"Wide-ranging in its scope - the authors try to provide information and helpful hints on everything that could confront you as you go from being a student to being a professional, from ethics, to what level of degree you want/need, to how to write cover letters. But it’s rooted in three practical tools - keeping a journal, a portfolio, and making a 5-year plan. It comes across as a cross between self-help workshops and a very useful pep talk about how to tailor your skills, knowledge and abilities to the fields of anthropology. It helps translate job announcements and your own background into skills and abilities tailored with anthropology in mind. The writing style is very easy to read, informal, and engaging—as though a close mentor or “uncle” were giving you advice. It will be very useful for the growing number of graduate programs that are trying to link their students and graduates with employment. A step-by-step guide without being overly prescriptive."
- Shirley J. Fiske, University of Maryland and anthropological consultant
"Carol Ellick and Joe Watkins should be congratulated on this valuable contribution to future generations of Anthropologists. This work is a thoughtful, realistic, and informed guide to professional and career development issues, and offers students a practical, hands-on approach to their own professional growth that has been tested in the classroom. This book would make an excellent textbook or resource for student workshops, and the personal, direct writing style makes it a tremendous resource for individual students (both undergraduate and graduate) to engage with on their own."
-Jane Eva Baxter, DePaul University
"The Anthropology Graduate’s Guide: From Student to a Career (Left Coast Press, 2011) is the one book that should be handed out with a diploma when a student graduates with a BA in Anthropology or by a student’s advisor before the first day of classes in a graduate program. The Anthropology Graduate’s Guide is written in a clear, non-jargon laden, and down-to-earth style. If you teach in an Anthropology program you owe it to yourself to check out The Anthropology Graduate’s Guide as a resource for your students. If you are a student, this book includes all those things you need to know and either forgot to ask or were too embarrassed to ask because you thought you should already know. I am confident this book will enjoy a long shelf-life and go into revisions down the road." Read the complete review at: http://rcnnolly.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/review-of-the-anthropology-graduates-guide/ —Robert Connolly, University of Memphis
"This manual for anthropology students and graduates ties together assessment of one's qualifications, creation of documents needed for career planning, reprocessing of these documents for specific job applications, and organization of the output into a portfolio. It is a welcome guide for students, job seekers, and academic advisors in anthropology. Highly Recommended." -CHOICE
