内容简介

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.

作品目录

Part I: Dark Times in the Academy

Chapter One: The End of an Era

Chapter Two: Breaking Out of the Ivory Tower

Chapter Three: The Myths Grad Students Believe

Part II: Getting Your Head in the Game

Chapter Four: The Tenure Track Job Search Explained

Chapter Five: Stop Acting Like a Grad Student

Chapter Six: The Attributes of Successful Tenure Track Candidates

Chapter Seven: Building a Competitive Record

Chapter Eight: Your Campaign Platform

Chapter Nine: Why They Want to Reject You

Chapter Ten: When To Go on the Market and How Long to Try

Chapter Eleven: Where Are the Jobs? Institution Types and Ranks

Chapter Twelve: Where to Find Reliable Advice

Chapter Thirteen: Why ‘Yourself’ Is The Last Person You Should Be

Part III: The Nuts and Bolts of a Competitive Record

Chapter Fourteen: Take Control of Your CV

Chapter Fifteen: Getting Teaching Experience

Chapter Sixteen: Publish This, Not That

Chapter Seventeen: Why You Want and Need Grants

Chapter Eighteen: Cultivating Your References

Chapter Nineteen: Applying to Conferences

Chapter Twenty: How to Work the Conference

Part IV: Job Documents That Work

Chapter Twenty-one: The Academic Skepticism Principle

Chapter Twenty-two: What’s Wrong With Your Cover Letter

Chapter Twenty-three: Tailoring With Dignity

Chapter Twenty-four: Rules of the Academic CV

Chapter Twenty-five: Just Say No to the Weepy Teaching Statement

Chapter Twenty-six: Evidence of Teaching Effectiveness

Chapter Twenty-seven: The Research Statement

Chapter Twenty-eight: What Is a Diversity Statement, Anyway?

Chapter Twenty-nine: The Dissertation Abstract

Part V: Techniques of the Academic Interview

Chapter Thirty: Academic Job Interview Basics

Chapter Thirty-one: The Key Questions in an Academic Interview

Chapter Thirty-two: The Conference Interview (including Phone and Skype)

Chapter Thirty-three: The Campus Visit

Chapter Thirty-four: The Job Talk

Chapter Thirty-five: The Teaching Demo

Chapter Thirty-six: How To Talk to the Dean

Chapter Thirty-seven: They Said What? Handling Outrageous Questions

Chapter Thirty-eight: Waiting, Wondering, Wiki

Part VI: Navigating the Job Market Minefield

Chapter Thirty-nine: Good Job Candidates Gone Bad

Chapter Forty: Fear of the Inside Candidate

Chapter Forty-one: Wrangling Recalcitrant References

Chapter Forty-two: Managing Your Online Presence

Chapter Forty-three: Evaluating Campus Climate

Chapter Forty-four: When You Feel Like You Don’t Belong….

Chapter Forty-five: What If You’re Pregnant?

Chapter Forty-six: What Not To Wear

Chapter Forty-seven: Covering the Costs

Part VII: Negotiating an Offer

Chapter Forty-eight: Don’t Be Afraid to Negotiate

Chapter Forty-nine: The Rare and Elusive Spousal Offer

Chapter Fifty: The Rescinded Offer–Who Is In the Wrong?

Part VIII: Grants and Postdocs

Chapter Fifty-one: The Foolproof Grant Template

Chapter Fifty-two: Proving Your Project is Worthy

Chapter Fifty-three: The Postdoc Application: How It’s Different and Why

Chapter Fifty-four: The Good and the Bad of Postdocs

Part IX: Some Advice About Advisors

Chapter Fifty-five: Best Advisors, Worst Advisors

Chapter Fifty-six: A Good Advisor Is Not Nice

Chapter Fifty-seven: Ph.D. Debt and Ethical Advising

Part X: Leaving the Cult

Chapter Fifty-eight: It’s OK to Quit

Chapter Fifty-nine: Let Yourself Dream

Chapter Sixty: 100+ Skills That Translate Outside the Academy

Chapter Sixty-one: Collecting Information

Chapter Sixty-two: Applying While Ph.D.

Chapter Sixty-three: Breaking Free: The Path of the Entrepreneur

Conclusion: Declaring Independence