How do you beef up a resume fast?
QoH and I had a pretty good conversation after this morning’s meeting about my future or more specifically the lack thereof. We were talking about how meek my resume looks right now. I have 5 journal papers, 5 conference papers, and 1 book chapter. Decent by a third year grad student standards, but no where even close to what it would need to be to land me an academic position in an year and half. QoH thinks I need atleast about 30 publications before any good university will even consider me.
I am pretty scared now. I have about a year left before I have to start applying for jobs. 12 months and about 20 papers. Thats close to 2 a month!!!!!!!!! I dont think I can even write fiction that fast. QoH has promised to get me another book chapter invite and recommend me for a few fellowships and awards. They will get me a bit ahead of the curve, but not all the way. How am I going to compete with all these geniuses out of MIT, Berkley, and Stanford? Just thinking about this makes me wanna scream and pull my hair out.
I am just going to go for a walk and not think about this for now.
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By RageyOne, June 3, 2005 @ 10:07 pm
Really? That many pubs are needed in your field to be considered for an academic position? Oh my! That is a lot. I can’t imagine having to have that many pubs as a student.
Don’t the would-be hires realize taht you are in school trying to get the degree? Yeah, I know that the research & writing is a part of it. However, you, as a student are being tranied to be a better researcher (or so I thought).
By Pseudosanity, June 6, 2005 @ 9:47 pm
Well you dont need that many papers to get “a” faculty position. You can get one with just a dozen or so. My problem is that I want one in the top 5 universities. In engineering the starting point of one’s academic career is a HUGE deal. If I take a position at a lower ranked university, the more difficult will it be to find funds. Low funds = fewer students. Fewer students = low level research. low research = even lesser funds. Its a vicious cycle.