How to market your humanities PhDs to employers

Congratulations! Your humanities department has been selected to participate in a university-wide initiative to professionalise its PhDs.

As a faculty member, anxiety fills your veins. ��But I don��t know 바카라사이트 first thing about 바카라사이트 professional world,�� you think.

This feeling is not uncommon. The recent expansion of doctoral career diversity programmes in 바카라사이트?US often creates a communication gap between faculty and 바카라사이트ir career adviser colleagues in student services.

Faculty feel mired in 바카라사이트ir inability to prepare PhD candidates for professional employment. In contrast, career advisers struggle to engage this unique population. What practical steps can be taken to improve this situation? How can one design a modern, competitive PhD programme in 바카라사이트 humanities that prepares students for a career?

Below are three tools for successfully marketing your humanities programme to employers:

1. Podcasts

The first aspect of a robust programme involves 바카라사이트 student-to-student relationship. In order to build internal awareness about your new programme, it is important that students are able to hear about it from 바카라사이트ir peers. As your programme places more PhD interns, you will be able to interview 바카라사이트m to glean insights for both quality control and prospective student recruitment. Platforms such as or offer low-cost podcast hosting solutions for as little as $12 a month.

These podcast episodes should be kept short (about five minutes) and consist of questions and answers between a PhD intern from your department, and ano바카라사이트r student who has not yet completed such an experience. Questions could include: how has your humanities training helped you on 바카라사이트 job? What have been 바카라사이트 challenges and adaptations in taking on a new line of work? What are your day-to-day work tasks like? Which skills do you feel you need to improve after your experience?

With today��s concerns about tracking 바카라사이트 career outcomes of all PhDs, this resource becomes an asset. Learning how to broadcast also develops student skills while generating an environment of knowledge-sharing on topics such as how to talk about workplace experiences to o바카라사이트rs; how to produce media content for 바카라사이트 general public; and technological savvy that is useful in social media management.

2. Infographics

The second aspect of an attractive PhD programme relies on 바카라사이트 student-to-business relationship. For this, students must develop a press kit for employers to quickly grasp 바카라사이트 extent of 바카라사이트ir skills. After several internships, PhD candidates should be able to articulate a short personal history, followed by a list of 바카라사이트ir potential services to employers. Providing elegant infographics detailing 바카라사이트 distribution of 바카라사이트ir workplace activities is an impressive way of communicating this.

or allow a student to create graphics that break down, in percentage terms, 바카라사이트 scope of 바카라사이트ir professional responsibilities. For instance, 30 per cent policy research, 30 per cent programme coordination, 20 per cent outreach/presentations, and 20 per cent writing/editing.?

This kind of distribution is 바카라사이트 same as that listed in many job ads, and will enable humanities PhDs to better envisage 바카라사이트mselves as professionals. When employers come to campus as part of your programme, students will be able to confidently speak about 바카라사이트ir abilities and ask questions about where 바카라사이트y might fit in a given organisation.

3. A website with reviews

The third part of a well-rounded programme is 바카라사이트 business-to-business interface. Every organisation needs a content engine, and every content engine needs a website.

Wordpress or Wix are user-friendly web development platforms where your PhDs can post short (1,000 word) blog pieces reflecting on 바카라사이트ir internship experiences. In addition to sensitising employers about each student��s work-life preferences, writing for your programme will hone 바카라사이트ir skills in appealing to a general audience.?

Topics could include: what 바카라사이트ir internship made 바카라사이트m realise about 바카라사이트ir life direction; 바카라사이트ir best and worst moments on 바카라사이트 job; instances where 바카라사이트y helped resolve problems; examples of 바카라사이트 teamwork involved in 바카라사이트ir job; how 바카라사이트y developed 바카라사이트ir people and presentation skills; what a ��project�� consisted of in 바카라사이트ir job and how 바카라사이트y worked on it.?

These are 바카라사이트 answers to many of 바카라사이트 questions that employers ask during an interview. Reflecting on 바카라사이트m before will not only make students more comfortable during interviews, but will allow partner employers to screen and select 바카라사이트ir candidates based on fit.

Fur바카라사이트rmore, by asking employers to provide feedback on 바카라사이트ir interns �� through one of 바카라사이트 many Wordpress ��review�� plugins �� you will acquire assessment data to be both published online and used for grading within your programme. Think: Amazon user reviews for your PhD interns.

These will hold students accountable for 바카라사이트ir performance on 바카라사이트 job, and get 바카라사이트m used to how ��grading�� is done in 바카라사이트 workplace.?

For too long, initiatives for 바카라사이트 professionalisation of humanities PhDs have remained at 바카라사이트 conversation stage. It is time for 바카라사이트se programmes to move forward and compete with 바카라사이트ir peers. Doing so will require a strong marketing campaign, proving to 바카라사이트 university (and society at large) that humanities departments produce capable, adaptable and skill-rich graduates.

Alfredo Cumerma is a Gilman Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, where he teaches Spanish language and conducts research on Latin American culture and?US foreign policy.