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 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. Those who do 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. 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 department head who oversaw numerous academic job searches, she knows from experience exactly what gets an academic applicant a job. And as the creator of the popular and widely respected advice site The Professor is In, she has helped countless Ph.D.’s turn themselves into stronger applicants and land their dream careers. Now, for the first time ever, Karen has poured all her best advice into a single handy guide that addresses the most important issues facing any Ph.D., including: -When, where, and what to publish -Writing a foolproof grant application -Cultivating references and crafting the perfect CV -Acing the job talk and campus interview -Avoiding the adjunct trap -Making the leap to nonacademic work, when the time is right The Professor Is In addresses all of these issues, and many more.

The Basic Research Plan is a dynamic document that is updated every two years. It describes ongoing work as well as planning activities and past accomplishments that can be traced to earlier basic research. It serves to inform both performers and managers of the research as well as to provide military planners with an overview of the entire program. Its ultimate purpose is and remains that of providing the warfighter with superior and affordable technology, whether waging war or enforcing the peace. This fifth edition of the Basic Research Plan is an updated and amplified version of the February 2001 Plan. Each plan serves to focus, integrate and describe the Department of Defense (DoD) investment in a world-class research program. To link basic research to broad, revolutionary 21st century military capabilities requires planning. In the case of a strategic program like basic research, planning involves not so much solving individual problems, but rather whole strategic technology areas that should address still unrealized but envisioned future military capabilities. Historically, basic research has initiated scientific and engineering breakthroughs that started previously undreamed of technological revolutions. There is no reason to doubt that we can do so again.