The Compleat Academic: A Career Guide [Paperback]

John M. Darley (Editor), Mark P. Zanna (Editor), Henry L. Roediger (Editor), American Psychological Association (Corporate Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1591470358 | ISBN-13: 978-1591470359 | Publication Date: July 2003 | Edition: 2

A new career in academia can be a challenge. While academia's formal rules are published in faculty handbooks, its implicit rules are often difficult to discern. Like the first edition, this new and expanded volume of The Compleat Academic is filled with practical and valuable advice to help new academics set the best course for a lasting and vibrant career. This volume guides readers through academia's informal rules and describes the problems beginning social scientists will face. With humor and insight, leading academics share the lessons they have learned through their own hard experience. Individual chapters present the ins and outs of the hiring process; the advantages of a postdoctoral fellowship; expert strategies for managing a teaching load; insider and applicant advice for winning a research grant; detailed instructions for writing and publishing a journal article; and a straightforward explanation about intellectual property issues. The book also addresses the latter stages of a career. It offers thoughtful suggestions for keeping one's career dynamic. Chapters that provide specific information for minorities, women, and clinical psychologists are also included. The volume even presents options for working outside of academia. This book provides invaluable guidance that will help new academics plan, play, and ultimately win the academic career game.

Editorial Reviews

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...helps graduate students negotiate the treacherous path to becoming successful academics....Professors should buy the book as gifts for their students, and department chairpersons should buy it for their beginning assistant professors.
—Contemporary Psychology

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Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn; 2 edition (July 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591470358
• ISBN-13: 978-1591470359
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #177,553 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars definitely worth buying, July 19, 2005

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E. A. Kelley - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Compleat Academic: A Career Guide (Paperback)

I was a little disappointed with the depth of the coverage given to the job-search process (probably because that's my main focus right now), but I still think that this book will come in very handy in the future. If you are a psychology major thinking about grad school, a psychology graduate student, or a psychology professor at the beginning of their career, this book has a lot of useful information. There are some missing data spots, but no book is perfect of course.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars No Table of Contents??, September 8, 2011

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Marcus Strom "MJS" (AZ) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Compleat Academic: A Career Guide (Kindle Edition)

The content of this book is excellent and knowledge well understood by the author.
But the 1-star is for lack of appropriate Kindle set-up of this book: There is NO Table of Contents for navigation! This makes navigating this book awful, especially if you like to jump chapters. You have to flip pages constantly or use the slider to GUESS the beginning of a chapter. And the useless "screen count" never helps with this.
The fact that I paid MORE then the paperback version was the ultimate insult. I want my money back OR an updated version WITH a functional table of contents please!!

5 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A research psychologist's bible, March 14, 2006

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Anna Berlin "Anna B." (Athens, Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Compleat Academic: A Career Guide (Paperback)

This book is a must have for anyone in or considering a career in academia as a psychologist. It offers wonderful perspectives for what you should and should not do at all stages of your academic career. As a psychology grad student, I am recommending it to all of my peers. I could not be happier with this book. It is a wonderful source of professional guidance and inspiration.