[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.