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Investment Banking for PhDs – Part I
I recently received an email from a ‘banking science’ organisation that had arranged a workshop where practitioners from the financial services industry in London would give an insight into their job....
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Investment Banking for PhDs – Part II
Piotr Karasinski is the global head of quantitative development at HSBC. He was a successful academic before he shifted to Wall Street. Therefore if anyone is able to give some insight into investment...
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Credit Crunch
It appears that the credit crunch will have an impact on job application patterns and for PhDs looking for jobs. This is not particularly good news for final year PhD students who are starting to...
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Statistics in demand
The NYT has an interesting article on the importance and demand of statistics in the internet age. The main theme is that although huge amount of complex data is available, there is a pressing need for...
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Quasi-academic jobs
The Chronicle has an interview of Scott Keeter who after twenty-four years as university faculty member is now working in a think tank The interview dwells on the similarities and differences between...
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Leaving Work to Start a PhD
I made the move from the world of work into a PhD. I tend not to think of myself as a ‘student’ and think of my PhD as a full time job. There are obvious differences between PhD life and work life (at...
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Communicating science
I recently attended a day-long course run by a science society I am a member of. The day itself was very useful in reminding me of why it is so important as a PhD student to communicate to others what...
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Alternative Realities for PhD Graduates
Let me paint a scenario for you. I’m sitting in a room of budding and intelligent PhD students at my home university in Australia, listening to a seasoned academic tell us how to get an academic job....
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