Collected Wisdom: Advice to New Entrants to the Profession.

When we leave the Ph.D. to embark on an academic career, we soon discover that the strategies for success rely on a range of teaching, research, managerial, and networking skills that we likely did not develop during our doctoral years. This paper compiles advice to new entrants to the profession from established political scientists on some of the general strategies and skills that they identified as being crucial to the development of their academic careers.European Political Science (2009) 8, 162–167. doi:10.1057/eps.2009.4 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]