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Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of effort and enormous amounts of money, earn their PhDs. And every year only a small percentage of them will land careers that justify and prize their investments. For every comfortably tenured professor or well-paid ex - academic, there are many underpaid and overworked adjuncts and many more who simply give up in frustration. Karen Kelsky has made it her mission to help job seekers join the select few who get the most out of the PhDs. Being a former tenured professor and department head who oversaw numerous academic job queries, she is aware of from experience exactly what gets an academic applicant a job. Now, for the first time ever, Karen has poured all her best advice into a single convenient guide that addresses the main issues facing any PhD, including writing a foolproof grant program, cultivating recommendations and crafting the perfect CV, acing the work chat and campus interview, and making the step to nonacademic work when it's high time.