Types of Postgraduate Employers

This week's Careers blog post come from LinkHigher and is all about the different types of employer and how they value postgraduate skills. It is almost impossible to generalise about all of the different types of postgraduate employers because of the simple fact that there is no such thing as a ‘conventional postgraduate’. Variations in age, subject areas, work experience, life goals and motivation create an almost infinite number of postgraduate types and that means that the motivations for employing somebody with a Masters or PhD qualification are also massively varied. Perhaps an employer wants somebody with experience using a particular type of instrument; perhaps they want somebody who has worked in academia for a few years; or perhaps they just want somebody who can show they are packing a little extra intellectual muscle. At LinkHigher we are passionate about the v... read more