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  • The Professor Is In

  • The Essential Guide to Turning Your PhD into a Job
  • Written by: Karen Kelsky
  • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
  • Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
  • 3.6 out of 5 stars (9 ratings)

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Written by: Karen Kelsky
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Publisher's Summary

Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their PhDs. And each year only a small percentage of them will land jobs that justify and reward their investments. For every comfortably tenured professor or well-paid former academic, there are countless underpaid and overworked adjuncts and many more who simply give up in frustration.

Karen Kelsky has made it her mission to help job seekers join the select few who get the most out of their PhDs. As a former tenured professor and department head who oversaw numerous academic job searches, she knows from experience exactly what gets an academic applicant a job. Now, for the first time ever, Karen has poured all her best advice into a single handy guide that addresses the most important issues facing any PhD, including writing a foolproof grant application, cultivating references and crafting the perfect CV, acing the job talk and campus interview, and making the leap to nonacademic work when the time is right.

©2015 Karen Kelsky (P)2015 Tantor

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"For those students - and anyone who cares about them - [t]his cogent, illuminating book will be indispensable." ( Kirkus)

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Not well suited for audio format.

This book certainly has a lot of useful advice, but I would definitely not recommend its audio format. The reader is great and I laughed at how expressive they often are. There are, however, many sections that were clearly written to be read, and not listened to.

The advice in this book applies mostly for humanities academics. I would not recommend this for someone in the field of science (like myself).

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Great book! A necessity!

perfect examples and loved the practicality of the book. for anyone hoping to get a PhD

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