As a preview for the event, we would like to share this article from the Chronicle with some helpful advice about your Graduate experience. This article comes highly recommended by your EGSA board and GW faculty.
March 27, 2012
Brian Taylor for The
Chronicle
By Karen Kelsky
One of the most common questions I hear from
graduate students, whether they are in their first or their final year, is what
they can donow to prepare for the academic job market.
Excellent question. As a graduate student, your
fate is in your own hands, and every decision you make—including whether to go
to graduate school at all, which program to go to, which adviser to choose, and
how to conduct yourself while there—can and should be made with an eye to the
job you wish to have at the end.
To do otherwise is pure madness. I have no patience whatsoever
with the "love" narrative (we do what we do because we love it and
money/jobs play no role) that prevails among some advisers, departments, and
profoundly mystified graduate students. But for those graduate students and
Ph.D.'s who actually want a paying tenure-track job and the things that go with
it—health insurance, benefits, and financial security—here is my list of
graduate-school rules, forged after years of working in academe as a former
tenured professor and now running my own career-advising business for doctoral
students.
Early in Graduate
School
Never forget this primary rule: Graduate school
is not your job; graduate school is a means to the job you want. Do not settle
in to your graduate department like a little hamster burrowing in the wood
shavings. Stay alert with your eye always on a national stage, poised for the
next opportunity, whatever it is: to present a paper, attend a conference, meet
a scholar in your field, forge a connection, gain a professional skill...(click on the link to read the full article).
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