For what it is worth, my program had a service position for one of our professors to be the academic coach. I think we all read The Professor Is In anyway (because, in panic, do everything). But I think having the faculty coach was far more valuable.
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Every PhD granting department should have a faculty member filling that role - we had seminars on producing the documents, but also one-on-one editing, and so on. Obviously the advisor has a role there, but having someone focused on keeping up to date w/ the process is crucial.
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At the same time, despite what I'd consider a fairly high caliber of in-department coaching (and a very generous-with-time advisor)...I don't have that magic TT job. Much of my cohort doesn't either. Who does and doesn't is basically random.
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And so there needs to be an honesty here that some degree of preparation for applications (which is why departments need to do their own coaching) is necessary to even be at the table to roll the dice. But you are still rolling the dice and the odds are bad.
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here's something i would have desperately wanted: non-academic coaching. as in, not just five minutes of "did you know that phds are useful" but an actual person who will help with networking and teach you how to transition out of academia and into the corporate world
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Yeah, let me tell you "start a blog and become very, very low grade internet-famous" was not part of the career advice I got from anybody. At all. But it is now a fairly major part of my 'COVID-19 Job Market Freeze' subsistence strategy!
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