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Graduate School Is a Means to a Job - Manage Your Career - The Chronicle of Higher Educ... - 0 views

  • If offered the option of writing a master's thesis, seriously consider taking it, as it can form the core of your first refereed journal article. Plan out a publishing trajectory to ensure that you have at least one sole-authored refereed journal article before you defend your dissertation.
  • Attend every job talk in your department and affiliated departments religiously. It matters not if those talks are in your field or subfield.
  • Take every opportunity available to present your work publicly.
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  • Make your mistakes in graduate school, where the stakes are low, so that you are a master of the podium when the stakes are high.
  • apply annually to present a paper at your national conference
  • Cultivate a letter writer who is not from your Ph.D.-granting institution.
  • Write your dissertation with an eye to the publications that it will become
  • You must publish enough to get a job without prematurely exhausting your supply of material you will need for tenure.
  • Remember that the best dissertation is a finished dissertation.
  • Do what it takes to satisfy your committee and finish.
  • Be the sole instructor of at least one course
  • Go on the market while A.B.D. because you want to make your worst mistakes while you still have a year of financial support from your home department. Most people who prevail on the market need at least two years to do so.
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    An academic career counselor talks about the job search process
Rick West

The Professor Is In: The Job Talk Q&A | Vitae - 0 views

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    This is pretty good advice
Rick West

20 things, 20 year olds need to know - 0 views

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    good advice for anyone in any kind of job hunt!
Rick West

When It'll Never Be a Good Fit - Manage Your Career - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    Nice insights into the awkwardness of a job interview for academia, and of the importance of finding a good fit.
Rick West

The Rhetoric of the CV - Manage Your Career - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

  • Never include your graduate school GPA
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      I don't know, I think GPAs are good if you have a good GPA.
  • lot depends on the type of college to which you are applying.
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      This is exactly right---emphasize teaching for a teaching college, and research for a research university.
  • clearly labeled headings for each kind of publication that you have: books, peer-reviewed journal articles, peer-reviewed book chapters, other kinds of peer-reviewed writing, book reviews, encyclopedia articles, other types of academic writing, and so on.
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  • Doing so implicitly argues that you believe a peer-reviewed article has the same scholarly impact as a book review. That, of course, is not true, and I am sure that you do not actually believe it, but the rhetoric of your CV is suggesting that you do.
  • uch work should be clearly labeled and placed in a subsection called "Under Submission" or "Work in Progress."
  • have individual subsections highlighting courses for which you were the instructor of record, for which you were a graduate assistant, or for which you gave guest presentations (if applicable).
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    how to write up your vita.
Rick West

The Best Raise You'll Ever Receive - On Hiring - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    negotiating salary
Rick West

How New Graduate Students Should Spend Their Summers - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher... - 0 views

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    how to spend your summers as a grad student.
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