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The Professor Is in: The Essential Guide to Turning Your PhD Into a Job

The Professor Is in: The Essential Guide to Turning Your PhD Into a Job

Kelsky, Karen

Paperback

CareersGeneral Education

Publisher Price: $22.00

ISBN10: 0553419420
ISBN13: 9780553419429
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Published: Aug 4 2015
Pages: 576
Weight: 0.90
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
UPDATED FOR 2026 - The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs, and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their PhD into their ideal job--now refreshed with new material to equip readers for today's job market

If you want unvarnished straight talk about the academic job market--and how to navigate it--then heed Karen Kelsky, and heed her now.--Rebecca Schuman, education columnist for Slate

Each year thousands of students earn their PhDs, but only a small percentage land a job. For every tenured professor or well-paid former academic, there are countless underpaid and overworked adjuncts, and many who simply give up in frustration.

Karen Kelsky has made it her mission to help readers solve the mystery of the academic job market. As a former tenured professor and department head, and the creator of the popular and widely respected advice site TheProfessorIsIn, she has helped thousands land their dream careers. With The Professor Is In, Dr. Kelsky has poured all her best advice into a guide that addresses the most important issues facing any PhD, including:

- When, where, and what to publish

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