Getting Into Grad School and Landing a Job as a Professor (Ep. 71)

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Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

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4.8 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2015

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

How do professors get their jobs? In this episode, Karen Kelsky, author of "The Professor Is In", shares both how to get into a great grad program and how to become a tenured professor. Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: The Professor is In: The Essential Guide to Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job The Professor Is In - Karen's blog Want more cool stuff? You can find all sorts of great tools at my Resources page. You can also get a free copy of my book, 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by staying up to date with the College Info Geek newsletter. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! It's easy, you'll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure :) You can also leave a review! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:34.0	Hello everybody and welcome to the college info geek
0:41.0	podcast. My name is Thomas Frank and this is a show that helps you
0:44.1	become a more effective student including tips on how to study more effectively,
0:48.1	tips on getting internships and jobs and ways to master your money and generally
0:52.2	make college an amazing experience.
0:54.4	And on this episode, we're actually going to talk about what it takes to get into graduate school,
0:59.2	what it takes to get funded to go to graduate school, all the things you can do to impress the people who
1:03.8	will be making those decisions on who gets in, who gets that funding, and also beyond
1:08.1	that we're going to look at what it actually takes to get a position as a professor,
1:12.1	specifically a tenured professor, one of those holy grail jobs that anybody going into academia or who has dreams of going into academia, dreams of getting.
1:21.0	And actually we're going to do on this episode is something I don't do very often,
1:25.2	ironically for a college-focused podcast. We're actually having a professor on the show.
1:30.0	I generally don't have professors in the show. I can't really tell you why.'s not really a reason but I'm really
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