Getting an Academic Job

Strategies for Success
1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-0-8039-7015-1
Verlag: Sage Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 119 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 162 g

Reihe: Survival Skills for Scholars

You have almost finished graduate school and you are wondering. How do I get that first academic job? Authors Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld and Marcia Lynn Whicker lead their readers through the basics: Are your sights set too high or not high enough? Are you prepared for the campus interview? Have you shown your seriousness about your career through your publications? These questions and many more are thoroughly covered in Getting An Academic Job, a brief yet practical guide to successfully entering the academic job market. Getting An Academic Job provides examples from a multitude of disciplines and academic settings and will be an essential guide to any graduate student.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kronenfeld, Jennie Jacobs

Whicker, Marcia Lynn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Nature of Job Searches
Searching for a Job
The Job Interview
Landing the Right Job
Special Considerations
Dual Career Couples, Senior Positions and Non-Academic Jobs
The DOs and DON'Ts of Job Searching

Über Autor(innen)

Kronenfeld, Jennie Jacobs
Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld is a professor in the Sociology Program in the School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University. Her research areas are medical sociology and aging and the life course with a special focus on health policy, health care utilization, and health behavior. She has recently published Medicare by Greenwood Press (2011) and serves as the editor of the research annual Research in the Sociology of Health and Health Care published each year by Emerald Press. She is co-editor of Health and Associate Editor In Chief of American Journal of Health Promotion. Her current research interests in addition to health policy include research on gender and health, and research on aspects of obesity as linked to social factors.