An interesting new article just published on The Berkeley News Center Website. It begins:
The holy grail for Ph.D. students has traditionally been a professorship at a prestigious university, the reward for years of rigorous research, frugal living and a hard-earned collection of published journal papers. But in a sign of changing times, many Ph.D. students today are looking for jobs outside the halls of higher education, as tenure-track faculty positions at campuses nationwide become scarcer in a tight job market.
Enter “Beyond Academia,” the first career conference at the
University of California, Berkeley, organized solely by Ph.D. students
and postdoctoral fellows, an unlikely group for a non-academic job fair.
The sold-out event — to be held in Berkeley this Friday, March 22 — is a
quiet revolution if one considers the investment of time and money that
goes into grooming a grad student for a tenure-track position.
The holy grail for Ph.D. students has traditionally been a professorship at a prestigious university, the reward for years of rigorous research, frugal living and a hard-earned collection of published journal papers. But in a sign of changing times, many Ph.D. students today are looking for jobs outside the halls of higher education, as tenure-track faculty positions at campuses nationwide become scarcer in a tight job market.
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