A PhD-fokozatot szerzettek karrierje a társadalom- és humán tudományokban
Career of PhD doctorates in the Social Sciences and Humanities

Summary/Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of PhD graduation in the social sciences and humanities on the individuals’ career, on the employer and on the broader society. Looking at the international experiences about the career paths of the PhD graduates it is possible to identify two emerging groups: those who pursue an academic career and those who take on jobs outside the academic sphere (e.g. doing research in the business sector or working in non-research related jobs in the private or public sectors). This article also differentiates between these two groups in the analysis of the Hungarian PhD graduates’ career paths and identifies four main types of career mobility among them. The empirical research results analysed in this paper show that the demand of PhD graduates in the academic sphere is fluctuating in Hungary which is the effect of a frequently changing science, technology and innovation policy. The demand for the knowledge of PhD graduates in the non-academic fields, like in the government or the in various economic fields is only increasing very slowly. Further to these, the empirical research has provided a lot of notable details about the career opportunities of Hungarian PhD graduates with a social science or humanities degree and about the internal and external factors of their career choices.

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