Job Search In Academe: How to Get the Position You Deserve
As an updated edition of a 1999 title, this book takes an account of the vast changes along the path to employment over the past dozen years. It is a handbook for those who have master’s or doctoral degrees in hand and are in need of a first job or of a new one, either within academe or outside its walls. The book carries the prospective employee from writing the CV to negotiating the contract and on to doing the hiring. This edition adds advice for minority candidates and job seekers in the sciences."With a great deal of wit, with a whole lot of common sense, Dawn Formo and Cheryl Reed have produced a ‘handbook’ which will be invaluable to job seekers."This extremely savvy guide to the academic job search and application, interviewing, and negotiation process really works….it just helped my son land a tenure-track position in a major university.