"So what are you going to do with that?" : finding careers outside academia / Susan Basalla and Maggie Debelius.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Basalla, Susan Elizabeth, 1970- (Author), Debelius, Maggie, 1966- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
Job hunting.
Graduate students > Employment.
Career changes.
Physical Description:xii, 149 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Book
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.