The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career. A Portable Mentor for Scholars from Graduate School Through Tenure. - GOLDSMITH, JOHN
A Portable Mentor for Scholars from Graduate School Through Tenure
KORTE INHOUD
Is a career as a professor the right choice for you? If you are a graduate student, how can you clear the hurdles successfully and position yourself for academic employment? What's the best way to prepare for a job interview, and how can you maximize your chances of landing a job that suits you? What happens if you don't receive an offer? How does the tenure process work, and how do faculty members cope with the multiple and conflicting day-to-day demands? With a perpetually tight job market in the traditional academic fields, the road to an academic career for many aspiring scholars will often be a rocky and frustrating one. Where can they turn for good, frank answers to their questions? Here, three distinguished scholars—with more than 75 years of combined experience—talk openly about what's good and what's not so good about academia, as a place to work and a way of life. Written as an informal conversation among colleagues, the book is packed with inside information—about finding a mentor, avoiding pitfall...
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2001Uitgever: University Of Chicago Press272 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0226301516ISBN-13: 9780226301518Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original publisher's blue paperback, title spine and frontcover, large 8vo: xx, 310pp., notes & references, about the authors, bibliography, index. Very fine copy - as new. Chicago-London, University of Chicago Press 2001 [Auteur: GOLDSMITH, JOHN] [Jaar: 2001] [Titel: The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career. A Portable Mentor for Scholars from Graduate School Through Tenure.]
