Timeline for Contacting companies months/one year before graduation
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| Apr 3, 2017 at 16:44 | comment | added | mxyzplk | If you don't graduate, then you have to delay or back out of the job offer, which is sad but that's life. The company wants to lock in the talent first so they expect some attrition. Also, again, companies change research focus but as a new Ph.D they are probably not hiring you for what you know - to be blunt you know some pointless thing you did a thesis on, which will at best be tangentially relevant to your work. | |
| Apr 3, 2017 at 14:16 | comment | added | PagMax | "but anything you're doing now has jack to do with what you'll be doing in a job". That I agree..first hand experience! | |
| Apr 3, 2017 at 13:20 | comment | added | PagMax | "So if you're a year before graduation, you are now prime for recruitment." I am surprised at this comment. I have never seen anyone being hired that soon before the graduation. (may be exceptionally smart ones who are already well known in the community). Secondly, most PhD student cannot tell for sure if they will be graduating one year from now. Lot of things can change in that one year..Finally, these are fast changing times with lot of uncertainty in business and research funding. companies change their research focus and priorities very fast and often times one within one year. | |
| Apr 3, 2017 at 12:39 | history | answered | mxyzplk | CC BY-SA 3.0 |