...

  15. Is anyone unemployed after PhD? : r/AskAcademia

    The unemployment rate for PhDs is now .9% whereas it is 2% for college graduates, 2.9% for Associates, 4% for high school grads, 4.8% for less than high school. Earnings follow a similar trajectory with graduate degree holders having higher salaries than those with less education.

  16. The Crisis of Unemployed College Graduates

    The Crisis of Unemployed College Graduates. Colleges must help prepare the class of 2021 to navigate the worst job market in decades. By. Jeffrey Selingo. and. Matt Sigelman. Feb. 4, 2021 10:55 am ...

  17. Why Can't College Grads Find Jobs? Here Are Some Theories

    At first blush, stories like York's seem like outliers, since the unemployment rate is still pretty low — 3.9 percent in April. But a report this week by Elsie Peng, an economist at Goldman ...

  18. What is the likelihood of a PhD-holder from the USA remaining unemployed?

    UR = UE / LF. (UR is Unemployment Rate, UE is number of people UnEmployed, LF is the number of people in the Labour Force [working or seeking work].) So for the 752,000 U.S. trained PhD graduates considered, the NSF estimated an unemployment rate of 1.7205% in 2008. This is compared with a U.S. unemployment rate of ~6% in mid-2008.

  19. What is the logic behind an unemployed PhD being "stale goods ...

    Society isn't logical. If you're getting repeat rejections you're best doing some thinking out of the box. Getting a PhD, the expectations are quite high, from peers, family members, even from yourself. Being called "stale goods on the market" isn't very nice, also, your PhD will never ever be worth nothing.

  20. Labour market perspectives for PhD graduates in Europe

    The average unemployment rate for doctorate holders (at 2%) was roughly three percentage points lower than that for other tertiary level graduates, with highest shares of unemployed PhD holders in humanities and natural sciences (OECD CDH, 2013).

  21. Unemployed with a PhD : r/PhD

    Newly qualified PhD without industry experience are usually employed as Scientists or Research Scientists in biotech, but that's obviously subject to the candidate and company. You also need to write a proper cover letter and CV. Applying to 5 good jobs properly is better than 20 bad jobs badly.

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