Three Rivers Press CA</br></br>Product Description</br></br><b>The definitive career guide for grad students adjuncts post-docs and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their Ph.D.  into their ideal job</b><br>  <br> Each year tens of thousands of students will after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money earn their Ph.D. And each year only a small percentage of them will land a job that justifies and rewards their investment. For every comfortably tenured professor or well-paid former academic there are countless underpaid and overworked adjuncts and many more who simply give up in frustration.<br>  <br> Those who <i>do</i> make it share an important asset that separates them from the pack: they have a plan. They understand exactly what they need to do to set themselves up for success.  They know what really moves the needle in academic job searches how to avoid the all-too-common mistakes that sink so many of their peers and how to decide when to point their Ph.D. toward other non-academic options.<br>  <br> Karen Kelsky has made it her mission to help readers join the select few who get the most out of their Ph.D. As a former tenured professor and d