Doctoral Student Skills
eBook - ePub

Doctoral Student Skills

Using Your Comparative Advantage to Succeed in Grad School and Prepare for the Job Market

  1. 258 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Doctoral Student Skills

Using Your Comparative Advantage to Succeed in Grad School and Prepare for the Job Market

About this book

Doctoral Student Skills offers a comprehensive overview of the key skills doctoral students need to succeed in their studies and prepare for academic and non-academic jobs. Revealing the often-hidden rules of graduate school success, it guides students through challenges like selecting a research topic, choosing an advisor, preparing for conferences, publishing their work, and entering the job market.

The book begins by explaining how to survey the job market and identify "signifiers" that will signal to future employers the student's suitability for a job. It then guides students to reflect on their own experiences and abilities to identify their areas of comparative advantage. Providing detailed instructions on how to acquire key signifiers – including conference presentations, publications, grants, awards, and teaching experience – the volume prepares students for future professional success, while teaching them how to leverage these activities to enhance their progress in their present studies. The book is designed to be used as a course text or for self-study. Each chapter features reflective exercises that can be used individually or in small groups, along with recommended readings and additional resources to enhance student learning.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2022
eBook ISBN
9781000615166
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Endorsements
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. 1 The Need to Develop Professional Skills
  9. 2 Responding to the Job Market
  10. 3 Developing a Roadmap to Marketability
  11. 4 Finding Your Comparative Advantage
  12. 5 Developing Your Research Agenda
  13. 6 Engaging with Your Advisor
  14. 7 Applying to Your First Conference and Writing an Abstract
  15. 8 Attending Your First Conference
  16. 9 Publishing Your First Article
  17. 10 Winning Funding
  18. 11 Getting Started in Teaching
  19. 12 Managing Your Time and Motivation
  20. 13 Going on the Job Market
  21. References
  22. Index