Building Your Academic Career (The Academic's Support Kit)

"Building Your Academic Career" encourages you to take a proactive approach to getting what you want out of academic work whilst being a good colleague. We discuss the advantages and disadvantages of such a career, the routes in and the various elements that shape current academic working lives.In the second half of the book, we deal in considerable detail with how to write a really good CV (resume) and how best to approach securing an academic job or promotion.