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the_lady_lily) wrote2011-01-30 01:55 pm
the_lady_lily) wrote2011-01-30 01:55 pm
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Outside the Ivory Tower: A Guide for Academics Considering Alternative Careers - Margaret Newhouse
Yes, this is another in the circuit of WTF do I do if I don't get a job in academia next year books. It was one of those recommended by So What Are You Going to Do With That? and was flagged up as being a bit tricky to get hold of. And indeed it was - it was originally published, I think, as an in-house publication for Harvard graduate students, and thus does refer a lot to specialist in-house resources that were available at the time of publication (1993). The date also means that - well, let us say that things like e-mail and word processors haven't quite made it into the job-hunting world at this point, which is a bit of a pain.
That said, there were some useful charts of skills and job/interest tables that have helped confirm and enlarge some of the directions my mind had been going in of its own accord. Still a lot of thinking and mulling to do, but this helped a bit. I wouldn't recommend going to it as a first resource, or indeed recommend hunting it out for its own sake - a lot of the information had already turned up either in So What or in What Colour is your Parachute?, in a way that acknowledges, heaven forfend, modern technology. But I'm glad I had a flick through it anyway.
Yes, this is another in the circuit of WTF do I do if I don't get a job in academia next year books. It was one of those recommended by So What Are You Going to Do With That? and was flagged up as being a bit tricky to get hold of. And indeed it was - it was originally published, I think, as an in-house publication for Harvard graduate students, and thus does refer a lot to specialist in-house resources that were available at the time of publication (1993). The date also means that - well, let us say that things like e-mail and word processors haven't quite made it into the job-hunting world at this point, which is a bit of a pain.
That said, there were some useful charts of skills and job/interest tables that have helped confirm and enlarge some of the directions my mind had been going in of its own accord. Still a lot of thinking and mulling to do, but this helped a bit. I wouldn't recommend going to it as a first resource, or indeed recommend hunting it out for its own sake - a lot of the information had already turned up either in So What or in What Colour is your Parachute?, in a way that acknowledges, heaven forfend, modern technology. But I'm glad I had a flick through it anyway.