Who should your department team up with to advise Ph.D. students on industry careers?
Amid a sluggish tenure-track job market, a new career-coaching industry has sprung up to help academics transition to industry. If, as recent studies suggest, fewer than 30 percent of doctoral students will find careers in academe, then broader professional development is fast becoming an ethical imperative. Yet tenured professors are often the least qualified to mentor graduate students on how to apply their doctoral training beyond academe. The most significant thing that graduate programs could do to prepare Ph.D.s for a diversified job market would be to team up with private-sector career coaches.
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