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How to Ask Your Department To Pay for Professor Is In Help

By Karen Kelsky | May 26, 2023

Your department or college may be able to pay for your participation in ANY Professor Is In work, including our formal programs, as well as editing of your professionalization/job search/tenure documents. What follows is context and scripts for … [Read more...] about How to Ask Your Department To Pay for Professor Is In Help

Filed Under: Academic Job Search, Advising Advice, How To Build Your Tenure File, Productivity, Tenure--How To Get It, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

Trans on the Job Market: a Crowdsource Post

By Karen Kelsky | May 16, 2023

A reader wrote in to raise the issue of "what to wear" for trans folks on the academic job market, and we decided to make a crowdsourcing post.  Reader noted that my old "How to Dress for an Interview as a Butch Dyke" post is sorely outdated (I … [Read more...] about Trans on the Job Market: a Crowdsource Post

Filed Under: Academic Job Search, Intersectional Analyses, Marginalized Voices, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, What Not To Wear

It Takes Money to be Moral: Thoughts on Academic Ghosting

By Karen Kelsky | February 8, 2023

This week the Chronicle published a fascinating essay about academic ghosting. I am quoted in it. The author and I spoke at great length and had a great conversation.  What I find interesting, however, is what she did NOT use from our long talk: all … [Read more...] about It Takes Money to be Moral: Thoughts on Academic Ghosting

Filed Under: Academic Job Search, Alt-University Critique, Mental Health and Academia, Shame

“So You Want to Get a Ph.D. in the Humanities” (Take II)

By Karen Kelsky | November 14, 2022

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. But somehow I missed William Pannapaker's bitingly accurate follow up the following year. I … [Read more...] about “So You Want to Get a Ph.D. in the Humanities” (Take II)

Filed Under: Academic Job Search, Mental Health and Academia, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Academic Job Search Live Webinars Start Friday!

By Karen Kelsky | October 25, 2022

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 levels (which are not good levels, but are better than the last couple of years). If you're … [Read more...] about Academic Job Search Live Webinars Start Friday!

Filed Under: Academic Job Search, Graduate Student Concerns, How to Interview, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, How To Write CVs, Landing Your Tenure Track Job

Leveling the Academic Playing Field: Our Mission

By Karen Kelsky | August 15, 2022

I periodically publish a Careers Digest on Facebook, and here is the one for August 2022. We'll start a whole new one for the '22-23 academic year from this point on. Our individual goal is to help you advance in your career; our overarching … [Read more...] about Leveling the Academic Playing Field: Our Mission

Filed Under: Academic Job Search, How to Get Grants and Fellowships, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, How To Write CVs, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes

Building an Academic Wardrobe Secondhand

By Guest Author | May 27, 2022

By Rebecca Rice Bio: Dr. Rebecca Rice is an assistant professor who blogs over at PhD in Clothes, where she discusses professional clothing, thrifting, and academic productivity. You can also find her outfits on Instagram. … [Read more...] about Building an Academic Wardrobe Secondhand

Filed Under: Academic Job Search, Adjunct Issues, Makeup, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, What Not To Wear, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

Is the Search Committee Ghosting You?

By Karen Kelsky | April 25, 2022

I get asked questions like the following about once a week. "I recently completed an interview for a TT job. Everything went well — they spoke to my references, I did a teaching demo. It’s now been over a month and I’ve heard absolutely nothing … [Read more...] about Is the Search Committee Ghosting You?

Filed Under: Academic Job Search, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Paying The Price: The Costs of Academia for First-Gen BIPOC Scholars

By Guest Author | April 8, 2022

By Cecilia Caballero. Bio: Based in LA, Cecilia Caballero is a single mother, creative nonfiction writer, poet, teaching artist, and lecturer of Ethnic Studies. As a teaching artist, Cecilia facilitates generative poetry workshops for BIPOC … [Read more...] about Paying The Price: The Costs of Academia for First-Gen BIPOC Scholars

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Graduate Student Concerns, Marginalized Voices, Mental Health and Academia, Negotiating Offers, Ph.D. Poverty, Women of Color in Academia

Near Death of an Accidental Academic – Guest Post

By Guest Author | March 25, 2022

By Sandra Mizumoto Posey I’m an accidental academic, but once I fell into academia I kept falling. It was pure luck that the only job I was invited to interview for when I was searching for a job with benefits — in or out of academia —  was the one … [Read more...] about Near Death of an Accidental Academic – Guest Post

Filed Under: Academic Job Search, Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, Mental Health and Academia, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

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