Log In
Or create an account -> 
Imperial Library
  • Home
  • About
  • News
  • Upload
  • Forum
  • Help
  • Login/SignUp

Index
Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgments 1 Get What You Want from Your PhD
Is this book really for me? What should my career goal be? What does “work your career” mean? What career competencies am I building over the course of my doctoral program? Do I really need this book? Won’t my supervisor and program train me to work my career? Why are most PhD programs so focused on academic careers? Why should I listen to you two? Why are you writing this book?
2 Select Your Program Carefully
Should I bother reading this chapter if I am already in a PhD program? How do I decide if a PhD is right for me? How do I decide which programs to apply to? What should I put in my application? Should I apply for external funding on my own prior to entering a program? How do I decide which program acceptance to take? What is the difference between a scholarship, teaching assistant (TA), and research assistant (RA) offer? Is there a chance that additional funding opportunities will emerge during the course of my program? What do I do if I have already started my program and see things I could have done differently? So, what should I do?
3 Work Your Program
How do I select the best courses to advance my future career? What skills will help me excel in my classes? How do I select assignment topics within my classes to advance my future career? Should I pick my dissertation topic and supervisor before I am done my coursework? How do I select a dissertation topic? How do I find a supervisor? How do I know if I should continue my program after finishing the coursework? How much should I fear my comps? How do I prepare for my comps? How do I know if I should continue my program after my comps? How do I write a dissertation proposal? How do I work effectively with my supervisor? How can I progress through my dissertation? (Or, “how will I ever get this done?”) How do I know if I should continue my program during the dissertation stage? Can I use a copy editor or a statistical consultant for my work? How do I know when my dissertation is done? What should I expect for the dissertation defence? I am well into my program and didn’t do any of this. What can I do now? So, how can I work my program?
4 Go Beyond Your Program
Shouldn’t I focus solely on my program and dissertation? What am I looking to gain from non-program activities? What are the options? How do I determine what is a sound investment of time? My side gig led to a real career opportunity. Should I finish my program? What do I do if I am at the end of my program and didn’t do any of this? How can I make the most of a postdoc position? How do I balance my program and non-program activities?
5 Establish Your Funding Track Record
What is a funding track record, and why do I want one? When should I start building my funding track record? How do I learn about grant and award opportunities? How do I make my grant application competitive? How do I ask someone else to nominate me for an award? How can I learn grantsmanship from a faculty grant application? What do I do if I am at the end of my program and didn’t do any of this? How do I get comfortable with all of this?
6 Build a Strategic Publishing Portfolio
Do I really need to publish during my PhD? What should I publish on? Should I publish from my dissertation before I defend it? Should I publish on topics unrelated to my dissertation topic? Where should I publish? Should I pursue scholarly publications if I have no interest in an academic job? Are book chapters or journal articles better? How can I get a journal article published? Should I write a book chapter for an edited book? Should I edit or co-edit a book? Should I coauthor? If I do coauthor, how do I make it work? I am at the end of my program and didn’t do any of this. What do I do? So, bottom line, what should I do about writing and publishing?
7 Cultivate a Professional Reputation
How can I cultivate a professional reputation? How can I be productive? How do I communicate professionally? How can I network effectively? How can I use social media effectively? I am at the end of my program and didn’t do any of this. Where do I start? These ideas are interesting, but how do I actually make them work?
8 Launch Your Career
Do I need to choose between pursuing a “regular” career or an academic career? What are my career options as a PhD? How do I figure out what I want to do? Once I have an idea of what I want to do, how do I get started? How can I make my application materials more competitive? Who should I list as references? How do I prepare for an interview? What do I do after the interview? I found a great non-academic career. Should I try to keep one foot in the academic door? So, how do I launch my career?
9  Approach Academic Jobs Strategically
How do I figure out the problem that a particular academic job is seeking to solve? How do I decide if I fit the position enough to apply? How can I make my application materials more competitive? What do I need to consider if I am an “inside candidate”? What do I do after I have applied for a job? I received an invitation for an interview. How do I prepare? I haven’t heard back after my interview. Why is it taking so long? Overall, how should I approach the academic job market?
10 Work Your Career Appendix: Faculty Call to Action Index
  • ← Prev
  • Back
  • Next →
  • ← Prev
  • Back
  • Next →

Chief Librarian: Las Zenow <zenow@riseup.net>
Fork the source code from gitlab.

This is a mirror of the Tor onion service:
http://kx5thpx2olielkihfyo4jgjqfb7zx7wxr3sd4xzt26ochei4m6f7tayd.onion