TY - BOOK AU - Boden,Rebecca AU - Epstein,Debbie AU - Kenway,Jane Edith TI - Building Your Academic Career T2 - The Academic's Support Kit SN - 9781849202152 AV - LB1778 -- .B62 2005eb U1 - 378.002 PY - 2007/// CY - London PB - SAGE Publications KW - College teachers KW - College teaching -- Vocational guidance KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/buse-ebooks/detail.action?docID=420882 ER -