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https://policyoptions.irpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/The-PhD-employment-crisis-is-systemic-3.jpg2000700Each year more than 7,000 of the brightest and most determined minds in Canada are awarded PhDs. As of 2015, there were 208,480 PhD holders in Canada. However, only 20 percent of PhDs will work as university professors, and 2 percent of jobs in the country require a PhD. Getting a first job after these […]