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Category Archives: Landing Your Tenure Track Job
If You’re Considering Grad School/Job in Scandinavia, Part I (A Guest Post)
Academic life in Scandinavia This is the story of a British academic couple – now a family – and our experiences of working in Scandinavia. It has a happy ending. It is based entirely on personal experience and does not … Continue reading
Gerund Addiction and Word Repetition–Two More Scourges
Faithful readers know that I have several posts on different kinds of writing tics that plague many academic writers. These include list addiction, dyad addiction, and cheap adjectives. There are two more writing tics that I’ve come to identify: gerund … Continue reading
If You’re Considering Graduate School in Germany
A reader doing her graduate work in Germany sent me this information and asked me to share it on the website, for the benefit of others considering doing the same. Apparently there are a lot of challenges. Proceed at your … Continue reading
Stop Negotiating Like a Girl
This post comes from an email exchange this week, with a client who is working with me on Negotiating Assistance. Discipline, institution, etc. all excised. She has more than one offer, and drafted an email to her job #1–a R1– … Continue reading
The Time Line (A Guest Post on Work-Life Balance)
A couple weeks ago I requested a guest post that might speak to the misery and angst of the partner/spouse of someone on the academic job market. I had received several requests for such a post, generally from non-academic partners/spouses … Continue reading
What You’ll Learn in the Campus Visit Webinar
I’m sending out this extra blog post this week to let you know about the new Campus Visit Webinar tomorrow, Wednesday 1/16 at 2 PM Pacific/5 PM EST/22:00 GMT. I’m really excited about this new webinar, which I’ve been contemplating … Continue reading
How Do I Address Search Committee Members?
I am hereby answering the question of the hour/day/year: how should you address search committee members in an interview? You know of course that I am continually railing against job candidates acting like grad students. And addressing search committee members … Continue reading
How Do I Ask If There Is An Inside Candidate?
You do not ask if there is an inside candidate. I don’t care if you strongly suspect that there is, and have good reason to believe the whole damned search is a completely pointless charade because they obviously already have … Continue reading
Do Your Homework! A Live Report From a Job Search
Sometimes readers send me “reports from the front” of the job searches in their departments. Last week I got this report from a former client who wanted to tell me about how a young ABD candidate prevailed over a much … Continue reading
The Value of the Interview Bootcamp, by Kellee
Today’s post is by Kellee Weinhold, who shares her insights after taking over the Interview Bootcamps in November. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After a few weeks of interview bootcamps, I must admit to a bit of academic PTSD. More times than I care … Continue reading
