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Ask Slashdot: Finding a Job After Completing Computer Science Ph.D?
An anonymous reader writes I recently completed my PhD in computer science and hit the job market. I did not think I would have difficulty finding a job esp. with a PhD in computer science but I have had no luck so far in the four months I have been looking. Online resume submittals get no response and there is no way to contact anybody. When I do manage to get a technical interview, it is either 'not a good match' after I do the interviews or get rejected after an overly technical question like listing all the container classes in STL from the top of my head. I had worked as a C++ software developer before my PhD but in the past 6 years, software development landscape has changed quite a bit. What am I doing wrong? Has software development changed so much in the last 6 years I was in school or is my job hunting strategy completely wrong? (The PhD was on a very technical topic that has very little practical application and so working on it does not seem to count as experience.)
There's the solution: Pose as a $1500/mo. Indian PhD. Practice the accent.
Table-ized A.I.
Tell them you were in rehab for heroin addiction for those six years. It's more acceptable.
"12 days clean, praise Jesus!"
He's looking for a job in IT, not running for Mayor of Toronto.
How do you then explain the 6 year gap in your resume?
You could say that for the last six years you were a volunteer jihadi for ISIS. That would be bad, but it would cover the gap, and would not be as bad as admitting that you have a PhD.
A non-tenured adjunct lecturer became President of the USA, so there's that, too.
Openings are rare, though.
Absolutely right! There is nothing like making the interviewer wonder if you'd kinda blow up the building after a bad performance review to shake loose that offer letter.