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Readings and Resources‹ Understand Expectations | Job Search Advice.Home Page | Focusing Your Application Materials › Here is [a] very helpful article, sponsored by Lore. <http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/lore-sp04/strategies/content.htm?js01> The Economics of Completing the Dissertation and Getting a Job: Actual Expenses and Economic Considerations Relating to a National Academic Job Search and the Final Year of Dissertation Writing Beth Burmester, Assistant Professor, Georgia State University (The prices refer to a 2002–2003 job search.) NCTE just published a new guide for grad students. It isn’t specific to the job search but rather gets at Todd’s advice to begin planning for it early. I read the manuscript in draft and found it really useful—practical but substantive and thoughtful. It also covers all different specialties—creative writing, lit, comprhet—and types of grad programs—masters and doctoral levels. It provides job search and interview advice for both academic and non-academic jobs. I think it would be a great resource for programs as well as individual students. Here’s the blurb from the NCTE press release (below): A Guide to Professional Development for Graduate Students in EnglishCindy Moore and Hildy Miller Written in response to nationwide calls for more comprehensive and deliberate mentoring of future English faculty and for greater support of students who wish to pursue English-oriented jobs outside of the academy, this guide, the first of its kind, is at once practical and eye-opening. Providing detailed information about how to develop credentials for both academic and nonacademic careers in teaching, scholarship, administration, service, and editing, the guide offers an in-depth look at the field’s many possibilities. On another level, the book addresses the rigors and stresses of graduate school by candidly discussing faculty expectations, student responsibilities, and a variety of “survival strategies. Order toll free at 877–369–6283 or 800–369–6283 Order online anytime at www.ncte.org
Whether you are already enrolled in a graduate program or have just begun to consider program options, this resource can help you identify long-term career goals as well as the skills and abilities needed to meet those goals. 155 pp. 2006. College. ISBN 978–0−8141–1923–5No. 19235 $22.95 member/$30.95 nonmember
Here’s an excellent resource: Thomas, Trudelle Demystifying the job search: A guide for candidates College Composition and Communication 40.3 (1989) 312–328 [F]our books on the market [are] aimed at the course (I call mine a workshop at the U of AZ—new since you left). The best is by Kathryn Hume, Surviving Your Academic Job Hunt, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. I also use the MLA Guide to the Job Search, 1996 and a bit dated. The course turns out to be a kind of capstone for grad study, an introduction to American higher education (just what is tenure? academic freedom? “publish or perish,” and so on), and a support group for people under great stress. It’s a great teaching experience. ‹ Understand Expectations | Job Search Advice.Home Page | Focusing Your Application Materials › |