Watch Out, MBAs! Ph.D.s Are After Your Jobs

By Erin Zlomek. Els van der Helm tried to sign up for a corporate recruiting event through the University of California at Berkeley’s business school last year, but she was turned away. “I got the response, ‘Oh, actually this is just for the MBAs,’ which makes sense,” says Van der Helm, who graduated from Berkeley last May with a Ph.D. in psychology and now works as a junior associate for McKinsey. The MBAs “pay a lot of money to get their time with the recruiters,” she says. “Everything is very nicely laid out for them. For Ph.D.s, it’s not.”
Van der Helm and some of her classmates organized Berkeley’s first career conference last year for Ph.D.s looking for jobs outside of academia. More...