I want to offer a personal note. I've had an extraordinarily difficult year. My teenage son has struggled with mental health challenges that have required constant attention as well as constant travel, along with a profound reevaluation of my family … [Read more...] about A Personal Note From Karen
How to Interview
The UK Job Market, Part IV: Interviews, British-Style
By Alice Kelly, Ph.D. Alice Kelly is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Her academic training has been in the UK and the US. She completed her PhD in English at Cambridge in 2014, with a year as a Fox Fellow at Yale, and … [Read more...] about The UK Job Market, Part IV: Interviews, British-Style
Effective Slides for Your Job Talk and Beyond: 9 Myths To Stop Believing – Guest Post
By Echo Rivera, PhD Independent Research and Evaluation Consultant Owner, Creative Research Communications, LLC Hi! I’m Dr. Echo Rivera. My passion is helping researchers, academics, scientists, and evaluators become effective visual … [Read more...] about Effective Slides for Your Job Talk and Beyond: 9 Myths To Stop Believing – Guest Post
Looking Presentable on Webcam – A Guest Post
by Jennifer Bernstein, PhD Instructor, Spatial Sciences Institute, University of Southern California Email: jennifer.bernstein@gmail.com; bernstjm@usc.edu [Karen: Jennifer offered this post, and I gladly accepted. I've purchased the items she … [Read more...] about Looking Presentable on Webcam – A Guest Post
Rethinking Rejection – by Karen Cardozo
By Karen Cardozo A recent Chronicle article on how to survive rejection linked to a blog post urging writers to aim for 100 rejections a year. How (existentially) low can you go?! This method of throwing literary spaghetti at the wall … [Read more...] about Rethinking Rejection – by Karen Cardozo
Say Thank You!
Co-authored post by Karen Kelsky and Verena Hutter. We are the point in the cycle where clients are working on Job Talks and Campus Visit Interventions. (And getting offers---be sure and check out the weekly Job Market Digest each Friday on … [Read more...] about Say Thank You!
How to Present Effectively
A few weeks ago I had the marvelous good fortune to participate in the Legacy Heritage workshop, a professional development workshop for a select group of Ph.D. students sponsored by the Association for Jewish Studies, and held immediately following … [Read more...] about How to Present Effectively
How Can I Help? Interviews, Campus Visits, and Negotiating edition
I have a lot on my mind right now regarding the impact of Trump on academic life. Kellee and I ran a free Academic Life Under Trump webinar a couple days ago, and it was good to open space for a conversation about the anxieties and uncertainties and … [Read more...] about How Can I Help? Interviews, Campus Visits, and Negotiating edition
Don’t Be That Asshole (by Kellee Weinhold)
We continue in our series of interview-focused posts by Kellee Weinhold, the master of Interview Interventions, Job Talk Interventions, and Campus Visit Interventions here at TPII. Several years ago, at a Yom Kippur break fast with a group … [Read more...] about Don’t Be That Asshole (by Kellee Weinhold)
How to Write Your Own Rec. Letter, plus All of my Vitae columns
In my two+ gratifying and enjoyable years of writing for Chronicle Vitae, I've only had one column rejected by them, and it is this one, which I submitted late in December as an end-of-year compendium of all my columns, organized thematically. I … [Read more...] about How to Write Your Own Rec. Letter, plus All of my Vitae columns