This workshop is intended for graduate students in philosophy who aspire to a professional career in academic philosophy. In this workshop, participants will reflect on how to plan and to write a PhD thesis, how to submit an abstract for a conference, how to give a talk, how to write a grant proposal, how to write a philosophy paper, how to have and maintain a professional internet presence, how to put together a CV, a research statement, and a job dossier, how to get an academic job, as well as on teaching and professional service.

Please let me know if you want to participate, so I can include you in the email list for the workshop.

Important: All participants must register on the CUSO website at http://www.cuso.ch/activity/?p=863&uid=3207. The CUSO will cover the lunches for PhD students at the four CUSO universities (Geneva, Lausanne, Neuchâtel, and Fribourg), as well as reimburse them for their train tickets.

Course materials such as lecture notes, handouts, etc will be made available as they will be used in the workshop.

• Presentation slides: How to get a postdoc

Links to online material:

• From the American Philosophical Association's website: Advice for applying for academic jobs in philosophy (Warning: some of the advice is specific to North America, and some of it is idiosyncratic--as the author admits)

Here is a list of useful books (though some of them are dated):

• Robert L. Peters, Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student's Guide to Earning a Master's or Ph.D., Noonday, revised edition 1997.
• John A. Goldsmith, John Komlos, Penny Schine Gold, The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career: A Portable Mentor for Scholars from Graduate School through Tenure, University of Chicago Press, 2001.

This is the schedule of topics for the seminar. It is likely subject to adjustment.

Date	Time	Topic	Room
Tuesday, 5 April 2016	12:30-14:15	Lunch, Welcome	(Restaurant Italia)
	14:15-15:45	Workshop 1 - Introduction, presentation of course goals - How to be professional as a graduate student - Organizing one's PhD - Research tools - Networking	A306, Aile Jura, Uni Bastions; location on map
	16:15-17:45	Workshop 2 - Preparing for the job hunt - How to get a job in different countries - Switzerland, France (Jiri Benovsky), Germany, UK, US	A306, Aile Jura, Uni Bastions; location on map
Thursday, 28 April 2016	11:00-12:30	Workshop 3 - The job dossier and its parts - CV - Research statement - Teaching materials - Letters of reference - Writing sample - Internet presence	A303, Aile Jura, Uni Bastions; location on map
	12:30-14:15	Lunch	(Restaurant universitaire Uni Dufour)
	14:15-15:45	Workshop 4 - Grant proposals in general - Specific SNF grant schemes of interest to participants	A303, Aile Jura, Uni Bastions; location on map
Thursday, 19 May 2016	11:00-12:30	Workshop 5 - Atelier, Part 1	A303, Aile Jura, Uni Bastions; location on map
	12:30-14:15	Lunch	(Le Café Restaurant du Parc des Bastions)
	14:15-15:45	Workshop 6 - Atelier, Part 2	A303, Aile Jura, Uni Bastions; location on map