Self-Promotion in Graduate School or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Started a Blog
The idea of self-promotion in academia may sound foreign, but it this day and age it is essential. This is the hard reality. In grad school, your job is to find a job where you can do what you like to do. This can be in or out of academia but either end-point requires some method self-promotion. Far too often, grad students get involved with only the goings on in their current program with no plan or idea about what comes next. It is important to do excellent work for your professors but they are not the entire field. Also most schools don’t hire their own grads. My view is that grad school is one long interview process. For success, you must become a known entity. I know one incredible smart, charismatic grad student who is doing amazing work but does not promote himself enough. He needs to get over it. Maybe I will use him as a case study.
For me the essentials student self-promotion tools are the following:
- Have a plan
- Have a take
- Have a blog
- Join Mail Lists
- Contact other people
Over the next few posts, I will go into detail with each of these things. Being an academic has to be one of the most rewarding and engaging jobs and self-promotion just makes it more so.
Also, please if you have self-promotion ideas in academia pleas pass them onto me so I can share them with DE readers.
More to come!
12 January 2007 | Mark Bell, academia, self-promotion | Comments
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2 Responses to “Self-Promotion in Graduate School or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Started a Blog”
1 jeremy hunsinger 13 January 2007 @ 6:28 am
also read phil agre’s networking on the network.
2 Daniel Livingstone 13 January 2007 @ 8:38 am
Have to agree with your sentiments. As a student, I was nervous - far too nervous - to do much networking. And although I did network, I rarely volunteered for things or promoted myself. I’d say it really held me back!!!
Still, I think I’m finally getting the hang of it!
:D