Product Description

Shows what is required to make a continuing career in academic research and gives advice on taking alternative career paths. The authors provide advice on sources of advertised and unadvertised vacancies as well as practical search skills.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #748234 in Books
• Published on: 2000-02-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 200 pages

From the Back Cover
In todays competitive market a higher degree will not necessarily lead to an academic career in higher education. Researchers need to know how to enhance their career prospects and how to look further into the wide range of career options open to them elsewhere.

Moving On in Your Career shows researchers what is required to make a continuing career in academic research or lecturing and gives advice on taking alternative career paths. Barbara Graham and Lynda Ali draw on their experience of careers guidance in higher education to outline various options in which researchers can use the skills developed at university. They advise on sources of advertised and unadvertised vacancies and how to use methods such as speculative applications and the internet. Moving On in Your Career also provides practical exercises and ideas to enhance essential job-search and self-presentation skills.

With its special focus on the skills acquired through academic research and how to use them to pursue a wide rarie