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The academic job search handbook
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- Creator
- Julia Miller Vick and Jennifer S. Furlong
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Fourth edition
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2008]
- ©2008
- Physical Details
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- viii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780812220162, 0812220161
- OCLC
- ocn222165781
- Rev. ed. of: The academic job search handbook / Mary Morris Heiberger and Julia Miller Vick. 3rd ed. 2001.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-284) and index.
- What you should know before you start -- The structure of academic careers -- Hiring from the institution's point of view -- Planning and timing your search -- Becoming a job candidate: the timetable for your search -- Deciding where and when to apply -- The importance of advisors and professional networks -- Conference presentations and networking -- Letters of recommendation -- Learning about openings -- Written materials for the search: suggestions and samples -- Responding to position announcements -- Vitas -- Additional application materials -- Web sites -- Job hunting correspondence -- Conducting the search -- Interviewing -- Off-site interviews: conference/convention and telephone interviews -- Campus interviews -- Job offers, negotiations, acceptances, and rejections -- After you take the job -- Starting the job -- Knowing about and getting tenure -- Changing jobs -- Additional considerations -- Dual career couples, pregnant on the job market, and related concerns -- International scholars, older candidates, gaps in your vita -- Thinking about the expanded job market