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The professor is in : the essential guide to turning your Ph.D. into a job / Karen Kelsky, Ph.D.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kelsky, Karen, 1964- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Higher--Vocational guidance.
- Education, Higher.
- Doctoral students--Vocational guidance.
- Doctoral students.
- College graduates--Vocational guidance.
- College graduates.
- Job hunting.
- Doctor of philosophy degree.
- Job hunting--United States.
- Professional employees--Supply and demand.
- Professional employees.
- Vocational guidance.
- United States.
- Professional employees--Supply and demand--United States.
- Employment.
- Job Application.
- Medical Subjects:
- Employment.
- Job Application.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 438 pages.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Three Rivers Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- Text in English.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Each year thousands of students earn their Ph.D.'s, but only a small percentage land a job. For every tenured professor or well-paid former academic, there are countless underpaid and overworked adjuncts, and many who simply give up in frustration. To ensure success, you need a plan. You need to learn when, where, and what to publish, how to write effective job documents and ace your interview, how to cultivate references and craft a competitive CV, how to avoid the mistakes and "Adjunct traps" that sink many of your peers, and how to make the leap to nonacademic work, when the time is right. Karen Kelsky has made it her mission to help readers solve the mystery of the academic job market. As a former tenured professor and department head, and the creator of the popular and widely respected advice site TheProfessorIsIn.com, she has helped thousands land their dream careers. Now, for the first time, Dr. Kelsky has poured all her best advice into a guide that addresses the most important issues facing Ph.D.'s. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Dark times in the academy
- Getting your head in the game
- The nuts and bolts of a competitive record
- Job documents that work
- Techniques of the academic interview
- Navigating the job market minefield
- Negotiating an offer
- Grants and postdocs
- Some advice about advisors
- Leaving the cult.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-432) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780553419436
- 0553419439
- Publisher Number:
- 99981944315
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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