Building Your Academic Career encourages you to take a proactive approach to getting what you want out of academic work whilst being a good colleague. We discuss the advantages and disadvantages of such a career, the routes in and the various elements that shape current academic working lives. In the second half of the book we deal in considerable detail with how to write a really good CV (résumé) and how best to approach securing an academic job or promotion.

Rebecca Boden - University of the West of England.

Who Should Use This Book and How
Why Have an Academic Career?
Shaping up
Academic Anatomies
Presenting Yourself
Vital Statistics
Getting a Job, Getting Promoted
Balancing Acts
Between Work and Life