Jatinder Vir Yakhmi

Employability for PhD Students in STEM (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

One may have a degree qualification, even a PhD, that too a PhD in a STEM subject, but might still be struggling to get a job. We discuss 'WHY' does it happen, and how to get over that.

Most universities preparing PhDs hardly ever run a career-development course. A small minority of the PhDs produced by them, say 20% might get an academic position, and out of them, too, only half or so might get a tenure. The rest of them would eventually work for industry, where to get a job one needs a skill-set, not taught in academe. Challenges to getting a job and retaining it are only getting bigger in the era of Artificial Intelligence.

We shall discuss three most crucial skills required by STEM PhDs: communicating ably through technical writing; impactful public speaking before peer-audiences, or mixed audiences; and avoiding the trap of a 'single-subject cocoon' by gaining expertise in at least two, if not more, non-overlapping subjects. Besides, a STEM PhD should also stay ahead of the emerging digital technologies by learning to work comfortably with AI and related high-tech tools like big-data, machine learning and chatbots.

Employability of a doctoral candidates will rise if they also work on innovations leading to entrepreneurships and then to jobs. We discuss how to get over the disruptions or even lay-offs in their careers. Finally, we discuss how a STEM PhD can rise through leadership at workplace by gaining visibility through performance and working successfully with a team.

Previous works by JV Yakhmi include 'Superconducting materials and their applications: an interdisciplinary approach' published in Feb 2021 by IOPP.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Institute of Physics Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780750355421
• Artikelnr.: 72252950

Autorenporträt

Prof. Dr. J.V. Yakhmi is a physicist and educator with over 45 years of experience at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), India, before retiring in 2010. At the time of his retirement in 2010, he was Associate Director of the Physics Group, Head of Technical Physics & Prototype Engineering Division, and Program Director for Spectroscopy, Synchrotron and Functional Materials at BARC. Later, from 2012-2016, he served as DAE Raja Ramanna Fellow at the Homi Bhabha National Institute. From 2012-2015, he worked as Chairman, Atomic Energy Education Society, Mumbai.