Career Perspectives
Obtaining a PhD at Técnico is one of the highest levels of academic achievements, offering a strong foundation for a future successful career both within and beyond academia.
Técnico Doctoral School leverages career perspectives with skills-based training complementary to discipline and research-based. This largely promotes personal development in different competency areas, such as communication, interpersonal development, leadership, personal development, social responsibility, and lecturing. Also, the programme provides the students with an increased networking experience and career exposure given the direct enrolment of different academic, industrial, and public institutions in courses, seminars, and secondments.
The core transferable skills of research, problem-solving, critical thinking, communication, writing, collaboration, teamwork, management, and leadership are highly appreciated and searched for by all employers, providing doctoral graduates at Técnico with almost 100% employability! See further information on General Office for Education and Science Statistics.
Some Técnico PhD alumni remain in academia, whereas others follow different career paths where they further utilize the acquired skills and competencies. Most common career paths are in:
as faculty or in postdoctoral positions.
institutes or laboratories, as researchers.
in areas such as R&D, data science & analytics, product development or management.
strategy and management consulting firms.
companies operating in various engineering fields.
and public institutions.
created by themselves or by former colleagues.
Técnico is currently conducting a survey among recently graduated doctoral students about their career development after completing the PhD. This information will be made available soon.