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1 The Academic Business Enterprise 9
Academic Employment Relationships 10
Human Resource Development 11
Labor Cost and Intellectual Assets 13
What You Can Do 15
2 Build Your Mental Toughness 17
My Own Moment of Truth 18
Shift the Power Balance 22
Choose Your Peers Wisely 24
What You Can Do 30
3 Grow Your Social Network 33
Job Seeker versus Attractive Employee 36
Grow Your Luck 44
The Net Worth of Your Social Network 47
What You Can Do 49
4 Put Yourself in Employers’ Shoes 51
The Role Reversal 53
What “Overqualified” Really Means 56
Uncovering the True Objection 58
What You Can Do 61
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5 No Experience? Get Some! 63
Every Employee Started with No “Experience” 64
Information versus Insight 66
How Employers Evaluate “Experience” 68
What You Can Do 78
6 PhD Career Professional, Know Thyself 81
Separate Roles from Identity 83
Answer Your Big Questions 84
Get Clear about Self-Confidence 85
Manage Your Blind Spots 87
7 What I Wished I’d Learned in Graduate School 89
Empathy 89
Approval 91
Assets 93
Burn-Out 96
PhD [alternative] Career Clinic Checklists 99
Dear PhD Professional 106
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