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Summary:

Offers career guidance to Ph.D. degree holders, addressing such issues as publishing, interviews, CVs, cultivating references, avoiding career path mistakes, and transitioning to non-academic work.

Table of Contents:

• Part I. Dark times in the academy. The end of an era ; Breaking out of the ivory tower ; The myths grad students believe
• Part II. Getting your head in the game. The tenure track job search process explained ; Stop acting like a grad student! ; The attributes of a competitive tenure track candidate ; Building a competitive record ; Your campaign platform ; Why they want to reject you ; When to go on the market and how long to try ; Where are the jobs? Institution types and ranks ; Where and how to find reliable advice ; Why "yourself" is the last person you should be
• Part III. The nuts and bolts of a competitive record. Take control of your CV ; Getting teaching experience ; Publish this, not that ; Why you want and need grants ; Cultivating your references ; Applying to conferences ; How to work the conference
• Part IV. Job documents that work. The academic skepticism principle ; What's wrong with your cover letter ; Tailoring with dignity ; Rules of the academic CV ; Just say no to the weepy teaching statement ; Evidence of teaching effectiveness ; The research statement ; What is a diversity statement, anyway? ; The dissertation abstract
• Part V. Techniques of the academic interview. Academic job interview basics ; The key questions in an academic interview ; The conference interview (including phone and Skype) ; The campus visit ; The job talk ; The teaching demo ; How to talk to the dean ; They said what? Handling outrageous questions ; Waiting, wondering, Wiki
• Part VI. Navigating the job market minefield. Good job candidates gone bad ; Fear of the inside candidate ; Wrangling recalcitrant references ; Managing your online presence ; Evaluating campus climate ; When you feel like you don't belong ; What if you're pregnant? ; What not to wear ; Covering the costs
• Part VII. Negotiating an offer. Don't be afraid to negotiate ; The rare and elusive partner hire ; The rescinded offer
• who is in the wrong?
• Part VIII. Grants and postdocs. The foolproof grant template ; Proving your project is worthy ; The postdoc application: How it's different and why ; The good and the bad of postdocs
• Part IX. Some advice about advisors. Best advisors, worst advisors ; A good advisor is not nice ; Ph.D. debt and ethical advising
• Part X. Leaving the cult. It's OK to quit ; Let yourself dream ; 100+ skills that translate outside the academy ; Collecting information ; Applying while Ph.D. ; Breaking free: The path of the entrepreneur ; Declaring independence.

Author/Creator:

Kelsky, Karen, 1964- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Text in English.

Main Work:

The professor is in: the essential guide to turning your Ph.D. into a job [by Kelsky, K.]

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Professor is in. [by Kelsky, K.] (First edition — OCLC Number 1085908346)

Subjects:

Education, Higher — Vocational guidance

Doctoral students — Vocational guidance

College graduates — Vocational guidance

Job hunting

Doctor of philosophy degree

Job hunting — United States

Professional employees — Supply and demand — United States

Education, Higher

Vocational guidance

Doctoral students

College graduates

Professional employees — Supply and demand

Professional employees

United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-432) and index.

Physical Description:

x, 438 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Call Numbers:

LB1778 .K45 2015

ISBNs:

9780553419429 (paperback)
0553419420 (paperback)
9780553419436 (ebook) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2015509258

OCLC Numbers:

910073848