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In today's highly competitive job market a higher degree will not necessarily lead to a career in higher education. Researchers need to know how to enhance their career prospects and how to look further into the wide range of career options open to them elsewhere. Moving On in Your Career shows researchers what is required to make a continuing career in academic research or lecturing and gives advice on taking alternative career paths. The authors draw on their expertise in careers guidance in higher education to outline the various options in which researchers can use the skills they have developed in university. They advise on sources of advertised and unadvertised vacancies and how to use methods such as speculative applications and the Internet. They also provide practical exercises and ideas on how to enhance essential job-search and self-presentation skills. With its special focus on the skills acquired through academic research and how to use them to pursue a wide variety of career options, this book will prove invaluable for postgraduate students and researchers, as well as careers advisors responsible for students and researchers.
This volume aims to show researchers what is required to make a
continuing career in academic research or lecturing and gives
advice on taking alternative career paths. The authors advise on
sources of advertised and unadvertised vacancies and how to use
methods such as speculative applications and the Internet. They
also provide practical exercises and ideas on how to enhance
essential job-search and self-presentation skills.
Through detailed case material the authors show how to use
counselling strategies with clients seeking careers guidance to
enable them to change unhelpful patterns of thought and to move
towards achievable goals.
This book:
* offers a series of tasks for structuring interviews and assesses
materials available to careers counsellors
* discusses important issues affecting their training and
development within the public sector.
This is a useful handbook for experienced advisers and trainees in
the careers service and a range of professional settings.
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