This link has been bookmarked by 23 people . It was first bookmarked on 28 Mar 2012, by Kate Pok.
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08 Feb 15
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13 Apr 13
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eye always on a national stage, poised for the next opportunity, whatever it is: to present a paper, attend a conference, meet a scholar in your field, forge a connection, gain a professional skill.
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read the job ads in your field, and track the predominant and emerging emphases of the listed jobs
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beautifully organized and professional CV
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add one line a month to her CV
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Make strong connections
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Eschew excessive humility
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grant sources
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Strategize your writing projects in your courses, theses, and dissertation, to form the basis of potentially publishable papers.
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Attend every job talk in your department and affiliated departments religiously.
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examining an applicant's CV and file
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local and regional conferences
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Attend national conferences annually
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Apply indiscriminately for money, and master the fine art of tailoring to meet the grant agency's mission.
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Take every opportunity available to present your work publicly
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If you have a piece of work that can pass muster as a publication, make sure that it goes into a refereed journal, the best one you can reasonably manage.
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By your third year or so, apply annually to present a paper at your national conference.
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organize and propose a high-profile panel for your national conference that is made up of young, up-and-coming assistant professors.
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Cultivate a letter writer who is not from your Ph.D.-granting institution
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Write your dissertation with an eye to the publications that it will become.
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Be the sole instructor of at least one course but not more than three (if you can help it).
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Go on the market while A.B.D. because you want to make your worst mistakes while you still have a year of financial support from your home department.
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Cultivate a professional persona as a young scholar. That persona is separate from your previous identity as a graduate student and is, instead, confident, assertive, sophisticated, and outspoken. Devote as much time as it takes to writing out brief—and I do mean brief—summaries of your dissertation research, teaching techniques and philosophy, and your future publication plans. Practice delivering those brief summaries until they become second nature.
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Make your application materials absolutely flawless.
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12 Apr 13
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05 Apr 12
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03 Apr 12
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Cherice MontgomeryVery useful advice for doc students - takes a very proactive, resume-building approach
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31 Mar 12
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Do not attend graduate school unless you are fully supported by—at minimum—a multiyear teaching assistantship that provides a tuition waiver, a stipend, and health insurance that covers most of the years of your program.
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30 Mar 12
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Take every opportunity available to present your work publicly. While I emphasized the importance of national conferences for reputation purposes, actively pursue every possible local and regional opportunity for experience purposes. Public speaking is one of the core skills of an academic career. Make your mistakes in graduate school, where the stakes are low, so that you are a master of the podium when the stakes are high.
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Cultivate a letter writer who is not from your Ph.D.-granting institution. Having all your recommendation letters come from your own committee or department is the sign of a relatively immature candidate. It is not a death knell in your first or second years on the market, but be aware that the strongest and most successful candidates will have a recommendation from an influential senior scholar from outside their home department who can speak to their standing in the field (and not simply to their performance as a graduate student in the department).
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Go on the market while A.B.D. because you want to make your worst mistakes while you still have a year of financial support from your home department. Most people who prevail on the market need at least two years to do so.
Cultivate a professional persona as a young scholar. That persona is separate from your previous identity as a graduate student and is, instead, confident, assertive, sophisticated, and outspoken. Devote as much time as it takes to writing out brief—and I do mean brief—summaries of your dissertation research, teaching techniques and philosophy, and your future publication plans. Practice delivering those brief summaries until they become second nature.
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28 Mar 12
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Kate Pok@ProfessorIsIn: My expanded "Dr. Karen's Rules of Graduate School" out now on the Chronicle. Yay! (And the trolls already out). http://t.co/iY7ryVjL March 27, 2012 at 07:47PM
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