Employability for PhD Students in STEM

This invaluable guide discusses how students working for a PhD in STEM subjects, anywhere in the world, can acquire essential skills and tune up to become employable for their dream jobs after graduation. The book will focus on the need to use the PhD years to gain useful skills, particularly multidisciplinary skills and those relating to exponential technologies (such as AI, IoT, machine learning and cybersecurity) to stand out after graduation.

It will also discuss issues that are particularly relevant to the current academic and professional landscape, such as overcoming disruptions to career growth Key skills that will be covered include: writing, public speaking, self-management, risk-management, collaboration, teamwork, conflict resolution, innovation, patents, entrepreneurship, and other important topics such as the importance of joining a reputed lab with a supervisor who is an acknowledged expert, the choice of research topic (keeping in view the importance of it for securing a job), learning to grasp the rhythm and ambience of the research group, growing to be a leader and using every opportunity to build self-confidence and translate it into positive energy for the self and colleagues at work. The situation of jobs and employment of STEM graduates and academics has always posed several challenges. But it has never been in such a flux, because the recent pandemic has turned it upside down. Therefore, there is a keen need for a book that will discuss useful ideas which can provide a direction to PhD students in STEM subjects.

Key Features:

• Discusses how students working for a PhD in STEM subjects can acquire essential skills and tune up to become employable for their dream jobs after graduation

• Focuses on the need to use the PhD years to gain useful skills, particularly multidisciplinary skills and those relating to exponential technologies (such as AI, IoT, machine learning and cybersecurity)

• Discusses issues that are particularly relevant to the current academic and professional landscape, such as overcoming disruptions to career growth

• Covers skills including writing, public speaking, self-management, risk-management, collaboration, teamwork, conflict resolution, innovation and entrepreneurship

• Explains how to grow as a leader and use every opportunity to build self-confidence and translate it into positive energy for the self and colleagues at work