Surviving Your Academic Job Hunt: Advice for Humanities PhDs

Surviving Your Academic Job Hunt: Advice for Humanities PhDs
ISBN-10
1403978921
ISBN-13
9781403978929
Category
Education
Pages
219
Language
English
Published
2005-01-14
Publisher
Springer
Author
K. Hume

Description

This book is a guide to securing an academic post in the humanities in a US University. It includes best-practice examples of application documents and shows how to work up answers to the questions posed in phone, conference, and campus interviews. Readers will also learn about bargaining for subsidies and start-up packages. The book can be used by Careers Officers to train students, or by job hunters training themselves. This short, lively read gives practical, solid advice which will help candidates to transform their mindset from student to faculty.

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