| Description |
1 online resource (206 p.) |
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Texts in Quantitative Political Analysis |
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Texts in quantitative political analysis.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Surveying the Landscape of Industry Jobs -- Career Paths -- Advice for Nonacademic Job Success -- Part I: Career Paths -- Data Science Needs You, Social Scientist -- Research Data Science as a Profession -- Understand the Subdisciplines of Data Science and Find Your Best Fit -- Tell Your Story Clearly and as Often as You Can -- Show Them Who You Are as a Technician and as Their Potential Teammate -- Understand Who Is Hiring and Why -- Conclusion -- How to Thrive in the Data Industry Without a Traditional STEM Background -- What Is Ethnography? |
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Shipping Value -- Trust in the Model -- Trust in the Data -- Trust in the Problem -- Play to Your Strengths -- Alt-Academic Career Paths -- What My Career Looks Like Now -- How to Become a Faculty Developer -- From the Academy to Tech Startups: Considerations and Opportunities -- My Own Academic-to-Startup Transition -- Dimensions of Startup Jobs to Pay Attention to When Applying -- Expert Versus Beginner -- Short Term Versus Long Term -- Implementation Versus Development -- Services Versus Products -- Hierarchical Versus Holacratic -- Practical Questions |
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Lastly, What About Starting Your Own Company? -- Opportunities and Pathways in Survey Research -- My Pathway -- What Does Survey Research Consist of? -- What Are the Opportunities for Survey Researchers, and Who Hires Them? -- Government and Contractors -- Private Sector -- Nonprofit Sector: Including Policy and Advocacy -- Politics and Elections -- Miscellaneous Other Possibilities -- What It Looks Like to Work in Survey Research -- How to Learn Survey Research? -- Marketing Research with a PhD in Sociology -- Academic Frustrations -- Industry Hopes -- Starting |
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Relevant Skills and Things I Needed to Relearn -- Presentation Matters -- Writing and Communicating -- Roles -- External -- Internal -- Lifestyle -- The Road Back to Academia -- Teaching and Administration -- In Closing -- Say Yes to Cultivating Your Future -- All Skills Are Transferable -- Doing Good for Others -- Pivot to Market Research -- Being Your Own Boss -- Embrace an Unfamiliar Culture -- An Introvert in an Extravert's World -- Own Your Career -- The PhD Stigma -- Working in Government -- So You Want to Make a Difference -- Getting In -- Your Model's Worth -- Handling Risk -- The Way Up |
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Working in Government Does Not Make You an Angel -- More Resources -- Working in Quasi-Governmental Research -- Introduction -- What Is an FFRDC -- Pasteur's Quadrant -- The Observer Monkey -- Daily Life in an FFRDC -- Measures of Performance -- Proudly "Disinterested": Public Administration and Social Science PhD Programs -- A Road That Weaves In and Out of Academia? -- Tertiary Education in Australia and the PhD Pathway -- Leveraging Skills and Developing Skills -- The Career Toll Bridge -- What Comes Next? Post-PhD Choices for Daniel and Mark -- References |
| Summary |
This book is a guide to non-academic careers for quantitative social scientists. Written by social science PhDs working in large corporations, non-profits, tech startups, and alt-academic positions in higher education, this book consists of more than a dozen chapters on various topics on finding rewarding careers outside the academy. Chapters are organized in three parts. Part I provides an introduction to the types of jobs available to social science PhDs, where those jobs can be found, and what the work looks like in those positions. Part II creates a guide for social science PhDs on how to set themselves up for such careers, including navigating the academic world of graduate school while contemplating non-academic options, and selling their academic experience in a non-academic setting. Part III offers perspectives on timelines for making non-academic career decisions, lifestyle differences between academia and non-academic jobs, and additional resources for those considering a non-academic route. Providing valuable insight on non-academic careers from those who have successfully made the transition, this volume will be an asset to graduate students, advisors, and recent PhDs, in quantitative social science. |
| Notes |
Applying the Transferable Skill Set of a PhD to Emerging Data Fields |
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Includes index |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 16, 2023) |
| Subject |
Social scientists -- Vocational guidance
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Social scientists -- Vocational guidance.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jackson, Natalie
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| ISBN |
3031350367 |
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9783031350368 |
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