Monday, December 10, 2012

Plan Ph.D. dissertation research with future focus.

Maggie, your humble servant here is a "futurist." In fact, he has designed and teaches two courses on trend forecasting, another way to say future studies. What is crucial for students is to anticipate what will be the hot trends when they graduate, in 3-5 year, and select their dissertation research to align with these emerging trends. This will position them to be the new "go-to" persons in this field. To simply review today, and yesterday, is to handicap your chances for a job and career advancement.

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