"So what are you going to do with that?"
Subtitle: finding careers outside academia
By: Susan Basalla and Maggie Debelius
Contributors: Debelius, Maggie, 1966- author
Edition: Third edition.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
ISBN-13: 9780226200408
Subjects: Graduate students; Job hunting; Employment; Career changes
Table of contents: title: Will I have to wear a suit? rethinking life after graduate school; title: Getting your head ready; title: Should I finish my dissertation?; title: How to use your grad school years wisely; title: So what am I going to do?; title: Myths about post-academic careers; title: Questions about graduate school and your future; title: Your eclectic mix; title: Post-academic profile: Abby Markoe, A.B.D. history of medicine, executive, director; title: Squashwise; title: How do I figure out what else to do? soul-searching before job searching; title: Take inventory; title: Break it down; title: Looking backward: seven stories; title: Guilty pleasures; title: "This is your brain on graduate school"; title: No need for a #2 pencil; title: Where are all those PhDs anyway?; title: Create your own possibilities; title: Post-academic profile: Samantha Sutton, PhD in biology, life coach; title: Asking the big questions: how to figure out if you want them and if they want you; title: Asking the big questions; title: Answering the big questions: three strategies; title: Transitional tales; title: So what's next?; title: Post-academic profile: Xiuwen Tu, PhD in physics, Sun Power Corporation, device and characterization engineer; title: This might hurt a bit: turning a CV into a résumé; title: Getting ready to write a résumé; title: Writing a résumé: the first draft; title: A few more words of advice; title: After you've drafted a résumé; title: Case studies and sample résumés; title: Cover letters that will get you hired; title: Post-academic profile: Alyssa Picard, PhD in history, staff representative for the Michigan Affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers; title: Sweaty palms, warm heart: how to turn an interview into a job; title: Before the interview; title: During the interview; title: After the interview; title: What if the interview doesn't go well?; title: The job offer (or lack thereof); title: Negotiation; title: Adjusting to your new job; title: Post-academic profile: Scott Keeter, PhD in political science, director of Survey Research, Pew Research Center for the People & the Press; title: Conclusion.