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Something new from VersatilePhD.
We've launched The PhD Founder Brief — weekly global intelligence for doctoral entrepreneurs building ventures from their research.
Free. Here's what it is and why we built it 🧵
The lab bench was just the warm-up.
This week’s PhD Pivot: roles for pharmacology & biomedical PhDs, from medical science liaison to drug safety to NCI. 51.9% of new biomedical PhDs now go to industry, up from 27.5% in 2004.
Go here: career.versatilephd.com/port…
Engineering PhDs: Applied Materials, Boston Dynamics, and Anduril aren't lowering the bar for a doctorate, they're hiring for one.
Apply links in this week's PhD Pivot: career.versatilephd.com/port…
#PhD #AcademicJobs #Engineering
A literature PhD is worth $245–280/hour right now.
That's what one AI company pays humanities PhDs to evaluate how AI systems reason and write.
This week's PhD Pivot: where English & Humanities PhDs are landing outside academia. 👇
career.versatilephd.com/port…
#PhDCareers
Anthropology PhDs: Google, Netflix, and U.S. Special Operations Command aren't lowering the bar for a doctorate, they're hiring for one.
Open roles for impact, in this week's PhD Pivot: [link]
Read it here: career.versatilephd.com/port…
#PhD #AcademicJobs #Anthropology
Linguistics PhDs: Apple, Spotify, and Duolingo aren't lowering the bar for a doctorate, they're hiring aggressively.
Major open roles in this week's PhD Pivo: career.versatilephd.com/port…
#PhD #AcademicJobs #Linguistics
Neuroscience PhDs: Flagship Pioneering, Ōura, and Anthropic aren't lowering the bar for a PhD, they're hiring one.
Plentiful open roles, apply now in this week's PhD Pivot 👉 career.versatilephd.com
#PhD #AcademicJobs #Neuroscience
Education PhDs: Duolingo, ETS, and the US Dept of Education aren't lowering the bar for a doctorate, they're requiring it.
Open roles, apply links in this week's PhD Pivot: career.versatilephd.com/
#PhD #AcademicJobs #EdTech
Environmental science PhDs have broad application. Our #PhDPivot this week provides a brief representative positions at Amazon, Google, Verisk, USAA, EDF & more, where a PhD is the job requirement.
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Name a non-academic job that requires a political science PhD.
Here are ten.
Think tanks. Tech policy. Intelligence. International development. The credential travels further than most programs let on.
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"Name one non-academic job that requires a sociology PhD."
Here are eight.
This week's PhD Pivot at Career Lab: career.versatilephd.com/
Neither the VC's counsel nor the TTO's counsel will flag the conflicts between your university license and your investor term sheet. Not because they don't care. Because nobody asks them to look.
This week's PhD Founder Brief. Link below.
The pharma hiring recovery is real. It's just not happening at the bench.
This week's PhD Pivot covers the regulatory, medical affairs, and health economics roles.
AbbVie. AstraZeneca. Biogen. Pfizer. Sana Biotechnology.
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After 12 issues of the PhD Founder Brief, we've created the Evidence-Based Venture Framework — and PROVE sequence.
P — Positioning
R — Resources
O — Operation Proof
V — Value Protection
E — Entity Structure
More here and link in the comments.
edunomix.com/framework
Most PhD founders treat regulatory work as something separate from building a company.
It isn't. It's a funding strategy. This week's PhD Founder Brief covers why, with two live advisory cases in medtech and deep tech energy.
Link below.
Does cybersecurity feel like a world that was built for someone else? It wasn't.
This week's PhD Pivot maps the research, governance, and threat intelligence roles and who's actively hiring for it right now.
career.versatilephd.com
Psychology PhD. Two paths right now:
Join the company building the platform
Build the platform
This week's PhD Pivot covers both.
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AI labs are posting PhD-required research roles right now.
TikTok. Johns Hopkins APL. Amazon. Morgan Stanley. D.E. Shaw.
The frontier moved out of universities. It still wants people trained to work at the edge.
This week's PhD Pivot → career.versatilephd.com
