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The academic job search handbook
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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 new fourth edition provides updated advice a...
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 new fourth edition provides updated advice and addresses hot topics in today's competitive job market.
Details
- Creator
- Julia Miller Vick and Jennifer S. Furlong
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 4th ed
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2008]
- ©2008
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (viii, 287 pages) : illustrations
- text file PDF
- ISBNs
- 9780812209440, 0812209443, 9780812220162, 0812220161
- OCLC
- ocn859161189
- Revised edition of: The academic job search handbook / Mary Morris Heiberger and Julia Miller Vick. 3rd edition 2001.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-284) and index.
- In English.
- 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
Subjects
- College teachers -- Employment -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- College teachers -- Selection and appointment -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Career Choice.
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- Faculty.
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- Universities.
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- Vocational Guidance.
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