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MLA Job Advice (A Guest Post)

By Karen Kelsky | August 17, 2013

I missed my weekly Friday post yesterday because I had grand plans to make it a video post, but when I recorded the video, I couldn't get it to upload.   I ended up delivering my little lecture on tailoring the job letter three times at different … [Read more...] about MLA Job Advice (A Guest Post)

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Graduate Student Concerns, How to Interview, How To Write CVs, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, What Not To Wear

The Six Ways You’re Acting Like a Grad Student (And how that’s killing you on the job market)

By Karen Kelsky | May 10, 2013

For the next few months I will be posting the "best of the best" Professor is in blog posts on the job market, for the benefit of all those girding their loins for the 2013-2014 … [Read more...] about The Six Ways You’re Acting Like a Grad Student (And how that’s killing you on the job market)

Filed Under: How To Do Conferences, How to Interview, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Tenure--How To Get It, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia Tagged With: academic job market help, assertiveness training exercise, body language of women, getting a tenure track job, How to deal with professors, How to shake hands, women professional success, women succeeding in graduate school

For North Americans: the peculiar British interview process (A Guest Post)

By Karen Kelsky | April 2, 2013

This wonderful post on the British academic interview process is written by Kean Birch, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science at York University in Canada.  It was originally published on his blog.  He received his Ph.D. in … [Read more...] about For North Americans: the peculiar British interview process (A Guest Post)

Filed Under: How to Interview, International Perspectives, Major Job Market Mistakes

The Baggage We Bring: An Email From A Bootcamp Client

By Karen Kelsky | January 11, 2013

This email from a client, following on an Interview Bootcamp with Kellee, is an insightful articulation of the ways that anxieties, resentments, and insecurities about your work and the profession can seep into your ability to prepare for and perform … [Read more...] about The Baggage We Bring: An Email From A Bootcamp Client

Filed Under: Alt-University Critique, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Graduate Student Concerns, How to Interview, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Work/Life Balance in Academia

How Do I Address Search Committee Members?

By Karen Kelsky | January 4, 2013

I am hereby answering the question of the hour/day/year:  how should you address search committee members in an interview? You know of course that I am continually railing against job candidates acting like grad students.  And addressing search … [Read more...] about How Do I Address Search Committee Members?

Filed Under: How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Promote Yourself!, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

How Do I Ask If There Is An Inside Candidate?

By Karen Kelsky | December 21, 2012

You do not ask if there is an inside candidate. I don’t care if you strongly suspect that there is, and have good reason to believe the whole damned search is a completely pointless charade because they obviously already have somebody chosen….it … [Read more...] about How Do I Ask If There Is An Inside Candidate?

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

Do Your Homework! A Live Report From a Job Search

By Karen Kelsky | December 17, 2012

Sometimes readers send me "reports from the front" of the job searches in their departments.  Last week I got this report from a former client who wanted to tell me about how a young ABD candidate prevailed over a much more experienced Rising … [Read more...] about Do Your Homework! A Live Report From a Job Search

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

The Value of the Interview Bootcamp

By Kel Weinhold | December 14, 2012

Today's post is by Kellee Weinhold, who shares her insights after taking over the Interview Bootcamps in November. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After a few weeks of interview bootcamps, I must admit to a bit of academic PTSD. More … [Read more...] about The Value of the Interview Bootcamp

Filed Under: How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Promote Yourself!, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, The Campus Visit

Preparing for Your Interviews

By Karen Kelsky | November 9, 2012

Conferences have started and interviews have begun.  TPII clients are scarfing up interview invites right and left, and it's very gratifying. Normally, I would expect to do an Interview Bootcamp with most of my clients, to prepare them for the real … [Read more...] about Preparing for Your Interviews

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

You’re Elite, The Job is Not: How Do You Tell Them You’ll Really Stay?

By Karen Kelsky | August 2, 2012

Today’s post is a Special Request Post for a reader, an ABD from an Ivy League, who wrote to ask, rather plaintively, how she might reassure a search committee for a job at a small, regional, teaching college that she Really Will Stay, if offered the … [Read more...] about You’re Elite, The Job is Not: How Do You Tell Them You’ll Really Stay?

Filed Under: How to Interview, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

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