[Lucy_karpova]

As a recruiter, I’d say that you really need to tell what you’re thinking to people who might interview you. PhD shows that you’ve spent some years to get your skills Certified and thus master some of them. Bur it doesn’t mean that a person with a PhD is better than the one without but with 5-10 years experience of working in some specific area. Some good programmers and scientists(like data scientist) never get a PhD and their skills are not lower compared to their certified peers. So my advice would be: lay it on the line regarding what you’re looking for in terms of challenges and reward for them and show what you can. Papers don’t matter much nowadays but personalities do.

[kartikkumar]

A PhD might not demonstrate that you're anymore capable of a specific job, but by the same reckoning plenty of employers pigeon-hole PhDs as "academic-types" with no sense of how things work in the real world. With respect to that, it is really is about breaking unfounded stereotypes and debunking myths that if you've gone through formal training and you have the "Dr." title attached to your name, that you're not really able to be a team player and achieve what's necessary in the business world. Bottomline is that whether you have a PhD or not, as you say, you have to show what you're capable of. The fact of the matter is that having completed a PhD brings with it a lot of "real world" skills than simply becoming a domain expert: project management, creativity, passion, perserverance, to name just a few. My experience, shared by others with a research background is that the the tech industry often needs "educating" that PhDs can bring meaningful value to the table, even for problems that at first might seem to not be of interest.