Obtaining Employment
On-line articles
These on-line articles offer specific career advice, first-person narratives,
professional development guidelines, and broader speculations about the intellectual
roles of Ph.D.'s working outside academia. Refer to the Publications
page for printed materials dealing with Ph.D. career development and a parallel
list of On-line articles
under Professional Development Resources
dealing with succeeding during graduate school. See the
"Selected Bibliography on Doctoral Education"
for information about re-envisioning doctoral education from the
perspectives of many stakeholders.
This list is not exhaustive, and we welcome additional suggestions at envision@u.washington.edu.
Advancing Your Career
http://chronicle.com/jobs/archive/topical/advance_career.htm
A collection of articles from The Chronicle of Higher Education offering
advice on advancing an academic career.
Bad Brakes Send Scientist to Biotechnology
http://www.the-scientist.com/yr2002/jan/prof1_020121.html
Biographical account of one scientist's transition from being a researcher in
academia to being CEO of a biotechnology company. Read another former
academic's response to this article in "Letter:
Academia to Industry," http://www.the-scientist.com/yr2002/feb/let_020204.html.
Before You Go On the Job Market
http://chronicle.com/jobs/archive/topical/before_market.htm
A collection of articles from The Chronicle of Higher Education dealing
with going on the academic job market.
Conducting a Search
http://chronicle.com/jobs/archive/topical/conduct_search.htm
A collection of articles from The Chronicle of Higher Education
about conducting an academic job search.
Five Rules that Might Save Your
Career
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2001/10/2001103001c.htm
Daniel Kowalsky, an adjunct, elaborates on five rules that experience has shown
him are associated with success in academe.
Four Steps to
Succeeding Outside the Ivory Tower http://www.salon.com/it/career/1999/03/29career.html
Jennifer Stone Gonzalez describes the intellectual transition
from academia to the business world.
Getting Great Letters of
Recommendation
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2001/02/2001020202c.htm
Richard Reis explains the importance of recommendation letters and how to get
letters that will help in the academic job search.
Getting the Job
http://chronicle.com/jobs/archive/topical/get_job.htm
A collection of articles from The Chronicle of Higher Education
about applying for an academic position, weighing offers, negotiating terms, and
more.
How I Got My Job
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2002/01/2002012103c.htm
An assistant professor of English describes the struggle to land a tenure-track
position.
Journeyman: Getting
Into and Out of Academia
http://pweb.jps.net/~aspang/journeyman/
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, a history-of-science Ph.D., explains how
to make the transition from academic to other work and still be a
productive scholar.
Moving to a Nonacademic Job
http://chronicle.com/jobs/archive/topical/non_academic.htm
A collection of articles from The Chronicle of Higher Education
about looking for and transitioning into a postacademic job.
Networking: A Career Necessity
http://www.the-scientist.com/yr2002/mar/prof1_020304.html
Explains why networking via email, conferences, and other interpersonal contact
is essential for scientists to advance their academic careers.
The Ones We Didn't Hire
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2002/02/2002021201c.htm
A dean describes common mistakes made by candidates invited for on-campus
interviews. For a more humorous account of the absurdities on both sides
of the interviewing process, read The
Campus Visit by a department chair.
Pimping a Ph.D.
http://www.salon.com/books/it/1999/12/13/intellectual_entrepreneurs/
A narrative account by a participant in the University of Texas at Austin 's
"Intellectual
Entrepreneurship Program."
Postdoc Life at Liberal Colleges,
Parts I
and II
Part I
explains how postdocs benefit from teaching at small liberal-arts colleges, and Part
II explores some of the difficulties postdocs frequently encounter on small
college campuses.
Postdoc Trails: Long and Filled
With Pitfalls
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/21/science/physical/21POST.html?searchpv=day07
Details some of the problems common to postdoctoral positions.
Profession Archive
http://www.the-scientist.com/professionarchive.htm
A collection of articles from The Scientist about academic and
nonacademic careers.
A Professor's First Year: the
Dark Side
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v48/i03/03b01501.htm
A fifth-year professor describes the lows and highs of the first year of
teaching at a small liberal-arts college.
Sellout Studies and Scholarship
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2001/05/2001052503c.htm
In the same vein as "Journeyman" (see above), Kevin Walzer
writes about how to maintain one's identity and work as a scholar after
academia. A year later, in The
Pleasure of Publishing, he writes about continuing his love of poetry
through Word Press, a publishing company he and his wife founded.
Three Differences Between an Academic and an Intellectual: What
Happens to the Liberal Arts When They Are Kicked Off Campus?
http://www.crosscurrents.org/miles.htm Jack Miles, 1996 Pulitzer Prize winner,
speculates about whether intellectuals outside of academia will become
the main carriers of the humanist tradition, and how that might in turn
affect the humanities themselves.
Toward a Responsive Doctorate
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2002/02/2002021101c.htm
Robert Weisbuch of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation discusses
the necessity for making the Ph.D. more relevant to the
world beyond academe.
Where Ph.D.'s Morph Into M.B.A.'s
http://www.the-scientist.com/yr2001/jun/prof_010625.html
At management consulting firms, scientists apply their analytical
expertise to answer tough business questions.
Why You'll Want a Mentor Outside the Ivory Tower, Too
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2001/12/2001120702c.htm
How and why to find mentors outside the ivory tower.
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