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Self-Promotion in Graduate School Part 1: I Love it When a Plan Comes Together

I stated earlier that to promote yourself in the academic arena you needed to have a plan. Before you think I am going to launch into 300 page book on how to plan things in detail this is a much simpler plan.

Get a goal
List the […]

15 January 2007 | Mark Bell, academia, Planning | 1 Comment

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 […]

12 January 2007 | Mark Bell, academia, self-promotion | 2 Comments