Doctorates have traditionally been a pathway to academia, but with the number of PhD courses on offer rapidly outpacing the number of university jobs, a doctorate is no longer the golden key to an academic career, and PhD holders increasingly need to look elsewhere—even if temporarily.
“If you’re not sure that you want an academic career, doing a master’s and then moving into industry rather than jumping straight into a PhD is a sensible course of action for people from any
