Career Choice & Change: Job Hunting, Internship Seeking & Discovering Your Career Path: Grad Students

This book summarizes the key skills doctoral students need to succeed in their studies and prepare for academic and non-academic jobs. Revealing the often-hidden rules of graduate school success, it guides students through challenges like selecting a research topic, choosing an advisor, preparing for conferences, publishing their work, and entering the job market. The book is designed to be used as a course text or for self-study, and each chapter features reflective exercises that can be used individually or in small groups, along with recommended readings.

This book is written to help readers with humanities backgrounds improve their academic research, tertiary-level teaching, professional service, and career trajectory. The author covers how graduate students and new faculty members can better understand the basics of pedagogical practice, and how to serve effectively on the committees that ran their departments, universities, and professional organizations.

What does it really take to get a job in academia? The author combines personal experience with the latest higher education research to help you understand what graduate school and the academy are really like in a candid, pull-no-punches book that answers questions both big and small. Topics include what does it take to succeed in grad school, what kind of jobs are there after grad school, how to be productive, how ‘publish or perish’ works, pay issues, search committees, balancing work and life, and much more. It is intended as a guidebook that anyone considering graduate school, already in grad school, starting as a new professor, or advising graduate students’ needs.

What's the hardest part of grad school? It's not simply that the workload is heavy and the demands are high. It's that too many students lack efficient methods to let them do their best. Prof. Shore uses humorous, lively prose to teach you to master the five most crucial skills you need to succeed: how to read, write, speak, act, and research at a higher level. Each chapter in this no-nonsense guide outlines a unique approach to acquiring a skill and then demonstrates how to enhance it. Using these concrete, practical methods, will save you time, elevate the quality of your work, and help you to earn the degree you seek. If the JSTOR edition of this e-book is in use, try the second copy that’s available on a different platform.

This guide helps PhD students through their graduate student years by providing practical advice on getting started, communicating with your supervisor, staying the course, and planning for the future. While mainly directed at PhD students in the sciences, the book's scope is broad enough to encompass the obstacles and hurdles that almost all PhD students face during their doctoral training. Contents include a variety of material, including additional chapters on how to communicate better with your supervisor, dealing with difficult people, how to find a mentor, and your next career step, once you have your coveted doctoral degree in hand.

This survival kit is a hands-on guide for both students and supervisors about the doctoral journey, helping make the process as enjoyable as it is productive. Drawing on research from peer learning groups, contributed narratives, and their own programs, the authors emphasize the value of the doctoral partnership and the ways in which shared knowledge can facilitate a rewarding journey for students and their advisors. It is part of the SAGE Research Methods collection, which is a rich database that helps with research methods and statistical questions.

In this 2nd edition of a popular guide published by the American Psychological Association, its author, Paul Silvia, offers advice from his own experience in order to help writers in many disciplines overcome barriers to writing and using their time productively. This book covers practical strategies to motivate students, professors, researchers, and other academics to become better and more prolific writers. Topics include how to write, submit, and revise academic work; writing formats such as journal articles and books; and effective time management that avoids sacrificing evenings, weekends, and vacations. New in this edition is a chapter on writing grant and fellowship proposals.

This book offers helpful insight and advice on how doctoral students and junior faculty can succeed. It invites them to identify research opportunities, manage the publication process, achieve excellence in the classroom, secure a faculty position, and build a research record.

This practical guide supports researchers navigating their learning experience, and provides them with the tools they need to succeed in academia, alongside the work and life challenges they may be facing. This book’s eight chapters cover every aspect of the part-time doctoral journey, from initial planning right through to completion. Contents also include diverse viewpoints, address unique learning styles, and feature real-world examples from doctoral researchers. Advice here addresses how to identify and draw on communities of support available, get the most from a supervisory team, and build professional networks.

Are you a graduate, postgraduate or PhD student? Building a CV or profile can be difficult for anyone, but especially for those whose first language is not English. This book is essential for those looking to promote themselves in the academic community. It is structured as a series of FAQs, and its contents are based on interviews with recruiters and an analysis of hundreds of CVs from around 40 different countries.

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. This book will help you plan and understand exactly what you need for a successful academic job search,how to avoid common mistakes, and how to decide when to point your Ph.D. toward other, non-academic options.

An in-depth analysis of the demand for PhDs on the labor markets of twelve countries. The authors analyze the role of PhDs in the creation of innovation in a knowledge-based economy and examine economic issues such as the return on investment for the education and training of doctoral graduates through the analysis of various data sources.

Argues that post-PhD career planning should begin at the same time as the PhD itself. Drawing from ten years of research and stories of close to 50 individuals, each chapter focuses on the stories of individuals who share common career intentions and how they negotiate these both before, during and after their studies.

Subtitled "an owner's manual for finding jobs," this volume is focused on the academic job search process for folks seeking teaching, research and related positions in academe.

For more than 15 years, The Academic Job Search Handbook has assisted job seekers in all academic disciplines in their search for faculty positions. The guide includes information on aspects of the search that are common to all levels, with invaluable tips for those seeking their first or second faculty position.

Don't think about why you're applying. Select a topic for entirely strategic reasons. Choose the coolest supervisor. Write only to deadlines. Expect people to hold your hand. Become "that" student. Taking a wry, frank approach, the authors explain the common mistakes that can trip up a new graduate student and lay out practical advice about how to avoid the pitfalls.

Includes sections on job search, interviewing and related activities.

Veteran professors synthesize their combined 60+ years of expertise at primarily undergraduate, teaching-focused universities into easy-to-follow advice for graduate students and current faculty seeking to build thriving careers at similar institutions

Non-tenure-track lecturers and adjunct instructors face particular challenges at US colleges, including heavy teaching loads, lack of office space, little control over the selection of course topics or textbooks, and long commutes between jobs at two or more schools. Quick Hits for Adjunct Faculty and Lecturers contains short, practice-oriented articles by experienced instructors that offer valuable teaching and career tips for balancing competing demands, addressing student issues, managing classrooms, and enhancing professional development.

Today three-fourths of all faculty are characterized as "contingent instructional staff," a nearly tenfold increase from 1975. This book brings together eleven activists from the United States and Canada to describe the problem, share case histories, and offer concrete solutions.

This essential career guide equips new professionals and doctoral students with a robust foundation for a long and satisfying career in psychology and other behavioral health professions.

The book deals with both the abstract and practical aspects of moving from a univerisity laboratory to a position in the biotech industry. Each chapter lists common and unique features to evaluate breaking down complex decisions into manageable elements. Several sections provide "how to" guides for the preparation of manuscripts, patents, grants, and internal company documents.

This book will help all new teachers maneuver the basics such as lesson planning and classroom management strategies. More importantly, this book will discuss the additional challenges that come with teaching such as training, organizing meetings, developing relationships with coworkers and para-professionals, overcoming the lack of materials for students, financing personal expenditures, fostering communication, understanding school culture, and working within the school structure (or lack thereof).

On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet. Whether you want to write about people or places, science and technology, business, sports, the arts or about yourself in the increasingly popular memoir genre, On Writing Well offers you fundamental priciples as well as the insights of a distinguished writer and teacher. With more than a million copies sole, this volume has stood the test of time and remains a valuable resource for writers and would-be writers.

With more than 200,000 copies in print, The Craft of Research is the unrivaled resource for researchers at every level, from first-year undergraduates to research reporters at corporations and government offices.

Unconscious bias can be at work without our realizing it, and even when we genuinely wish to treat all people equally, ingrained stereotypes can infect our visual perception, attention, memory, and behavior. Unblinking about the tragic consequences of prejudice, Eberhardt addresses how racial bias is not restricted to a few "bad apples," but is present at all levels of society in media, education, and business. The good news is that we are not hopelessly doomed by our innate prejudices. Eberhardt's work and her book are both influenced by her own life, and the personal stories she shares emphasize the need for change. She has helped companies that include Airbnb and Nextdoor address bias in their business practices, and has led anti-bias initiatives for police departments across the country. Here, the author offers practical suggestions for change and new practices.

"The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it -- and then dismantle it." The author’s concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America. This book has become a ‘classic’ title on this topic, because of how the author asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and leads us through thinking about how we can play an active role in building it. Kendi weaves a combination of ethics, history, law, and science into an engaging personal narrative of his own awakening to antiracism.

"A current, constructive, and actionable exploration of today's racial landscape, offering straightforward clarity that readers of all races need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide. In So You Want to Talk About Race, Editor at Large of The Establishment, Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-aggressions, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the "N" word. " - Provided by publisher

Examines strategies and best practices that effectively integrate LGBTQ areas of teaching and research with student life activities.