Every week we scour the Internet to find the best industry transition articles for PhDs, so you don’t have to.
We have two consultants independently search for the most informative articles on networking, CVs/resumes, interviews, transferable skills, academic blues, industry positions, and business acumen.
Our consultants vote on a top article for each category and for a top overall article each week. This week’s best articles are…
Top Overall
*What You Need To Know About Making A Midlife Career Change* – Dawn Papandrea
Networking
TOP The Secrets Of Networking (From The Biggest Networking Pro We Know) – Lily Herman
12 Things Super Networkers Do Differently – Ciara Conlon
3 Ways To Be A Better Listener – Hayden Field
How To Best Help Students With Job Searches – Allyson Hoffman
CVs/Resumes
TOP Skills To Include On Your Resume (With Examples!) – Robert Half
6 Tips To Help You Tailor A Resume To The Job Description – Natalie Severt
4 Tips For Growing Your Résumé When You’re Starting Out – Melanie Forchetti
Skills To Include On Your Resume (With Examples!) – Robert Half
Interviews
TOP Interview Question: “How Do You Handle Failure?” – Alison Doyle
Top 10 Interview Questions And Answers – Calum Coburn
General Interview Advice – Wikijob
50 Content Marketing Interview Questions? – Pratap Sharma
Transferable Skills
TOP Building Growth Mindset In The Classroom: Assignments From Carol Dweck – Sarah D Sparks
Creative – Ian Frazier
Important Employability Skills For Workplace Success – Alison Doyle
What You Need To Know About Making A Midlife Career Change – Dawn Papandrea
Academic Blues
TOP It’s Taken 5 Decades To Get The Ph.D. Her Abusive Professor Denied Her – Nicholas Kristoff
No Paper, No PhD? India Rethinks Graduate Student Policy – Gayathri Vaidyanathan
Advancing Women In Academic Medicine: Progress, Challenges, And Hope For The Future – Darrell G. Kirsch
University Blues – David Bullard
Industry Positions
TOP Reid Hoffman: ‘you Can’t Just Sit On The Sidelines’ – David Gelles
The 3 Reasons Why Most Startups Never Reach 7 Figures Per Year – Troy Osinoff And Michael Lisovetsky
100 Companies Hiring This Week, June 2019 – Monster Staff
This Is What You Need To Do To Get Promoted – Suzy Welch
Business Acumen
TOP New Zealand Wants To Make People Happy, Not Rich – Will It Work? – Ruby Prosser Scully
Too Many Medicines Simply Don’t Work – Peter Coy
Why The Moon Landing Matters, 50 Years Later – David Lidsky
Is Business School Worth It? – Cathaleen Chen
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Isaiah Hankel Ph.D.
Isaiah believes that if you feel stuck somewhere in your life right now, you should make a change. Don’t sit still and wait for the world to tell you what to do. Start a new project. Build your own business. Take action. Experimentation is the best teacher.