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How to Interview

Interviewing at an HBCU: The Question is a Different Question (A Guest Post)

By Karen Kelsky | February 13, 2015

This post is in two parts. Part One is by Melissa Geil Melissa Geil is a freelance writer and English teacher. She worked for five years at a public HBCU in Tennessee, where she served on multiple job search committees. She kindly responded to my … [Read more...] about Interviewing at an HBCU: The Question is a Different Question (A Guest Post)

Filed Under: How to Interview, Intersectional Analyses, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

The Question Is Not The Question, Postac Version – Langer

By Karen Kelsky | February 9, 2015

by Jessica Langer Following her (really, really important) post on the academic interview, "The Question Is Not The Question", Karen asked me to write a version for alt/post-ac life. Interviewing, as Karen has said many times and as I concur, is … [Read more...] about The Question Is Not The Question, Postac Version – Langer

Filed Under: How to Interview, Post-Ac Job Search, Quitting--An Excellent Option

Don’t State the Obvious

By Karen Kelsky | January 16, 2015

There is a kind of line in job documents that is technically blameless, but is so generic, so very much "stating the obvious" that it also completely pointless.  This kind of line fills space while doing nothing to distinguish you in any way. The … [Read more...] about Don’t State the Obvious

Filed Under: How To Build Your Tenure File, How to Interview, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, Major Job Market Mistakes, Negotiating Offers, Postdoc Issues, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, What Not To Wear, Writing

The Question Is Not The Question

By Karen Kelsky | December 19, 2014

Kellee and I were chatting the other day about her work in Interview Interventions over the past few months. She said to me, "What clients always need to understand is that the question is not the question!  They always think the question is asking … [Read more...] about The Question Is Not The Question

Filed Under: How to Interview, Major Job Market Mistakes, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Adjectives Are Not Arguments, Part I

By Karen Kelsky | October 31, 2014

It is time that all of you grasped a simple yet profound truth of academic writing: adjectives are not arguments. Simply repeating the words: complex multivalent/multidirectional/multiplicitous unique diasporic transnational … [Read more...] about Adjectives Are Not Arguments, Part I

Filed Under: How to Interview, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, Major Job Market Mistakes, Teaching and Research Statements, Writing

Grad Student Grandiosity

By Karen Kelsky | August 15, 2014

Grad students tend to veer between two extremes: I know nothing and I know everything.  The latter position is an over-compensatory response to fear of the former. As you gain experience you find a middle ground of calm confidence. However, at the … [Read more...] about Grad Student Grandiosity

Filed Under: Book Proposals and Contracts, Graduate Student Concerns, How to Get Grants and Fellowships, How to Interview, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Promote Yourself!, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Writing

ASK THE #POST-ACS – How do I describe my academic work experience in post-ac interviews?

By Karen Kelsky | May 26, 2014

The following is the first in a new occasional series, "Ask the #Postacs."  The panel of postacademic experts (bios here) will weigh in on reader questions as a collective.  Please send your questions for future columns to postaccareers@gmail.com.  … [Read more...] about ASK THE #POST-ACS – How do I describe my academic work experience in post-ac interviews?

Filed Under: How to Interview, Post-Ac Job Search, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

You Have an Interview. Now What? — Fruscione #3

By Karen Kelsky | May 6, 2014

From this week we are moving from a general "buck up, little soldier"  support for your decision to transition to the post-ac search, toward targeted advice about the search itself.  We'll be focusing on all the core elements of the job … [Read more...] about You Have an Interview. Now What? — Fruscione #3

Filed Under: How to Interview, Post-Ac Job Search, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Dr. Karen’s Rules of the Campus Visit

By Karen Kelsky | February 7, 2014

This post was previously published ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Today's post is another response to pleas from clients and strangers, this time to cover the proper comportment for a campus visit. I feel like I've already talked … [Read more...] about Dr. Karen’s Rules of the Campus Visit

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

Really? An #MLA14 Panel on Interviewing

By Karen Kelsky | January 10, 2014

So I'm at the MLA, and I went to my first panel, Demonstration Interviews for Job Seekers in Foreign Languages.  Professors Sibelan Forrester of Swarthmore College and Patrizia C. McBride of Cornell led two mock interviews with two folks playing the … [Read more...] about Really? An #MLA14 Panel on Interviewing

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, How to Interview, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

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