This week's task is short and sweet: Submit something. Ideally, this means an academic article, essay, review, commentary, chapter proposal, or other appropriate piece of writing, to an actual academic publication venue. While regular readers … [Read more...] about 52 Career Actions: Week 19: Submit a Piece for Publication
52 Career Actions: Week 18: Prepare a Writing Sample Portfolio
Hi everyone, and welcome back to the 52 Career Actions series. I hope you had a good summer! I took time off to write the bulk of my new book, The Professor Is Out: The Essential Guide to Leaving Academia. I did get a few chapters done! But I did not … [Read more...] about 52 Career Actions: Week 18: Prepare a Writing Sample Portfolio
52 Career Actions: Week 17: Overhaul Your LinkedIn Profile!
If you are still treating LinkedIn as an optional social media platform for business people, please stop. For academics pursuing careers beyond the tenure track, LinkedIn is not optional. It is your public-facing professional profile, your … [Read more...] about 52 Career Actions: Week 17: Overhaul Your LinkedIn Profile!
52 Career Actions: Week 15: Write a tailored cover letter for a dream position.
I'm doing a new thing from this week! I'm adding in a regular post about ACADEMIC career actions. I'm doing this because it's June and folks are looking ahead to their Fall academic job search, which starts in August. Of course academia is in an … [Read more...] about 52 Career Actions: Week 15: Write a tailored cover letter for a dream position.
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Peer Review – A Guest Post
By Hema Thakur With over a decade of experience training academic researchers and editors, Hema has supported authors in publishing across major scholarly platforms. Her work has appeared in outlets such as The Scholarly Kitchen, Springer Nature … [Read more...] about The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Peer Review – A Guest Post
52 Career Actions: Week 14: Update your academic CV and resume, separately.
There is a particular kind of panic that grips academics when they realize they need a “resume.” Suddenly, your CV, that 32-page monument to your intellectual suffering - the scrupulously delineated publications, conference papers, invited talks, … [Read more...] about 52 Career Actions: Week 14: Update your academic CV and resume, separately.
52 Career Actions: Week 13: Take a Short Course Relevant to your Target Job
At this stage of the job search, many of you might still be suffering from the lingering academic misconception that employers are searching for perfection. As we've tried to make clear, though, actually they are searching for evidence: that you … [Read more...] about 52 Career Actions: Week 13: Take a Short Course Relevant to your Target Job
52 WIP Hacks: #12 : The Whole Thing Is a Fantasy
Hear me now and believe me later. The moment you sit down to work on "the whole thing," you've already lost. I have been an editor and/or writing teacher for going on 35 years now, so I can say with absolute confidence that countless writers stop … [Read more...] about 52 WIP Hacks: #12 : The Whole Thing Is a Fantasy
52 Career Actions: Week 12: Join One Professional Group Online
Here is a truth that many of you will resist: you cannot build a career in isolation. You may feel productive tucked away with your research, your writing, your carefully curated CV, but if no one knows who you are, what you do, or why it matters, … [Read more...] about 52 Career Actions: Week 12: Join One Professional Group Online
Rupture isn’t Burnout: Career Grief in a Collapsing Academy – Guest Post
By Tamara Yakaboski, PhD Bio: Tamara Yakaboski, PhD, spent almost 20 years as a professor and administrator before confronting the reality that academia, for many, is no longer sustainable. Whether due to burnout, institutional dysfunction, or … [Read more...] about Rupture isn’t Burnout: Career Grief in a Collapsing Academy – Guest Post