Building Your Academic Career.
Material type: TextSeries: The Academic's Support KitPublisher: London : SAGE Publications, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (132 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781849202152Subject(s): College teachers | College teaching -- Vocational guidanceGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Building Your Academic CareerDDC classification: 378.002 LOC classification: LB1778 -- .B62 2005ebOnline resources: Click to ViewCover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 - Who should use this book and how? -- 2 - Why have an academic career? -- 3 - Shaping up: academic anatomies -- 4 - Presenting Yourself: Vita Statistics -- 5 - Getting a job, getting promoted -- 6 - Balancing Acts: between work and life -- Further Reading -- Index.
Building Your Academic Career encourages you to take a proactive approach to getting what you want out of academic work whilst being a good colleague. We discuss the advantages and disadvantages of such a career, the routes in and the various elements that shape current academic working lives. In the second half of the book we deal in considerable detail with how to write a really good CV (résumé) and how best to approach securing an academic job or promotion.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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