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Questions I Don't Know the Answer To | 3 comments (3 topical, 0 hidden)

[new] Looking for a job and finishing your dissertation (4.00 / 1) (#1)
by Anonymous Hero on Sat Nov 23, 2002 at 11:00:09 AM PDT

Because the application process requires one to start early in the year, many people find that they are applying for jobs before they finish their dissertation. I have seen some advisors who have their students work on a few smaller papers a year or more before their student graduates. Then, they year they graduate the student looks for jobs in the fall and in the spring they combined their papers together into a dissertation.

Another approach I've seen is to simply finish your dissertation before applying for jobs. A friend of mine did this, but it winds up costing you an extra year or so. Personally, I didn't have any articles nor the bullk of my dissertation written when as I applied for jobs and I found that this was a bit ackward.

What is the most common path here? What do people feel is the best? (Looking back, I wish I would have gone the "write a few papers" route.)

depends on the competition? by SeminoleNo1, 11/25/2002 18:16:17 PDT (4.00 / 1)
writing a few papers by Emil Volcheck, 11/25/2002 21:13:28 PDT (none / 0)

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