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Your Ph.D. is How Old? You Need Not Apply

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A disturbing trend is cropping up in the Ph.D. job market circuit. Universities are now qualifying that they do not want applicants whose Ph.D.s may be getting “stale.” According to Leiter Reports, there are now some universities asking that people apply only if their Ph.D. has been granted in 2010 or later. This means that those who graduated during the initial collapse of the economy may find themselves without a potential job to apply to.

 

To me, asking that people have a Ph.D. later than 2010 seems to be saying to job applicants that they aren’t worth the bother if say they graduated in 2008 or 2009 if they weren’t employed then, instead of looking at the problem as a holistic one. The reason many graduates didn’t receive job offers is that there weren’t jobs when they graduated. Not only are listings like this ageist, but they also seem to perpetuate the over abundance of unemployment and underemployment for those with advance degrees.

 

If you received a degree and had a difficult time when entering the job market, what would you say if you saw a post like this? Please post your thoughts in the comments.

 

 

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Ronda Bowen

Ronda Bowen is a writer, editor, and independent scholar. She has a Master of Arts in Philosophy from Northern Illinois University and a B.A. in Philosophy, Pre-Graduate Option, Honors in the Major from California State University, Chico. When she is not working on client projects from her editorial consulting business, she is writing a novel. In her free time, she enjoys gourmet cooking, wine, martinis, copious amounts of coffee, reading, watching movies, sewing, crocheting, crafts, hanging out with her husband, and spending time with their teenage son and infant daughter.

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