Chanon Adsanatham 11514 chanonumdedu Fourth year of PhD Rigorous dissertation writing year fellowship Mental transition student scholar Schools want colleague scholar ID: 784206
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Preparing a Successful Job Market Entrance
Chanon
Adsanatham
11.5.14
chanon@umd.edu
Slide2Fourth year of PhD
Rigorous dissertation writing year: fellowship
Mental transition: student
scholar
Schools want: colleague
/
scholar
—not
graduate student
don’t appear grad
studentish
in your job documents, interview and campus visit
Slide3Fourth Year of PhD
Spring 2013
Goal: Complete 3 of 5
diss
chapters
Identified 2 writing samples
1 publication1 diss chapter Identified chapter for job talk
Slide4Fourth Year of PhD: Spring 2013
March
Presented the most interesting chapter at CCCC
Workshoped
the same chapter at research roundtable with researchers in the field
April
Presented chapter at fellowship symposium Took hard questionsCleaned up online presence: Facebook, blogs
Drafted
website:
www.chanon.org
Slide5Fourth Year of PhD: Spring 2013
May
Finalized CV
Finished
3
rd
chapter Summer
Drafted
4
th
chapter
Assembled teaching portfolio
teaching
phil
course
evals
(numeric and verbal data)
sample assignments
syllabi
Drafted
dossier
Slide6What’s a dossier?
Other pieces employer may request:
1) Teaching portfolio 2) Research agenda 3) Administrative philosophy (
rhet
/comp only)
Slide7Does this look like a dossier of a scholar-teacher or a graduate student?
Slide85th
Year of PhD:
My Mantra
Is it
gonna
help me finish my dissertation or help me get a job?
Slide9Fall 2014: Job Market Season
August-September
Finalized dossier
Taught 2 classes
Launched website
Attended weekly job mentoring meetings
Started therapy
October
Sent apps: applied broadly (ideal and not ideal jobs)
Practiced mock interviews
Designed sample grad and undergrad courses
Reviewed & interviewed applicants
Slide10Fall: Job Market Season
November + December
Skype & phone interviews
Researched schools for interviews
Practiced job talk
First campus visit
Sent apps January
Sent apps
MLA interviews
Campus
visits
Job offers
Negotiation
Mid Feb.
A
ccepted job
D
iss
writing resumed
Slide11Tips
Plan
NOW!
Start from year one.
Review CVs
of recently hired people at places you
prefer to teach & plan. Map backward: professionalize from year one 4 scholarship things a year: publications (article, interview, book review) and conference presentations—1 should be a publication
Scaffold seminar papers toward higher aims
paper
conference article
paper
diss
chapter
Slide12Tips cont.
Find a professionalization mentor—need not be your adviser.
Review
your CV progress w/ a mentor
every spring
. Go in with a CV. How’s my progress? How well am I building a professional ethos?
Eliminate the dream job mentality or romanticized ideals. Apply broadly: Use jobs you don’t care much for as practice interviews. Do NOT over do service
or administrative duties
rhet
/comp students
beware.
Have a focused, coherent scholarly identity as a specialist—don’t be disorganized
or
scattered by claiming too many fields of
expertise
.
Make summer productive: write, revise, submit.
Dissertation
progress is
CRUCIAL
before app season.
Slide13The Big Question Year 5
Does this look like a dossier of a scholar-teacher or a graduate student?
Slide14Timeline
This was a sample yearly plan of a doctoral student. Yours need not be exactly the same; it probably shouldn’t be. Consult your adviser to develop a viable plan appropriate to your goals and needs.
Year One
Sent out a book review, presented at conferences, attended summer institute in your area of interest
Year Two
Sent out article, presented at conferences, taught a new course
Read professionalization advice columns Year Three Sent out another article and book reviews, competed for awards (teaching, research) and dissertation fellowship, obtained administrative positions in writing programs, taught another new course
Year Four
Dissertation writing, job market prep
Sent out a lower stake
manuscript: conference proceedings
Year Five
Job market, taught classes
Slide15Key Questions for
Job Market Success
Scholarly Identity
Who are you in terms of a scholarly profile and academic identity?
What are your areas of
expertise? (not interests
)How do they connect?Are you a scholar-teacher/teacher-scholar?How does your dossier present you: as scholar, teacher-researcher, graduate student? Scholarly Intervention
What is the major intervention (contribution) your dissertation or research is making? Why should people give a damn?
Slide16Key Questions for
Job Market
Success
Dissertation S
uccinctness
(for ABD candidates only)
What are the key arguments and important details of the different chapters of your dissertation? Can you give a coherent pitch of your dissertation? 10 minute version, 5 minute version, 3 minute version, 1 minute version
Research Agenda
(Productive Potential)
Do
you have a
clear, coherent
research
trajectory?
When
the
diss
is done, what’s next?
What is your research plan in 1-7 years?
Teaching
What
is your teaching
style and philosophy
?
What new courses can
you add to
a department? How will you teach them?
What existing courses can you teach, and how will you teach them?
Slide17Resources on Job Market and Professionalization
Print
The PhD Handbook for the Academic Job Search
by
Coghill-Behrends
& Anthony
The Academic Job Search Handbook by Vick and Furlong WebTheprofessorisin.com Chronicle.com advice tab Insidehighered.com
career advice
C
hroniclevitae.com
/news