A doctoral candidate. Research mainly focused on autonomous weapon systems and the impact of their potential development within law, armed conflict and use of force.
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Hi,
I am a doctoral candidate in the final stages of my studies (finalising my thesis for print and submission at this point). I am looking for advise or maybe a direction on where should I begin from if I wish to pursue a postdoc especially from universities abroad, as my education from my undergrad and doctoral studies has been based in India.
In the last few months I have received rejections from every position/place I applied for. I believe that it is the lack of publications that is putting me behind in all these applications, but I am not sure. I do have some publications, but they are very interdisciplinary in nature, like one or two focus purely on a region based peace or conflict issue, while one or two are based on AI and its use in international law within context of my thesis. I would be happy to share my CV, if that is where the problem persists. So I would like to ask if any of you who were at the final stage of doctoral work, how did you navigate the process of choosing a long term career/short term opportunity to enhance skillset.
Also, another issue that I continually face, and I think is the biggest hurdle when applying abroad is recommendation letter for each and every application. In India the norm is that we as students are supposed to write them, the professor signs it on his letterhead and recommends us. Moreover, I am very hesitant to ask for a reference because of the thought of writing it on my own and then ending up getting rejected, as it is the major thing apart from the CV/SOP that makes or breaks the application. Writing the SOP is already a humongous task, when justifying how one is the best candidate and if we have to recommend ourselves too then I don’t know if one should even apply. How do I navigate this issue, I would like to know whether others write their own recommendation letter too in other places and get it signed by their professors?
Hi,
I am a doctoral candidate in the final stages of my studies (finalising my thesis for print and submission at this point). I am looking for advise or maybe a direction on where should I begin from if I wish to pursue a postdoc especially from universities abroad, as my education from my undergrad and doctoral studies has been based in India.
In the last few months I have received rejections from every position/place I applied for. I believe that it is the lack of publications that is putting me behind in all these applications, but I am not sure. I do have some publications, but they are very interdisciplinary in nature, like one or two focus purely on a region based peace or conflict issue, while one or two are based on AI and its use in international law within context of my thesis. I would be happy to share my CV, if that is where the problem persists. So I would like to ask if any of you who were at the final stage of doctoral work how did you navigate the process of choosing a long term career/short term opportunity to enhance skillset.
Thank you so much for the advice! I will surely look into the Effective Thesis network. :)
Although on the flip side, what do you think is the best skill/aspect of a candidate that stands out to recruiters when recruiting people purely from academia within industry positions?