"So What Are You Going to Do with That?"
Finding Careers Outside Academia, Third Edition
- Contents
- Review Quotes

Preface
Introduction
1. Will I Have to Wear a Suit? Rethinking Life After Graduate School
Getting Your Head Ready
Should I Finish My Dissertation?
How to Use Your Grad School Years Wisely
So What Am I Going to Do?
Five Myths about Post-Academic Careers
Five Questions about Graduate School and Your Future
Your Eclectic Mix
Post-Academic Profile: Abby Markoe, A.B.D History of Medicine, Executive, Director, SquashWise
2. How Do I Figure Out What Else to Do? Soul-Searching Before Job Searching
Take Inventory
Break It Down
Looking backward: Seven Stories
Guilty Pleasures
“This Is Your Brain on Graduate School”
No Need for a #2 Pencil
Where Are All Those PhDs Anyway?
Create Your own Possibilities
Post-Academic Profile: Samantha Sutton, PhD in Biology, Life Coach
3. Asking the Big Questions: How to Figure Out If You Want Them and If They Want You
Asking the Big Questions
Answering the Big Questions: Three Strategies
Transitional Tales
So What’s Next?
Post-Academic Profile: Xiuwen Tu, PhD in Physics, Sun Power Corporation, Device and Characterization Engineer
4. This Might Hurt a Bit: Turning a CV into a Résumé
Getting Ready to Write a Résumé
Writing a Résumé: The First Draft
A Few More Words of Advice
After You’ve Drafted a Résumé
Case Studies and Sample Résumés
Cover Letters That Will Get You Hired
Post-Academic Profile: Alyssa Picard, PhD in History, Staff Representative for the Michigan Affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers
5. Sweaty Palms, Warm Heart: How to Turn an Interview into a Job
Before the Interview
During the Interview
After the Interview
What If the Interview Doesn’t Go Well?
The Job Offer (or Lack Thereof)
Negotiation
Adjusting to Your New Job
Post-Academic Profile: Scott Keeter, PhD in Political Science, Director of Survey Research, Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
Conclusion
Education: Higher Education
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