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Reposting classics on the basic job market documents as we gear up for the 2016 job search! ~~~~~~~~ Today’s post is a long overdue post on CVs. While the CV genre permits a wide range of variation, and there is … Continue reading
Category Archives: Promote Yourself!
One of my pet peeves in job documents is when the job candidate coyly gestures toward a research conclusion, without actually coming out and saying what the conclusion is. I have no idea why so many job seekers are so … Continue reading
I am on summer vacation through August 3, 2015. I am re-posting previous posts on perennial topics. Today, the book proposal. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You all know that the book proposal is the cornerstone to a successful tenure track career in most … Continue reading
by Adeline Koh The first thing that anyone interested in your work is going to do is to Google you (See Dr. Karen’s recent Vitae post on that subject). It’s a hard, bitter truth to accept, but our online presences … Continue reading
by Jessica Langer Let’s get right to the point: social media is one of the biggest growth industries within marketing, communications and their cognate fields. If you have a PhD in the humanities, communications is potentially a natural fit for … Continue reading
This week the Daily Nous website has a marvelous post, Answers From Academic Publishers, devoted to advice on publishing an academic monograph solicited from actual editors from Oxford, Cambridge, MIT, Routledge, and other major presses. It has an eye to … Continue reading
The writer is a regular reader of TPII. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I’m a young, female, non-tenure-track faculty member and longtime reader of this blog. A few of its posts, specifically “The Top 5 Mistakes Women Make in Academic Settings,” “Stop Negotiating Like … Continue reading
Love the blog? Now get it in handy book form–only $11.40! Available for pre-order now–comes out August 4! Buy it at all these places! It also makes a great gift for all those struggling grad students in your life! For … Continue reading
by Karen Cardozo In my last post I talked about an endemic lack of confidence as the structured byproduct of academic training – one that reveals itself most clearly at the point when PhDs contemplate changing careers. In an interdisciplinary … Continue reading
Americans don’t brag. That’s not true; Americans brag all the time, about many things–money, sex, the fish that got away. However, we don’t brag as much as you’d expect in our job applications. This may seem counterintuitive, considering the global … Continue reading