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TOTAL [30] Heard back

TOTAL [16] No Response

Heard back [26] Rejected

Heard back [4] 1st Interview

1st Interview [1] Rejected

1st Interview [3] Multiple Interviews

Multiple Interviews [1] Rejected

Multiple Interviews [1] Taking too long to decide

Multiple Interviews [1] ACCEPTED OFFER

What was your phd in?

Cell and Molecular Biology

My Thesis Research was in a Rare Cancer (Salivary Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma). But I also published papers in a variety of subjects/topics.

You can find the entire list of my publications at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/collections/61619390/?sort=pubdate

Congratulations. Having achieved a PhD in what seems a very specialized field, I am disheartened that it took 46 applications to get there, but the result will make that inconvenience just disappear from memory. I hope you get to take part in something ground-breaking at least once in your career, and make things better for everybody.

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Congrats! CAR-T is a great space to be in. Surprised it took that many applications.

I thought getting a job in 46 applications was pretty good tbh. The tough part about applying for PhD level positions is that that minimum requirement is a PhD. So every applicant has one.

I finished mine about 15 years ago. It was just before pretty much everything went online so job sites weren't hugely popular. Nonetheless, I put my CV on monster.com hoping for job prospects. I think it was only about a day until I got an email with something like "join our team!" in the subject line. I enthusiastically opened the email, dreaming of how high the pay would be with my fancy new PhD.

It was an offer from McDonald's letting my know I could be a manager. Now, there's nothing wrong with McDonald's, I had just hoped for more with an advanced degree.

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Who is upvoting sankeys? They are not interesting, beautiful, original, useful...They are nothing.

This is approximately what my last job search looked like. I have a PhD and six years experience in my field. I had a couple bait and switches, a couple absolute lowball offers, and one offer that after no joke, 8 separate interviews, they offer me the position and tell me that they've reconsidered WFH and expect me to move within 3mo! They compromised to "delay start date by 9 months".

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Job hunting sucks.

How long were you searching?

Damn ur a goat

What type of graph/chart is this? I'm about to start my job search and want to make one. Thanks!

As someone in the field currently, the hardest part is getting your foot in the door. Everybody has a PhD, and there's a bit of mindset retraining for industry.

This sub is just sankeys of people’s job search or budget.

Yeah I hate it too. It’s a waste of space.

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Idk why Companies don't hire students who have masters and PhD in their field

Congratulations, CAR-T is fantastic to work in. I was working in it before switching to policy. Whatever motivates you, it’s hard to be unmotivated by the success CAR-T has had in myeloma

This is great. I mentor a 4th year university student every year and always encourage them to apply for every single grad job they see as it's never enough. Having more offers only gives you choice. But as you've proven, lots of applications lead to very few actual interviews let alone offers. I'm going to share this with them.

It also shows, if you're unemployed, applying for 1 or 2 jobs a day just isn't going to cut it. Treat job searching like a full time job.

When I was in grad school, LinkedIn recommended a similarly prestigious position to me and one of my colleagues:

Walmart greeter. For research engineers, both with experience. We roasted each other pretty thoroughly that day.

this is the second data view of the interview process. What program are you using?

Their payroll ends up being a larger expense. Smarter to pay less if you don’t need a PhD to do the task.