Preparing for Careers in Academia Workshop

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The Academic Job Search with Julie Vick, co-author of "The Academic Job Search Handbook"
October 8, 2015 
Royce Hall 314
12:00pm - 2:00pm

Join Julie Miller Vick for this session on how to prepare for the academic job market, specifically focused on how one can be a highly competitive candidate. This session will cover:

Preparing to Apply: Determine readiness to go on the market, understand the job market cycle and how search committees work, prepare your written materials for the job search, identify job opportunities.

Interviewing:  Preparing for screening interviews and campus interviews (including the job talk), negotiating and accepting offers, and what to do if you don’t get an offer. 

About the Presenter: Julie Miller Vick has been providing career services and advice to University of Pennsylvania graduate students and graduate alumni since 1985 and to Penn Postdoctoral fellows since 1999.  She has tracked and monitored the academic job landscape over several decades as the co-author with Jennifer S. Furlong and Rosanne Lurie of the Academic Job Search Handbook (University of Pennsylvania Press, fifth ed.) due late in 2015.  (she co-authored the 4th edition with Jennifer S. Furlong and 1st-3rd editions with Mary Morris Heiberger)
This session is open to UCLA Graduate Students and UCLA Postdoctoral Scholars.

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