The Chicago Guide to Landing a Job in Academic Biology
The Chicago Guide to Landing a Job in Academic Biology is an indispensable guide for graduate students and post-docs as they enter that domain red in tooth and claw: the job market. An academic career in the biological sciences typically demands well over a decade of technical training. So itas ironic that when a scholar reaches the most critical stage in that careerathe search for a job following graduate workahe or she receives little or no formal preparation. Instead, students are thrown into the job market with only cursory guidance on how to search for and land a position. Now thereas help. Carefully, clearly, and with a welcome sense of humor, The Chicago Guide to Landing a Job in Academic Biology leads graduate students and postdoctoral fellows through the perils and rewards of their first job search. The authorsawho collectively have for decades mentored students and served on hiring committeesahave honed their advice in workshops at biology meetings across the country. The resulting guide covers everything from how to pack an overnight bag without wrinkling a suit to selecting the right job to apply for in the first place. The authors have taken care to make their advice useful to all areas of academic biologyafrom cell biology and molecular genetics to evolution and ecologyaand they give tips on how applicants can tailor their approaches to different institutions from major research universities to small private colleges. With jobs in the sciences ever more difficult to come by, The Chicago Guide to Landing a Job in Academic Biology is designed to help students and post-docs navigate the tricky terrain of an academic job searchafrom the first year of a graduate program to the final negotiations of a job offer.2. Choosing. a. Graduate. Program. If you have picked up this book, you may already be on the job market or nearing that stage in your career. However, some of you are just starting out as undergraduates, perhaps feeling a bit like ita#39;s youranbsp;...
| Title | : | The Chicago Guide to Landing a Job in Academic Biology |
| Author | : | C. Ray Chandler, Lorne M. Wolfe, Daniel E. L. Promislow |
| Publisher | : | University of Chicago Press - 2008-09-15 |
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