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No Crystal Ball: What PhDs Need to Know About AI and Work
Chat GPT reaches PhD levels of intelligence!AI threatens to eliminate a hundred million jobs! That’s right people, we’re going there. In this post, we’re biting the fourth-industrial-revolution bullet and talking AI. And frankly, it’s about time. Leaving academia can already feel like a huge decision. ‘What if I hate it? If I do, can I…
From PhD to Consulting: An Insider’s Guide
‘The key is that you are not selling your subject knowledge, you’re selling your methodology.’ – Pierbruno Ricci, author of From Science to Consulting Whenever I talk to PhD researchers one-on-one about career options (which is, well, a LOT of the time…), I often ask them to tell me if they’ve looked at any options…
What does ‘industry’ mean if you’re a humanities PhD?
‘Society needs more, not fewer, people […] who can read, critique, and synthesise complex and competing arguments.’ – Katina L. Rogers, Putting the Humanities PhD to Work When I was coming towards the end of my English Lit PhD in 2011, there was very little ‘academia to industry’ chat happening. Had there been, I envision…
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