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Job Search in Academe
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Acknowledgments A (Fore.Word From The Employment Line—Kristina Mesaros, Carla Maroudas, and Kevin Degnan Introduction: Becoming Literate in the Employment Line: Dr. Strangefield Or: How We Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Job Search Case Study 1: To Enter the Job Market Fray or Not? 1. Writing the Script: The Application Process Case Study 2: Making Your File Work—Personalize! 2. The Callback:The Professional Conference Interview Case Study 3: The (Somewhat. Lighter Side of the Academic Job Search 3. The Screen Test: The Campus Interview Case Study 4: My Job Search: A Cinderella Story Case Study 5: It Can Be Done—Getting a Tenure-Track Job as an ABD in the Humanities 4. Rehearsing for Ad-Libbing: Preparing for (Un.Anticipated Interview Questions Case Study 6: The Ghosts in the Machine: Women of Color and the Job Market 5. The Awards Ceremony: Negotiating The University Job Contract Or Deciding to "Leave Showbiz" Case Study 7: Managing Negotiations With The Clock Ticking Case Study 8: The Academic Couple Case Study 9: Reading, Writing, And Ramen: An Academic Couple’s Search for Sustainable Employment Case Study 10: The Corporate Interview 6. Best Performance In An Underfunded Public Drama: The Tenure-Track Professorship At The Community College Case Study 11: A Community College Candidate’s Perspective Case Study 12: Tale Of Two Interviews: How Failing To Get the Job Can Still Lead to Important Insight Case Study 13: Calling On Your Professional Experience: Securing a Votech (Vocational Technology. Teaching Position Epilogue: In The Director’s Chair:Being an Ethical Academic Advisor to Students Preparing for the Job Search Appendixes All Appendixes Are Available Online at www.Styluspub.Com/Resrcs/User/Jsappendix.Pdf Appendix 1: Finding News About The Academy And The Academic Job Market and Locating Jobs Across the Disciplines Appendix 2: Finding a Job Announcement in Your Field Appendix 3: Sample Application Packets Sample Humanities Packet for a Tenure-Track Position at a Research/Teaching University Sample Humanities Packet for a Lateral Move Tenure-Track Position at a Research/Teaching University Sample Humanities Packet for a Tenure-Track Position at a Community College Sample Science Packet for an Assistant Professor Tenure-Track Position at a Research/Teaching University Sample Science Packet for an Associate Professor Tenure-Track Position at a Research/Teaching University Sample Social Science Packet for an Assistant Professor Tenure-Track Position at a Research/Teaching University Sample Packet With Electronic Vitae for a Tenure-Track Position at a Research/Teaching University Sample Resume for a Non-Faculty Academic Position Sample Corporate Resume Appendix 4: Suggested Reading And Resource List

About the Author

Dawn M. Formo is Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor, Literature and Writing at California State University, San Marcos

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"As an updated edition of a 1999 title, this book takes an account of the vast changes along the path to employment over the past dozen years. It is a handbook for those who have master’s or doctoral degrees in hand and are in need of a first job or of a new one, either within academe or outside its walls. The book carries the prospective employee from writing the CV to negotiating the contract and on to doing the hiring. This edition adds advice for minority candidates and job seekers in the sciences."- Diverse Issues in Higher Education"With a great deal of wit, with a whole lot of common sense, Dawn Formo and Cheryl Reed have produced a ‘handbook’ which will be invaluable to job seekers."Ross Winterowd - , from the foreword to the first edition"This extremely savvy guide to the academic job search and application, interviewing, and negotiation process really works….it just helped my son land a tenure-track position in a major university."- Planning/Communications on the first edition terms.

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