The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide To Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job

In this Audiobook

• One: The End of an Era
• Two: Breaking Out of the Ivory Tower
• Three: The Myths Grad Students Believe
• Four: The Tenure Track Job Search Process Explained
• Five: Stop Acting Like a Grad Student!
• Six: The Attributes of a Competitive Tenure Track Candidate
• Seven: Building a Competitive Record
• Eight: Your Campaign Platform
• Nine: Why They Want to Reject You
• Ten: When to Go on the Market and How Long to Try
• Eleven: Where are the Jobs? Institution Types and Ranks
• Twelve: Where and How to Find Reliable Advice
• Thirteen: Why “Yourself” is the Last Person You Should Be
• Fourteen: Take Control of Your CV
• Fifteen: Getting Teaching Experience
• Sixteen: Publish This, Not That
• Seventeen: Why You Want and Need Grants
• Eighteen: Cultivating Your References
• Nineteen: Applying to Conferences
• Twenty: How to Work the Conference
• Twenty-One: The Academic Skepticism Principle
• Twenty-Two: What's Wrong with Your Cover Letter
• Twenty-Three: Tailoring with Dignity
• Twenty-Four: Rules of the Academic CV
• Twenty-Five: Just Say No to the Weepy Teaching Statement
• Twenty-Six: Evidence of Teaching Effectiveness
• Twenty-Seven: The Research Statement
• Twenty-Eight: What is a Diversity Statement, Anyway?
• Twenty-Nine: The Dissertation Abstract
• Thirty: Academic Job Interview Basics
• Thirty-One: The Key Questions in an Academic Interview
• Thirty-Two: The Conference Interview (Including Phone and Skype)
• Thirty-Three: The Campus Visit
• Thirty-Four: The Job Talk
• Thirty-Five: The Teaching Demo
• Thirty-Six: How to Talk to the Dean
• Thirty-Seven: They Said What? Handling Outrageous Questions
• Thirty-Eight: Waiting, Wondering, Wiki
• Thirty-Nine: Good Job Candidates Gone Bad
• Forty: Fear of the Inside Candidate
• Forty One: Wrangling Recalcitrant References
• Forty Two: Managing Your Online Presence
• Forty Three: Evaluating Campus Climate
• Forty Four: When You Feel Like You Don't Belong
• Forty Five: What If You're Pregnant?
• Forty Six: What Not to Wear
• Forty Seven: Covering the Costs
• Forty-Eight: Don't Be Afraid to Negotiate
• Forty-Nine: The Rare and Elusive Partner Hire
• Fifty: The Rescinded Offer—Who Is In the Wrong?
• Fifty-One: The Foolproof Grant Template
• Fifty-Two: Proving Your Project is Worthy
• Fifty-Three: The Postdoc Application: How it's Different and Why
• Fifty-Four: The Good and the Bad of Postdocs
• Fifty-Five: Best Advisors, Worst Advisors
• Fifty-Six: A Good Advisor is Not Nice
• Fifty-Seven: Ph.D. Debt and Ethical Advising
• Fifty-Eight: It's OK to Quit
• Fifty-Nine: Let Yourself Dream
• Sixty: 100+ Skills That Translate Outside the Academy
• Sixty-One: Collecting Information
• Sixty-Two: Applying While Ph.D.
• Sixty-Three: Breaking Free: The Path of the Entrepreneur