BookSusan Basalla and Maggie Debelius.
Contents:
Will I have to wear a suit? rethinking life after graduate school
Getting your head ready
Should I finish my dissertation?
How to use your grad school years wisely
So what am I going to do?
Myths about post-academic careers
Questions about graduate school and your future
Your eclectic mix
Post-academic profile: Abby Markoe, A.B.D. history of medicine, executive, director
Squashwise
How do I figure out what else to do? soul-searching before job searching
Take inventory
Break it down
Looking backward: seven stories
Guilty pleasures
"This is your brain on graduate school"
No need for a #2 pencil
Where are all those PhDs anyway?
Create your own possibilities
Post-academic profile: Samantha Sutton, PhD in biology, life coach
Asking the big questions: how to figure out if you want them and if they want you
Asking the big questions
Answering the big questions: three strategies
Transitional tales
So what's next?
Post-academic profile: Xiuwen Tu, PhD in physics, Sun Power Corporation, device and characterization engineer
This might hurt a bit: turning a CV into a résumé
Getting ready to write a résumé
Writing a résumé: the first draft
A few more words of advice
After you've drafted a résumé
Case studies and sample résumés
Cover letters that will get you hired
Post-academic profile: Alyssa Picard, PhD in history, staff representative for the Michigan Affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers
Sweaty palms, warm heart: how to turn an interview into a job
Before the interview
During the interview
After the interview
What if the interview doesn't go well?
The job offer (or lack thereof)
Negotiation
Adjusting to your new job
Post-academic profile: Scott Keeter, PhD in political science, director of Survey Research, Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
Conclusion.
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