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A Personal Note From Karen

By Karen Kelsky | November 5, 2018

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

Filed Under: How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Mental Health and Academia, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, The Campus Visit

The UK Job Market, Part IV: Interviews, British-Style

By Karen Kelsky | January 5, 2018

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

Filed Under: How to Interview, International Perspectives, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Effective Slides for Your Job Talk and Beyond: 9 Myths To Stop Believing – Guest Post

By Karen Kelsky | November 10, 2017

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

Filed Under: How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, The Campus Visit

Looking Presentable on Webcam – A Guest Post

By Karen Kelsky | October 27, 2017

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

Filed Under: How to Interview, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Rethinking Rejection – by Karen Cardozo

By Karen Kelsky | April 17, 2017

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

Filed Under: Advising Advice, How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Post-Ac Job Search, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Shame, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Work/Life Balance in Academia

Say Thank You!

By Karen Kelsky | March 26, 2017

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!

Filed Under: How to Interview, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, The Campus Visit

How to Present Effectively

By Karen Kelsky | January 7, 2017

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

Filed Under: How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, The Campus Visit

How Can I Help? Interviews, Campus Visits, and Negotiating edition

By Karen Kelsky | December 19, 2016

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

Filed Under: How to Interview, Negotiating Offers, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, The Campus Visit

Don’t Be That Asshole (by Kellee Weinhold)

By Kel Weinhold | March 27, 2016

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)

Filed Under: How to Interview, Major Job Market Mistakes, The Campus Visit

How to Write Your Own Rec. Letter, plus All of my Vitae columns

By Karen Kelsky | January 22, 2016

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

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Graduate Student Concerns, How To Choose and Manage Recommenders, How to Interview, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Negotiating Offers, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, The Campus Visit, What Not To Wear, Your Second and Third Jobs

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