A PhD Is Not Enough!: A Guide to Survival in Science (2nd Edition)

[Jane Rigby recommended this.](https://web.archive.org/web/20110220172742/http://users.obs.carnegiescience.edu/jrigby/gschool/index.html) A physicist authored it. Everything you ever need to know about making it as a scientist. Despite your graduate education, brainpower, and technical prowess, your career in scientific research is far from assured. Permanent positions are scarce, science survival is rarely part of formal graduate training, and a good mentor is hard to find. In A Ph.D. Is Not Enough! , physicist Peter J. Feibelman lays out a rational path to a fulfilling long-term research career. He offers sound advice on selecting a thesis or postdoctoral adviser; choosing among research jobs in academia, government laboratories, and industry; preparing for an employment interview; and defining a research program. The guidance offered in A Ph.D. Is Not Enough! will help you make your oral presentations more effective, your journal articles more compelling, and your grant proposals more successful. A classic guide for recent and soon-to-be graduates, A Ph.D. Is Not Enough! remains required reading for anyone on the threshold of a career in science. This new edition includes two new chapters and is revised and updated throughout to reflect how the revolution in electronic communication has transformed the field. "In A PhD Is Not Enough!, physicist Peter J. Feibelman lays out a rational path to a fulfilling long-term research career. He offers sound advice on selecting a thesis or postdoctoral adviser; choosing among research jobs in academia, government laboratories, and industry; preparing for an employment interview; and defining a research program. The guidance offered in A PhD Is Not Enough! will help you make your oral presentations more effective, your journal articles more compelling, and your grant proposals more successful. A classic guide for recent and soon-to-be graduates, A PhD Is Not Enough! remains required reading for anyone on the threshold of a career is science. This new edition includes to new chapters and is revised and updated throughout to reflect how the revolution in electronic communication has transformed the field."--Back cover Despite your graduate education, brainpower, and technical prowess, your career in scientific research is far from assured. Permanent positions are scarce, science survival is rarely part of formal graduate training, and a good mentor is hard to find. This exceptional volume explains what stands between you and fulfilling long-term research career. Bringing the key survival skills into focus, A Ph. D. Is Not Enough! proposes a rational approach to establishing yourself as a scientist. It offers sound advice of selecting a thesis or postdoctoral adviser, choosing among research jobs in academia Contents 8 Preface: what this book is about 12 Acknowledgments 20 1 Do You See Yourself in This Picture? 22 2 Advice from a Dinosaur? 40 3 Important Choices 48 4 Giving Talks 60 5 Writing Papers 74 6 From Here to Tenure 90 7 Job Interviews 112 8 Getting Funded 128 9 Establishing aResearch Program 142 10 A Survival Checklist 156 Afterthoughts 162 A revised edition of the classic pocket guide to making a life in academia