Monday, November 12, 2007
Non transferable skills
I was having a think on the walk to work this morning about all the emphasis on transferable skills that PhD students and research staff are meant to develop during their studies and careers. I'm one of the few people who seem to like, or at least not mind doing courses and stuff, I am definitely the sort of person who learns better from being taught and shown stuff, rather than motivate myself to learn it out of a book or whatever for myself. What I was really thinking about though was that there seems to be a lot less emphasis on courses and learning the skills, background knowledge and theory of whatever the PhD/research is on. I know I have been pretty odd and probably a bit unlucky with the way my research career is panning out, but I can't help but think that I am already pretty well equipped with general personable transferable skill type things and what I am really missing are the skills to make me a better and more knowledgable specialist in my field.
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