If you didn’t buy your Ph.D. online AND:
1. You attended an accredited school.
2. You read literature and worked with an advisor to choose a research question.
3. You designed experimental tools to help you explore that research question that had NO answers.
4. You performed the experiments.
5. You collected data from the experiments for 5+ years.
6. You read the literature again and tried to make sense of the data.
7. You wrote a 100+ page book explaining the data.
8. You had to defend your narrative and ideas in front of people you probably were a tad scared of.
9. You contributed NEW knowledge to a discipline.
10. Wiped away a tear or two while doing all of this.
Respectfully, you bring more value to the table than you realize.
“But I wish the recruiters would see my value.”
There’s only so much you can do to control other people’s behavior.
But you can get REALLY good at communicating how you are not just someone who did all the above, wore a fancy cap and gown, and walked across a stage.
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