内容简介：
Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their Ph.D. And each year only a small percentage of them will land a job that justifies and rewards their investment. For every comfortably tenured professor or well-paid former academic, there are countless underpaid and overworked adjuncts, and many more who simply give up in frustration.
Those who do make it share an important asset that separates them from the pack: they have a plan. They understand exactly what they need to do to set themselves up for success. They know what really moves the needle in academic job searches, how to avoid the all-too-common mistakes that sink so many of their peers, and how to decide when to point their Ph.D. toward other, non-academic options.
Karen Kelsky has made it her mission to help readers join the select few who get the most out of their Ph.D. As a former tenured professor and department head who oversaw numerous academic job searches, she knows from experience exactly what gets an academic applicant a job. And as the creator of the popular and widely respected advice site The Professor is In, she has helped countless Ph.D.’s turn themselves into stronger applicants and land their dream careers.
Now, for the first time ever, Karen has poured all her best advice into a single handy guide that addresses the most important issues facing any Ph.D., including:
-When, where, and what to publish
-Writing a foolproof grant application
-Cultivating references and crafting the perfect CV
-Acing the job talk and campus interview
-Avoiding the adjunct trap
-Making the leap to nonacademic work, when the time is right
The Professor Is In addresses all of these issues, and many more.
作者简介：
KAREN KELSKY has run The Professor Is In blog and business since 2010, and today, she is the most widely recognized expert in the highly engaged world of Ph.D.'s attempting to navigate the transition to the job market. A former tenured professor and department head at two major research institutions, she knows (and shares) the insider knowledge of academic hiring.
目录：
Part I: Dark Times in the Academy
Chapter One: The End of an Era
Chapter Two: Breaking Out of the Ivory Tower
Chapter Three: The Myths Grad Students Believe
Part II: Getting Your Head in the Game
Chapter Four: The Tenure Track Job Search Explained
Chapter Five: Stop Acting Like a Grad Student
Chapter Six: The Attributes of Successful Tenure Track Candidates
Chapter Seven: Building a Competitive Record
Chapter Eight: Your Campaign Platform
Chapter Nine: Why They Want to Reject You
Chapter Ten: When To Go on the Market and How Long to Try
Chapter Eleven: Where Are the Jobs? Institution Types and Ranks
Chapter Twelve: Where to Find Reliable Advice
Chapter Thirteen: Why ‘Yourself’ Is The Last Person You Should Be
Part III: The Nuts and Bolts of a Competitive Record
Chapter Fourteen: Take Control of Your CV
Chapter Fifteen: Getting Teaching Experience
Chapter Sixteen: Publish This, Not That
Chapter Seventeen: Why You Want and Need Grants
Chapter Eighteen: Cultivating Your References
Chapter Nineteen: Applying to Conferences
Chapter Twenty: How to Work the Conference
Part IV: Job Documents That Work
Chapter Twenty-one: The Academic Skepticism Principle
Chapter Twenty-two: What’s Wrong With Your Cover Letter
Chapter Twenty-three: Tailoring With Dignity
Chapter Twenty-four: Rules of the Academic CV
Chapter Twenty-five: Just Say No to the Weepy Teaching Statement
Chapter Twenty-six: Evidence of Teaching Effectiveness
Chapter Twenty-seven: The Research Statement
Chapter Twenty-eight: What Is a Diversity Statement, Anyway?
Chapter Twenty-nine: The Dissertation Abstract
Part V: Techniques of the Academic Interview
Chapter Thirty: Academic Job Interview Basics
Chapter Thirty-one: The Key Questions in an Academic Interview
Chapter Thirty-two: The Conference Interview (including Phone and Skype)
Chapter Thirty-three: The Campus Visit
Chapter Thirty-four: The Job Talk
Chapter Thirty-five: The Teaching Demo
Chapter Thirty-six: How To Talk to the Dean
Chapter Thirty-seven: They Said What? Handling Outrageous Questions
Chapter Thirty-eight: Waiting, Wondering, Wiki
Part VI: Navigating the Job Market Minefield
Chapter Thirty-nine: Good Job Candidates Gone Bad
Chapter Forty: Fear of the Inside Candidate
Chapter Forty-one: Wrangling Recalcitrant References
Chapter Forty-two: Managing Your Online Presence
Chapter Forty-three: Evaluating Campus Climate
Chapter Forty-four: When You Feel Like You Don’t Belong….
Chapter Forty-five: What If You’re Pregnant?
Chapter Forty-six: What Not To Wear
Chapter Forty-seven: Covering the Costs
Part VII: Negotiating an Offer
Chapter Forty-eight: Don’t Be Afraid to Negotiate
Chapter Forty-nine: The Rare and Elusive Spousal Offer
Chapter Fifty: The Rescinded Offer–Who Is In the Wrong?
Part VIII: Grants and Postdocs
Chapter Fifty-one: The Foolproof Grant Template
Chapter Fifty-two: Proving Your Project is Worthy
Chapter Fifty-three: The Postdoc Application: How It’s Different and Why
Chapter Fifty-four: The Good and the Bad of Postdocs
Part IX: Some Advice About Advisors
Chapter Fifty-five: Best Advisors, Worst Advisors
Chapter Fifty-six: A Good Advisor Is Not Nice
Chapter Fifty-seven: Ph.D. Debt and Ethical Advising
Part X: Leaving the Cult
Chapter Fifty-eight: It’s OK to Quit
Chapter Fifty-nine: Let Yourself Dream
Chapter Sixty: 100+ Skills That Translate Outside the Academy
Chapter Sixty-one: Collecting Information
Chapter Sixty-two: Applying While Ph.D.
Chapter Sixty-three: Breaking Free: The Path of the Entrepreneur
Conclusion: Declaring Independence