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savannas9
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Hello all,
I am a new member here and am currently doing my PhD in nanoscience related area. My husband is a successful phd and currently in academia. I joined phd right after my masters, and hence have no industry experience. However, I am keen to enter industry after I graduate. I want some help in reviewing my current profile and would appreciate advice/suggestions on how I can improve it. Those of you are in industry please give me your inputs , and if you have a PhD or hire/ interact/ with physics PhDs, your viewpoint would be very helpful
One thing I'd like to mention : I had my baby last year - meant 4 months of not being productive academically + we had to rush for a family health emergency and be out of country for 2 months -- all of which contributed to some heavy slack in my work. Unfortunately its reflecting as personal ineffeciency in my profile right now,( although I am back with twice the fortitude and willingness to make things happen.. and am determined to make it up in everyway I can)
1. Publications - still working towards my 1st paper.. Is this okay?
So, even though this is my 4th year, I am still working on my first journal article. Very soon, my supervisor will put me on a different project whose publishing prospects I can't predict right now.. So, considering the worst case scenario -- Is it better to graduate quickly with 1 publication or instead work harder (extend visa, add a semester/year ) and publish a couple more ?
2. How can I make myself more 'employable' ?
I honestly feel this is my only area of strength -- I have hands on experience in a decent number of experiment/research tools.. ( AFM, SEM, FIB, Etching, deposition and lithography tools in a Nanofab/cleanroom enviroment, nanomaterial synthesis (nanotube and graphene growth)
3. Will an internship help ? If so, what kind of companies should I look for ?
I am guessing semiconductor and pharmacetuical..but you can probably enlighten/disillusion me better?
4. Programming/Software skills
Barring the C programming course I took back in my undergrad, I don't know any other programming. I always wanted to learn labview, but I don't know how to get started. Does this matter ? and if so, can you suggest what language/package I should get familiar with. I don't mind doing a undergrad course in the area, since we can do that as PhDs, but I'd like to know what would be useful, befor I venture into one. Maybe MATLAB ??
Although I have loved and always love doing physics, currently I feel like a total loser for having typed this pathetic post - but ahead, I will look and see how I can make things work ..
Thanks a lot,
Savvy
I am a new member here and am currently doing my PhD in nanoscience related area. My husband is a successful phd and currently in academia. I joined phd right after my masters, and hence have no industry experience. However, I am keen to enter industry after I graduate. I want some help in reviewing my current profile and would appreciate advice/suggestions on how I can improve it. Those of you are in industry please give me your inputs , and if you have a PhD or hire/ interact/ with physics PhDs, your viewpoint would be very helpful
One thing I'd like to mention : I had my baby last year - meant 4 months of not being productive academically + we had to rush for a family health emergency and be out of country for 2 months -- all of which contributed to some heavy slack in my work. Unfortunately its reflecting as personal ineffeciency in my profile right now,( although I am back with twice the fortitude and willingness to make things happen.. and am determined to make it up in everyway I can)
1. Publications - still working towards my 1st paper.. Is this okay?
So, even though this is my 4th year, I am still working on my first journal article. Very soon, my supervisor will put me on a different project whose publishing prospects I can't predict right now.. So, considering the worst case scenario -- Is it better to graduate quickly with 1 publication or instead work harder (extend visa, add a semester/year ) and publish a couple more ?
2. How can I make myself more 'employable' ?
I honestly feel this is my only area of strength -- I have hands on experience in a decent number of experiment/research tools.. ( AFM, SEM, FIB, Etching, deposition and lithography tools in a Nanofab/cleanroom enviroment, nanomaterial synthesis (nanotube and graphene growth)
3. Will an internship help ? If so, what kind of companies should I look for ?
I am guessing semiconductor and pharmacetuical..but you can probably enlighten/disillusion me better?
4. Programming/Software skills
Barring the C programming course I took back in my undergrad, I don't know any other programming. I always wanted to learn labview, but I don't know how to get started. Does this matter ? and if so, can you suggest what language/package I should get familiar with. I don't mind doing a undergrad course in the area, since we can do that as PhDs, but I'd like to know what would be useful, befor I venture into one. Maybe MATLAB ??
Although I have loved and always love doing physics, currently I feel like a total loser for having typed this pathetic post - but ahead, I will look and see how I can make things work ..
Thanks a lot,
Savvy