This section highlights resources about career issues unique to graduate students, including practical materials that help with academic track and non-academic track career choice & job searching. The left box features general, recent titles. The remaining boxes group resources into sections about professional sources you can read to keep up with the field, the nature of the labor force, resources for adjuncts, diversity issues in the workplace, and career changers. Finally, there is a box about UCSD-specific groups and how to use the Library's online catalog to look for more.
Grad School Essentials by 
Mastering Your PhD: survival and success in the doctoral years and beyond, 2nd ed. by 
How to Write a Lot: a practical guide to productive academic writing by 
The Aspiring Entrepreneurship Scholar by 
Be a Startup Superstar: ignite your career working at a tech start-up by 
The Art of Being Indispensable at Work by 
Demystifying Career Paths after Graduate School by
subtitled: 'a guide for second language professionals in higher education.'
Working with Faculty Writers by
The imperative to write and to publish is a relatively new development in the history of academia, yet it is now a significant factor in the culture of higher education. This book takes a broad view of faculty writing support, advocating its value for tenure-track professors, adjuncts, senior scholars, and graduate students.
Behind the Academic Curtain by
More people than ever are going to graduate school to seek a PhD these days. When they get there, they discover a bewildering environment: a rapid immersion in their discipline, a keen competition for resources, and uncertain options for their future, whether inside or outside of academia. Life with a PhD can begin to resemble an unsolvable maze. Furstenberg offers a clear and user-friendly map to this maze. Drawing on decades of experience in academia, he provides a comprehensive, empirically grounded, and, most important of all, practical guide to academic life.
From Student to Professor by
This guide not only discusses how students may adjust and succeed in graduate school; it also prepares them to enter a career in academia.
Advance: the ultimate how-to guide for your career by
Advance offers advice whether you're just starting your career, high up on the ladder, or "stuck" anywhere in between. The author, a CEO of a large management consulting firm, lays out a mosaic of "how-to" advice that applies every day and at every level. He takes on a "Top 20" of career must-haves: managing for the first time, engaging in the "money conversation" with your boss, dealing with difficult bosses (without quitting), coping with coworkers (without losing your mind), making presentations (that don't put people to sleep), mastering digital communication (and avoiding emails that will get you fired), thinking globally (without leaving your office), taking an overseas assignment, meeting senior leaders for the first time (without putting your foot in your mouth), navigating political waters (without sinking your career), reading and fitting in with the culture, and more.
Global Applications of Multigenerational Management and Leadership in the Transcultural Era by
While much thought has been given to how business leaders and managers can obtain the most productivity from Millennials (Generation Y) and subsequent groups such as Generation Z, the true challenge is far more complex. The workforce of the near future will be a multigenerational one, featuring members from between four and six generations in one organizational setting. This situation is made even more complex and challenging with the effect of today's globalization, which has created worldwide hypercompetition in organizations that often involves members from multiple cultures who speak different languages.
This book is a reference source that provides vital research on the application of applying numerous leadership styles to effectively navigate generational compromise. While highlighting topics such as consumer behavior, leadership management, and workforce diversity, this publication is ideally designed for business scholars, managers, executives, human resources professionals, recruitment agencies, students, business professionals, and international business leaders seeking current research on communication strategies and the most effective ways to handle a diverse workforce.
Eat, Sleep, Innovate: how to make creativity an everyday habit inside your organization by
This guide is about using the power of habit to build a culture of innovation. Leaders have experimented with open innovation programs, corporate accelerators, venture capital arms, skunkworks, and innovation contests. In this book, Scott Anthony and his impressive team of coauthors use groundbreaking research in behavioral science to provide a first-of-its-kind playbook for empowering individuals and teams to be their most curious and creative every single day. In addition to case studies of "normal organizations doing extraordinary things," they provide readers with the tools to create their own hacks and habits, which they can then use to build and sustain their own models of a culture of innovation. Fun, lively, and utterly unique, this book will assist you to make innovation a natural and habitual act within your team or organization.
Every field and industry has at least one publication that people in the field read to keep up with what's going on. These magazines are in the Library's collections and you can access them and read like any pro in your field! For those exploring careers, they are great sources for inspiration. For job seekers, they are sources that can help you look knowledgable on trends, which can give you an edge for your job interviews and put you at ease for those moments of small talk with a potential employer.
Classic titles are:
Example: entrepreneurship. Check off "Trade Publications" on the left to focus on news & developments in the field.
English for Academic CVs, Resumes, and Online Profiles by 
The Professor Is In: the essential guide to turning your Ph.D. into a job by 
The Science and Technology Labor Force by 
Post-PhD Career Trajectories by 
The PhD Handbook for the Academic Job Search by 
The Psychologist's Guide to Professional Development by 
Academia to Biotechnology by 
Corporate to Classroom: a Career-Switcher's Guide to Teaching by 
On Writing Well: the classic guide to writing nonfiction by 
The Craft of Research by Selected subjects for easy browsing:
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Below are links to books that may help you find and get a job:
Conquering Academia: transparent experiences of diverse female doctoral students by
This book highlights the lived experiences of diverse women who are progressing through a doctoral degree program, covering the challenges as well as opportunities that they face. It addresses themes of intersectionality, lived experiences, challenges and opportunities. Part of the Contemporary Perspectives on Access, Equity, and Achievement series, this book describes how their cultural identities assist them with navigating the academic landscape, and provides guidance for current female doctoral students about strategic positioning as a student within the doctoral program and personal necessary transformation in academia. It also informs faculty and staff in academia about the experiences of diverse women and how to support their progression and overall retention.
The Public Professor: how to use your research to change the world by
The work of academics can matter and be influential on a public level, but the path to becoming a public intellectual, influential policy advisor, valued community resource or go-to person on an issue is not one that most scholars are trained for. This book offers scholars strategies to become more engaged with the public on a variety of fronts: online, in print, at council hearings, even with national legislation. Lee Badgett (@LeeBadgett), is a veteran policy analyst and public intellectual with 25+ years of experience connecting cutting edge research with policymakers and the public.
Autism Works by
Packed with real-life case studies examining the day-to-day working lives of people across the autism spectrum in a wide variety of careers, this book provides constructive solutions for both employers seeking to improve their workplaces and for individuals with autism considering their employment options. It dispels popular myths about autism, such as that everyone is good at IT, and crucially tackles the potential job opportunities available across the spectrum, including for those who have no language at all. It also highlights the neglected area of gender differences in the workplace.
Hidden Inequalities in the Workplace by
The book presents a critical framework for assessing whether organisational practice and function reinforces unseen potential differences amongst individuals in the workplace.
Expanding the Circle by 
Gendered Success in Higher Education by
Examines higher education institutions that exemplify gendered success whether in terms of the presence of women in senior positions or attempts to change a gendered organisational culture. It proposes a new gender agenda, identifies the factors that need to be included in a model of gendered change, and provides important insights into the nature of gendered change globally.
A Practical Guide to Gender Diversity for CS Professors by
Computer science faces a continuing crisis in the lack of females pursuing and succeeding in the field. Companies may suffer due to reduced product quality, students suffer because educators have failed to adjust to diverse populations, and future generations suffer due to a lack of role models and continued challenges in the environment. In this book, we draw on the latest research in sociology, psychology, and education to first identify why we should be striving for gender diversity (beyond social justice).
Navigating Academia: a Guide for Women and Minority STEM Faculty by
This book explores the infrastructure of the academy and provides a systematic account of where and why women and minorities fall behind men in the preparation for and development of their academic careers. This book offers useful strategies for recruiting, retaining, and advancing women and minorities.
Homofiles: theory, sexuality, and graduate studies by
This volume collects the work of gay, lesbian, and transgender graduate students who are pursuing studies across the humanities. This is the first anthology to specifically explore the role of queer and transgender intellectuals-in-training within the academy, and the contributors both analyze and challenge the structures of academia that they are working in as cultural critics.
Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability by
This book explores the concept of "occupation" in disability well beyond traditional clinical formulations of disability: it considers disability not in terms of pathology or impairment, but as a range of unique social identities and experiences that are shaped by visible or invisible diagnoses/impairments, socio-cultural perceptions and environmental barriers and offers innovative ideas on how to apply theoretical training to real world contexts.
Handbook of Research on Immigrant Career Development Practices by 
