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 Interview
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
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
Advisors, #dobetter
A reader wrote to share a case of useless department head job market advice. I pass it on with his/her full permission,* in the hopes that those of you who are advisers will reflect on your own practices, and do better. The department head response … [Read more...] about Advisors, #dobetter
Data Point, Data Point, Data Point…
Sometimes I hear reactions to The Professor Is In, that my level of attention to details and minutiae (everything from what kind of bag you carry to where your voice rises in your delivery of a sentence) is excessive--even anal or obsessive. … [Read more...] about Data Point, Data Point, Data Point…
Update on My Book: Blurbs, Reviews, and a Promotion
The book inches closer to actually existing in the material world (August 4)! It has gotten some lovely blurbs by amazing people, like this one by the inimitable Rebecca Schuman: “If you would like your academic career to begin in delusion and end … [Read more...] about Update on My Book: Blurbs, Reviews, and a Promotion
What Not To Do at Your Campus Visit
Today I share some remarks by a tenured client, who just completed a search at her department, and wrote to tell me about it: "We just finished doing a job search here and an offer has been made. I wanted to share with you something the last … [Read more...] about What Not To Do at Your Campus Visit
Buy My Book!
Love the blog? Now get it in handy book form--only $11.40! Available for pre-order now--comes out August 4! Buy it at all these places! It also makes a great gift for all those struggling grad students in your life! For bulk orders for use … [Read more...] about Buy My Book!
A View From the Other Side of the Table: Playing the Endgame (A Guest Post)
This is a guest post by a tenured reader at a mid-tier public university. If you been invited for a campus visit, congratulations. This means that you are part of an elite group of 5 or so who have been chosen over the hundred or so other … [Read more...] about A View From the Other Side of the Table: Playing the Endgame (A Guest Post)