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Getting an academic job / Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld, Marcia Lynn Whicker.
Van Pelt Library LB2332.72 .K76 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kronenfeld, Jennie J.
- Series:
- Survival skills for scholars ; v. 17.
- Survival skills for scholars ; v. 17
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- College teachers--Employment--United States.
- College teachers.
- College teachers--Employment.
- United States.
- Graduate students--Employment--United States.
- Graduate students.
- Graduate students--Employment.
- Job hunting--United States.
- Job hunting.
- Physical Description:
- 113 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, [1997]
- Summary:
- You have almost finished graduate school and you are wondering . . . How do I get that first academic job? Authors Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld and Marcia Lynn Whicker lead their readers through the basics: Are your sights set too high or not high enough? Are you prepared for the campus interview? Have you shown your seriousness about your career through your publications? These questions and many more are thoroughly covered in Getting An Academic Job, a brief yet practical guide to successfully entering the academic job market. Getting An Academic Job provides examples from a multitude of disciplines and academic settings and will be an essential guide to any graduate student.
- Contents:
- The nature of job searches
- Searching for a job
- The job interview
- Landing the right job
- Special considerations : dual careers, senior and non-academic jobs
- The dos and don'ts of job searching.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 110-112).
- ISBN:
- 0803970153
- 0803970145
- OCLC:
- 35172521
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