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Summary:

The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their Ph. D. into their ideal job Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their Ph. D. And each year only a small percentage of them will land a job that justifies and rewards their investment. For every comfortably tenured professor or well-paid former academic, there are countless underpaid and overworked adjuncts, and many more who simply give up in frustration. Those who do make it share an important asset that separates them from the pack: they have a plan. They understand exactly what they need to do to set themselves up for success. They know what really moves the needle in academic job searches, how to avoid the all-too-common mistakes that sink so many of their peers, and how to decide when to point their Ph. D. toward other, non-academic options. Karen Kelsky has made it her mission to help readers join the select few who get the most out of their Ph. D. As a former tenured professor and department head who oversaw numerous academic job searches, she knows from experience exactly what gets an academic applicant a job. And as the creator of the popular and widely respected advice site The Professor is In, she has helped countless Ph. D.'s turn themselves into stronger applicants and land their dream careers. Now, for the first time ever, Karen has poured all her best advice into a single handy guide that addresses the most important issues facing any Ph. D., including: -When, where, and what to publish -Writing a foolproof grant application -Cultivating references and crafting the perfect CV -Acing the job talk and campus interview -Avoiding the adjunct trap -Making the leap to nonacademic work, when the time is right. The Professor Is In addresses all of these issues, and many more. From the Trade Paperback edition

Table of 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

Author/Creator:

Kelsky, Karen, 1964- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Text in English

Included Works:

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

D. [by Kelsky, K.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Professor is in. [by Kelsky, K.] (First edition; New York : Three Rivers Press, [2015] — ISBN 9780553419429; LCCN 2015509258; OCLC Number 910073848)

Subjects:

Education, Higher — Vocational guidance

Doctoral students — Vocational guidance

College graduates — Vocational guidance

Doctor of philosophy degree

Graduate students — Employment — United States

College graduates — Employment — United States

Job hunting — United States

Professional employees — Supply and demand — United States

Education, Higher

Vocational guidance

Doctoral students

College graduates

Graduate students — Employment

Graduate students

College graduates — Employment

Job hunting

Professional employees — Supply and demand

Professional employees

United States

General Notes:

Description based on: Online resource; title from electronic title page (EBSCOhost, viewed March 20, 2018)
Includes bibliographical references and index

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

LB1778

ISBNs:

9780553419436 (electronic bk.)
0553419439 (electronic bk.)
9780553419429 (paperback) [Invalid]
0553419420 (paperback) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

915990257