The Vocation Review
Articles by The Vocation Review
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What an hour of expertise costs
The same sixty minutes sells for $21 if you are an average freelancer and for nearly $3,000 if you are a senior partner at an elite law firm.
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From the lab to the market
Most new PhDs used to become professors. Most no longer do, and the numbers on where they land now say less about individual failure than about what doctoral training actually builds.
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The visa that reads your CV
Britain's Global Talent visa admits leaders and future leaders in science, technology and the arts - but the decision that matters happens before any immigration officer opens a passport, when an outside panel reads a CV, letters of recommendation and a stack of scanned documents.
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The diaspora advantage
Across the OECD, people who have just crossed a border are more likely to start a business than people who never left.
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Those who teach, grow
A wave of research on the "protégé effect" suggests that explaining what you know to someone else is not time taken from mastering it - it may be one of the more reliable paths to mastery itself.
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The Mathematician Who Refuses to Guess
He spent a decade modelling how molten polymers flow through industrial machines.