2022 Updates
Academic Hiring Has Imploded Due to COVID-19
We support your academic job search and post-ac transition. We reduce rates to be accessible to as many as possible. Don’t let finances stop you from reaching out.
Anyone urgently departing academia, please visit The Professor Is /Out/ private Facebook group for support in your journey.
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Since 2017, our publicly posted company policy has been to support Black and Indigenous women in the academy. Contact us for reduced rates.
We Support the Trans Community Unconditionally
If you need help moving away from a job/location that is dangerous to you, contact us for reduced rates.
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On the ‘Pearls of Wisdom’ Blog (see the categories to the right), I offer the hands-on information you need now to get through the hoops of academia.
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Recent Posts
“So You Want to Get a Ph.D. in the Humanities” (Take II)
Early on in the blog, wayyyyyyyyy back almost ten years ago, I posted this awesome youtube video from Leslie Allison: Here is the original post.
Academic Job Search Live Webinars Start Friday!
Our Academic Job Market Webinar Series Starts this week! While the data is mixed, some fields are seeing a rebound in academic hiring to pre-pandemic
Just One Thing: Claim Your Creativity
A decade or so ago, when I was working with an advisory board for a journalism school on introducing a new program, I read an
