Having good interpersonal skills is essential to having a successful career, especially if you plan to leave academia. During your PhD, it’s important that you don’t neglect your interpersonal skills, you should be making a conscious effort to improve them!
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Time management tips for your PhD.
Tips on how to have good time management throughout your PhD. Stop spreading yourself too thinly, overcome your guilt, and start paying attention to the quality instead of the quantity of your work.
Explaining your PhD to others can be difficult as they don’t always understand what a PhD is. This post breaks down how to explain your PhD in ways that make sense to everyone.
Here are some great strategies to help prevent job search stress from occurring and how to manage it once it does inevitably arrive.
A step-by-step guide on how to create the perfect conference poster.
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What is ‘Industry’?
Industry isn’t always an evil entity. It can provide you the perfect breeding ground to excel, thrive, and achieve new heights.
Teaching during your PhD improves your employability, gives you a break from your own PhD, and can help generate a bit of extra cash.
Data analysis is a key skill for most, if not all PhD students. However, should you learn Python or R?
Broaden your horizons, there are other career paths than consultancy, writing, or non-academic research for PhD students.
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What are my transferable PhD skills?
Here we outline what transferable skills you’ve acquired throughout the course of your PhD and how this applies outside of academia.