The employment destination after doctoral graduation.

The employment opportunities of general doctors can be roughly divided into tenured professors, large companies, scientific research institutions, government agencies and so on.

0 1 tenured professor

The most typical way out after completing a doctorate is to be a teacher at school, especially a tenured professor. If you do well, you can become a tenured professor after six years, without worrying about unemployment.

It was not easy before becoming a tenured professor. I have to attend many classes and answer some undergraduate questions. It is estimated that I will delete the ceramic letters of international students for a while every day. At the same time, it is necessary to write a proposal to apply for funds to take students to do research and write papers. In a few schools, tenured professors may be more difficult to obtain, for example, recruiting three assistant professors, but leaving only one after six years. This kind of school is generally a top school and will be very tired. But most schools will help you improve according to the feedback, and the ultimate goal is to keep you, not to drive you away after six years.

In addition, every summer vacation has a three-month holiday, and some teachers will naturally use this time to do scientific research well, otherwise they will travel abroad or return to China for a short time and live happily. After getting tenure, scientific research will not be a hard requirement.

02 big company

Some people don't want to stay in academia after finishing their Ph.D., and they can't find a good professorship, so they choose to go to the company. Ph.D. graduates are not as easy to find jobs as masters, but as long as they find jobs, their salaries are generally higher than those of masters. Doctoral students have their own small direction of in-depth research. Generally, after the first 65,438+0-2 years, people tend to concentrate on small-scale research, and some people's theoretical research may be overqualified in the eyes of the industry. It is important to choose a stable and promising company. In some large enterprises, doctors can give full play to their research talents. There are a few leading technology companies in China, which need to rely on cutting-edge technology research and international vision to support their enterprises to be invincible for a long time. These companies are often willing to pay high salaries, but they also have high requirements for doctors. If you are not a returnee or a doctor from a prestigious school, there will be no interview opportunity. Most of these enterprises are foreign-funded enterprises and sino-foreign joint ventures.

03 scientific research institutions

In the company, it is generally to do application development, not scientific research. However, in a few companies, there are also excellent research laboratories, such as IBM TJ Watson, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard. They hired a group of scientific research professionals to carry out scientific research and improve the company's technology and R&D level. Microsoft has several winners of ACM Turing Award.

Generally speaking, it is the dream of many doctors to find a well-paid doctoral job and continue to do what doctors should do, that is, do scientific research and publish papers, but it is still very difficult to achieve.

04 government scientific research institutions

The biggest advantage of this kind of work is good welfare and stability. A friend who majored in public health went to the Food and Drug Administration after graduation, but this friend was a doctoral student in a cattle school with a strong background and good communication skills, and finally went.

05 development

Another way out for a doctor is to start a business. For most inexperienced college graduates, the success rate of starting a business is very low, but the success rate of doctoral degree is very high. Because doctors can consider transforming their own scientific research projects or foreign technical skills into products and services, get to know mentors with rich enterprise resources, and help them succeed in starting a business with the help of mentors.

Therefore, before studying PhD, you must be clear about your chosen major, future career direction, which enterprises will attach importance to doctoral recruitment and the number of recruits each year.

The above is the future prospect of doctoral employment, I hope it will help you!