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The Six Ways You’re Acting Like a Grad Student (And how that’s killing you on the job market)
For the next few months I will be posting the “best of the best” Professor is in blog posts on the job market, for the benefit of all those girding their loins for the 2013-2014 market. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Today we have … Continue reading
Posted in How To Do Conferences, How to Interview, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Tenure--How To Get It, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia
Tagged academic job market help, assertiveness training exercise, body language of women, getting a tenure track job, How to deal with professors, How to shake hands, women professional success, women succeeding in graduate school
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How To Ask A (Famous) Professor to be Your Dissertation Chair
Today is a Special Request post for Meagan, who wishes to know how to approach a famous and influential scholar in her department to be the chair of her dissertation committee. Ideally, you will have arranged to work with your … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Strategizing Your Success in Academia
Tagged dealing with your advisor, graduate school in the humanities, how to assemble a committee, How to deal with professors, replacing dissertation committee members, the best advisors, women succeeding in graduate school
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Getting Schooled for My Sexism
(Friday Post Category: Yes, You Can: Women in the Academy) When I was a brand new assistant professor, the chair of my department put me in charge of the department’s speaker series. This was actually a good thing. Being in … Continue reading
Posted in Race/Gender/Sexuality, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia
Tagged female faculty advice, female professor advice, internalized sexism, sexism in the university, women and assertiveness, women and tenure, women professional success, women succeeding in graduate school, women workplace help, women's careers
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What is Assertiveness, for Women?
(Friday Post Category: Yes, You Can: Women in Academia) I get so frustrated when I see the female students and colleagues I work with sabotage themselves and undermine their own authority and effectiveness because of an inability to be assertive. … Continue reading
Posted in Yes, You Can: Women in Academia
Tagged assertiveness training exercise, body language of women, coaching women success, definition of assertiveness, female self assertiveness, graduate school aid, playing with hair body language, submissive female body language, teaching women to be self confident, top 5 mistakes for women, what is body language, women and tenure, women professional success, women succeeding in graduate school, women workplace body language, women workplace help
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Why You Must Never Ask Your TA for a Letter of Recommendation, Part One
In my work with undergraduate students helping them apply to graduate school, one of the biggest problems I encounter is the student’s lack of appropriate people to write their letters of recommendation. All too often the student will come in … Continue reading
The Top 5 Mistakes Women Make in Academic Settings
I frequently offer the workshop: “Yes You Can! Women and Graduate School.” It’s a workshop I’ve led quite a few times in different forms, formally and informally, over the course of my 15 years in academia. I created it, and … Continue reading
Posted in Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Tenure--How To Get It, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia
Tagged dominant and submissive female body language, female self assertiveness, teaching women to be self confident, top 5 mistakes for women, women succeeding in graduate school
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