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This invaluable source book offers guidance, support and advice for those contemplating or involved in academic careers. The contributions provide rich, personal, sometimes poignant and often humorous accounts of shared and unique experiences of those in the world of academia.
Lessons Learned along the Way: Twelve Suggestions for Optimizing Career Success
Lessons Learned along the Way: Twelve Suggestions for Optimizing Career Success
In prefacing my remarks, let me first note that they are based more on experience than on science. One may thus question their generalizability. My n = 1. At the same time, the scientific databases dealing with academic career success are quite limited.
My remarks result from my participation in more than a dozen doctoral consortia devoted to the “whys” and “wherefores” of career success, extended conversations over the past two and a half decades with respected peers in my academic cohort, and hours of personal reflection tinted with a liberal dose of agony.
Warning: My remarks are admittedly very prescriptive, with many “dos” and ...
