Topics: Networking and Job Market Prep - Dr. Truit Gray, Assistant Professor in Management - Schmidthorst College of Business at Bowling Green State University, touches on the networking and preparation for the job market in Oklahoma State's PhD in Management program.
https://go.okstate.edu/graduate-academics/programs/doctoral/business-administration-option-in-manage...
Transcript:
I'm Dr. Truit Gray. okay and where are you at now? I'm at Bowling Green State University up in Ohio. I'm an assistant professor of management here focusing on like organizational behavior.
Like right when you get there, I'd say the faculty again, they're well-known. They're names within the field at this point, and so people recognize them at conferences and I found that just about every faculty at Oklahoma State, if you happen to be right around in the area, like in the atrium of a hotel and they're chatting with faculty at other universities they'll pull you over and say "hey this is one of my you doc students, so and so". They'll introduce you to people and so they're very forthcoming and kind of pulling you in to their networks which are already very well established and expansive. Of course it's still on you to continue to build out those networks and such. But, they can really get you like a foot in the door. Especially like on the methods side community and everything, and again there's faculty at Oklahoma State like Lisa Nikos Bryan, who can really really help connect you with people early on.
Well again, all the faculty were happy to provide input from my application packet materials. It's more than just you know submitting a resume to places. There's a lot of other stuff that has to go with it, so they were really helpful with that. The whole job talk, which you may or may not have heard of, is like a part of the whole thing. Whenever you are going on the market you basically have to present your research to the faculty at other institutions and the faculty at Oklahoma State are very helpful supportive and helping you build out that presentation, practice that presentation, and fine-tune. Give at times, not harsh but very constructive feedback.
Our faculty at Oklahoma State are very good. They do know what they're doing. They can essentially poke holes in your presentation before other people can, whenever you're actually in the interviews. Which is you know, much rather have that happen up front, so you can address it and fix it, clean things up a little bit and make sure that that doesn't happen whenever you're actually out doing the interviewing.
I think very, pretty well prepared about as well as probably can be for the job market. The academic job market it's bizarre. It's unpredictable. It's very competitive, so it was nice to have a good support system within my program.
