How to Succeed in Academics

This is a how-to book for the academic life based on more than 50 years combined personal experience and 8 years of formal group mentoring as part of a workshop on these topics.

The unwritten rules of university life are shared through fictional vignettes that are all too real.

Secrets to successfully achieving short-term and long-term goals are provided in the progress timelines and suggested milestones.

Beginning with selecting a training program and choosing a job, this book takes the student, fellow, or faculty member through the maze of academic secrecy to a new level of understanding and empowerment.This book: provides the unwritten rules for success and "tells it like it is"; organises chapters to help you develop and market your career and determine how to organize your curriculum vitae; includes vignettes to illustrate possible pitfalls in academics and strategies on how to avoid them, or how to select the most effective course of action; guides you step-by-step through the process of writing grant proposals, abstracts, slide preparation, poster preparation, and presentations; provides timelines to estimate your overall career progress or for specific tasks such as grant writing; describes negotiation techniques to assist you in interactions with your mentor, your department chair, grant officers, and journal editors; and, summarizes content of each chapter in paragraph subheadings to facilitate reading.