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How Women Can Speak Better in Public: Stop Apologizing and Get a Career

By Karen Kelsky | July 10, 2012

Dr. Karen is on vacation in Italy July 2012.  During that time she is re-posting older blog posts on her regular Tuesday and Thursday posting days.  She'll recommence new postings some time in … [Read more...] about How Women Can Speak Better in Public: Stop Apologizing and Get a Career

Filed Under: How to Interview, Intersectional Analyses, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Promote Yourself!, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Tenure--How To Get It, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia Tagged With: assertiveness training exercise, effective public speaking for women, fear of speaking in public, female self assertiveness, how to speak in public for women, overcoming fear of speaking, successful presenting for women

What American Idol Tells Us About The Job Market

By Karen Kelsky | April 17, 2012

We watch a lot of American Idol here at The Professor's house.  We have strong opinions.  Personally, I'm a fan of Joshua.  I know that Jessica has the best voice.   But she just doesn't "connect" with the audience, as Randy Jackson constantly … [Read more...] about What American Idol Tells Us About The Job Market

Filed Under: How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Promote Yourself!, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, The Campus Visit, Writing Tagged With: American Idol and marketing yourself, Jessica Sanchez, lessons from american idol

What the Heck is “Assessment”? (A Guest Post)

By Karen Kelsky | April 12, 2012

Today's post is a Guest Post from a faithful reader and client on the tenure track, and also on the job market, who discovered some interesting points about "assessment" while she was at some interviews this year.  More and more often, candidates … [Read more...] about What the Heck is “Assessment”? (A Guest Post)

Filed Under: How to Interview, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Teaching and Research Statements, Teaching Portfolios Tagged With: Assessment strategies in job interviews

How To Talk To A Dean

By Karen Kelsky | April 10, 2012

Over the course of the 2011-2012 job market cycle, several clients wrote to me inquiring about how they should talk to the Dean they were scheduled to meet during their campus visit. Indeed, many, if not most, campus visits still include a visit with … [Read more...] about How To Talk To A Dean

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, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, The Campus Visit Tagged With: Dealing with the Dean

How To Make Small Talk on Your Campus Visit

By Karen Kelsky | March 29, 2012

Today's post is a Special Request post for several clients who are fretting about what to “chat” with faculty about during the informal parts of a campus visit. “What in the world do I talk about??” they inquire. It's always hard to know how to make … [Read more...] about How To Make Small Talk on Your Campus Visit

Filed Under: How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia Tagged With: dealing with campus visit, how to act on the fly-out, the fly-out, what happens on a campus visit

The “Be Yourself” Myth: Performing the Academic Self on the Job Market

By Karen Kelsky | March 20, 2012

Today's post is a reprint of my recent column in Inside Higher Ed, called "The 'Be Yourself' Myth."   As some of you know, I write an occasional column for IHE under the theme "Academic Mythbusters."  I take a prevailing delusion that afflicts … [Read more...] about The “Be Yourself” Myth: Performing the Academic Self on the Job Market

Filed Under: Graduate Student Concerns, How to Interview, Major Job Market Mistakes, Promote Yourself!, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia Tagged With: Acting like a professor, Don't Be Yourself

Many Joys of the Videoconference Interview (A Guest Post)

By Karen Kelsky | March 13, 2012

This guest post is by a client who is a 2012 Ph.D. in  Romance Languages and Literature.   She wrote last week to tell me of her success in scoring a top-ranked multi-year fellowship.  In the email she alluded to a catastrophic skype interview. … [Read more...] about Many Joys of the Videoconference Interview (A Guest Post)

Filed Under: How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Strategizing Your Success in Academia Tagged With: dealing with videoconferencing, the skype interview, video interview

What Should Graduate Students Ask Candidates? A Special Request Post

By Karen Kelsky | March 6, 2012

Continuing on my theme of speaking directly to current graduate students, today's post is a Special Request post for a graduate student reader who contacted me to ask what kinds of questions she and her peers should be asking the job candidates … [Read more...] about What Should Graduate Students Ask Candidates? A Special Request Post

Filed Under: Graduate Student Concerns, How to Interview, Promote Yourself! Tagged With: graduate student questions for candidates, graduate student representatives on search committees

Dr. Karen’s (Partial) Rules of the Job Talk

By Karen Kelsky | February 23, 2012

I've been asked by many readers to write about the Job Talk. I've resisted doing this because I believe that by the time you are writing your job talk, any meaningful advice has to be completely personalized. In other words, general rules about job … [Read more...] about Dr. Karen’s (Partial) Rules of the Job Talk

Filed Under: How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, The Campus Visit Tagged With: how to do a job talk, The job talk, what is a job talk

Be Professorial

By Karen Kelsky | February 21, 2012

If you had asked me, prior to my opening of The Professor Is In, what I imagined would be the biggest communicative challenge of young job candidates, I would have said, “being excessively pompous and pretentious.” And I would have been … [Read more...] about Be Professorial

Filed Under: How To Do Conferences, How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

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