Turning Your Thesis Into a Career-Boosting Publication.

 Turn Your thesis into a Career-Enhancing Publication Finishing a thesis represents a huge accomplishment: the culmination of many years spent reading, researching, writing, and solving problems in the pursuit of original work on a particular topic. After completing a degree, however, most people move on, largely unaware that the work they’ve done can offer a significant boost to their future careers, provided that they consider how best to get it published. The most effective strategy to extend the impact of a thesis is to get it published The research work undertaken for a thesis is typically only read within a small group of individuals, usually within your university.

Upon the awarding of a degree, theses normally remain within the confines of university repositories or libraries.

There is no inherent need, however, for a thesis to rest as a solitary document of academic accomplishment, instead it could be used as a career-enhancing publication. One of the surest methods of making your thesis carry more weight outside the confines of academia is for it to be published. The transition From private to professional For many people working in academia, a thesis is simply the concluding piece for their degree – it serves as an academic document which gets submitted at the end of a degree, is graded, and then either put in the archives or made publicly available via your university’s repository. Your thesis does not need to remain an exclusively academic tool.

A thesis can also transform from an academic document into a professional credential with the correct publishing strategy.

How publication increases impact in four different ways As an early career academic or researcher, thesis publication can boost your profile The completion of a thesis is the demonstration that you are capable of undertaking independent work of a substantial nature, of engaging deeply in a specialized field, and developing conclusions that offer an original contribution to current understanding. Whether this applies to your career in a broader sense – an in a post-doctoral, fellowship, or academic, post-PhD, or industry, this type of credential should not be undervalued. By publishing your thesis, you can immediately add another feather to your academic or career cap that displays evidence of high-level academic writing and the ability to take a complex idea from inception to conclusion.

Increases Credibility Credibility can be the defining feature in both the academic and employment spheres, particularly at early career stage. At many universities and other higher education institutions, qualifications can only go so far when it comes to identifying worthy candidates for PhD programmes, for example, or for further study. If employers and institutions find evidence of genuine intellectual and scholarly achievement, their decisions are likely to be better-informed.

Publishing a thesis certainly represents this kind of evidence and demonstrates not only that an applicant has done a significant amount of work but also that the thesis has the potential to resonate beyond a university environment.

Enhances Visibility One significant difficulty with not publishing a thesis is that it can get lost, with a large number of academic theses often disappearing without a trace in the university archives. This is the case when there are limited numbers of copies and there’s the additional issue that access to thesis repositories varies significantly among universities. The increased visibility a published thesis offers will lead to it being searched for and found in academic search engines, making it more widely accessible and increasing the chances of being cited, for example. Founds a Research Portfolio It can be the start of developing an academic portfolio Many students and researchers consider their thesis as ‘the end product’ of their studies.

Often, a thesis can mark the beginning of a larger portfolio of published academic output, the publication of a thesis on a chosen topic often providing the starting block for future articles or books to be developed.

Turning Your thesis into a Career-Enhancing Publication The Importance of Making Your Thesis Visible In both the academic and commercial realms, your thesis is one of the most effective tools available in demonstrating a depth of expertise, originality and professional accomplishment. Finishing a thesis is a huge accomplishment that many researchers either treat as the concluding part of their degree, or discard entirely in pursuit of the next career goal, thus missing out on what has been an expensive investment of time, money and effort. For example, if your degree is one that takes some of your time as the author of a publication as part of the degree course then the potential for making more use of your thesis can arise if your work contains publishable material.

However even if this is not part of the degree course, there is nothing to stop a published author in a professional career or a young scientist embarking on that path after graduation, publishing work as a result of a research that’s written down as a thesis.

It may require a significant amount of work on the authors part to translate an academic document, but, when it comes to it, these have long-lasting benefits that, in the vast majority of cases, will go beyond the university archives.

Why publish a thesis?

In academia, career prospects can seem bleak when the field is competitive and resources can be tight. Yet, an increasingly important asset that students can rely upon as an academic resource, that shows a certain degree of initiative and intelligence, is the ability to engage with a broader community through a piece of work that has been effectively peer-reviewed.

A publishable piece of research in a specialized field not only displays such an ability, but also goes a significant way toward confirming it.

So what are some the other ways in which your thesis can improve career opportunities? By contributing to greater clarity. As the researcher responsible for a thesis on a given topic, you are positioned, uniquely, to contribute to clarity of knowledge in a specialized area of interest, since you would have invested far more time in reading about, and engaging with, this particular topic than anyone else, you should also be able to make a very useful and succinct summary of knowledge in your specialized area.

As your career in academic or another profession develops and advances, then an ever clearer sense of how to approach your work may be needed; by making your thesis available as a resource for other people to consult and review, the contribution made by this new knowledge to your overall level of understanding and to the understanding of your professional field would then be strengthened. By proving yourself. A thesis is an endorsement of an individual’s work ethic.

Completing the research for a thesis and the subsequent submission process shows a strong work ethic on the part of the researcher who must undertake significant and dedicated work over a substantial period of time to be successful.

Proof of a good work ethic, when applied in the field of academic or commercial work, can often demonstrate what could be termed “staying power” to employers, for example; many employers can be unwilling to invest significant resources in an employee’s continued learning unless they have a belief in the candidate's ability to complete long-term projects and contribute to the business over a protracted period of time. Publishing a thesis demonstrates exactly what it can do, and the benefits can be far-reaching for those seeking a place at the top table, both in academic and corporate environments.

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