{"id":365,"date":"2015-07-13T12:35:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T11:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/?p=365"},"modified":"2025-10-22T15:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:58:11","slug":"should-i-do-a-phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/2015\/07\/13\/should-i-do-a-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Should I do a PhD?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This e-book from the website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jobs.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\">jobs.ac.uk <\/a>has been developed to help all those who are considering undertaking a PhD. The focus is on using career decision-making approaches to assess and prepare for this rather than on the choice of research topic.<\/p>\n<p>Should I do a PhD? includes interactive sections to help track your progress and further resources for additional information. It covers the following topics:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 self-awareness;<br \/>\n\u2022 why you want to undertake a PhD;<br \/>\n\u2022 opportunity awareness;<br \/>\n\u2022 making an informed decision;<br \/>\n\u2022 discovering your career decision-making style;<br \/>\n\u2022 pressures and expectations;<br \/>\n\u2022 preparing for your PhD.<\/p>\n<p>Download here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jobs.ac.uk\/media\/pdf\/careers\/resources\/should-i-do-a-phd.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.jobs.ac.uk\/media\/pdf\/careers\/resources\/should-i-do-a-phd.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Careers Service also has resources on it's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/students\/careers\/find-further-study\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> such as <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/students\/careers\/docs\/apply-for-a-phd.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">How to apply for a PhD<\/a>\u00a0. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This e-book from the website jobs.ac.uk has been developed to help all those who are considering undertaking a PhD. The focus is on using career decision-making approaches to assess and prepare for this rather than on the choice of research...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":383,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[748],"tags":[297],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-postgraduate-study"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/383"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}