Lindawati’s research while affiliated with University of Asia and the Pacific and other places

After you get your Ph.D. degree, it is time to find yourself a job. Contrary to what most people believe, Ph.D. graduates do not necessarily work as lecturers or professors in university. Ph.D. graduates can work as a researcher in a private company or become entrepreneur. There are a lot of job options for you. This chapter would help you reveal those options.

This chapter focuses on getting an industry job. If this is your first time trying to find an industry job, you may get a cultural shock. Industry is different than academic. To lessen the shock, tips for preparing your CV, applying for jobs, and interviewing are discussed in this chapter.

This chapter is a bonus chapter that discusses the dissertation reviewers’ point of view when they are reviewing your dissertation. It describes criteria that they evaluate in dissertation proposal stage as well as in dissertation stage.

This chapter is a bonus chapter that discusses the future employer’s point of view when they evaluate your application. Six criteria that are mostly used as evaluation criteria are discussed. These criteria are academic background, skills, industry project experiences, good attitude, able to work independently as well as with a team, and interest to work in the company.

The final last mile of your Ph.D. journey is getting closer. Finally, it is your dissertation defense. You are one step closer to your Ph.D. degree. This chapter would discuss how to prepare your dissertation defense. Your dissertation defense can be an open/public seminar or closed examination or both. This chapter would describe different preparations that you need for different types of dissertation defense.

Industry provides many opportunities for Ph.D. graduates, from a researcher in research laboratory to a manager in business strategy. You just need to find the right industry to go to. It can be the industries related to your research area or other industries where you can apply your technical and non-technical skills. This chapter would discuss about these opportunities.

To increase your acceptance rate, you may want to make your Ph.D. application stands out from the other applications. You may need to spend enough time and effort to prepare your application. This chapter focuses on your preparation to apply for Ph.D. program. Tips and tricks in this chapter would help you to prepare good Ph.D. application documents that would be able to attract the reviewer’s attentions.

This chapter is a bonus chapter that tries to provide the perspective of a professor when reviewing a Ph.D. application. It shares some light on the professor’s point of view in selecting a good candidate to become his Ph.D. student.

This chapter discusses about your dissertation proposal. Writing a dissertation proposal should be done seriously. It is an important document that would be used by your review committee to evaluate your research readiness to complete. The characteristics and main elements of dissertation proposal are described.

This chapter discusses the importance of networking for your success in Ph.D. journey. It describes three networking benefits related to Ph.D. journey: information sharing, opportunities to learn from others’ experiences, and building your reputation. It shows tips to make your networking more effective and efficient.