Presents a guide to preparing a résumé and conducting a job search, including information on looking beyond classified ads, creating a résumé, writing cover letters, and interviewing for positions.

"This compelling book will help you to identify what you're really good at and discover how to market and sell yourself using the power of your personal brand"--Back cover.

BEFORE YOU SAY "I QUIT!"Before You Say "I QUIT!" is an essential tool for anyone who frustrated with his or her job situation and has at least considered the idea of resigning. This book provides an organized approach to deciding when -and if- quitting is the best choice and how to implement the decision. It takes you through a step-by-step evaluative process that includes quizzes and worksheets to help you make the correct choices at critical junctures in your work life. Holloway and Bishop offer a complete blend of solid career advice and sound psychological counseling to help you determine the source of your job dissatisfaction, develop new job options, devise a career/life plan, make the most of your final days at a job, handle exit interviews, and answer potential new employer's questions as to why you left your position."An indispensable guide for anyone considering quitting his/her job. I highly recommend it!"Linda Tell, Ph.D. Vocational Evaluator"One of the best books to read BEFORE you quit tour job."Michelle Newton, B.A., Job DeveloperAbout The Authors: Diane Holloway, Ph.D., is a certified career counselor who has been in private practice as a management consultant and psychotherapist in Dallas for many years.Nancy Bishop is the author of How to Get a Job in Dallas/Fort Worth. She is also senior editor for the Southeastern bureau of Adweek magazine.

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.

A comprehensive guide to landing one of the hundreds of thousands of jobs filled each year by the nation''s largest employerOC the U.S. government."

PEOPLE WILL NOT READ YOUR RESUME. On average, people spend six seconds reviewing your resume. Six seconds! That