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How To Pack and Dress For Your Campus Visit (Inc. Cold-Weather Tips)

By Karen Kelsky | November 15, 2011

In response to pleas from clients with campus visit invitations, I am devoting the post today to a quick discussion of how to dress for campus visits , particularly in the cold weather. This post is for women (who present as women), since everyone … [Read more...] about How To Pack and Dress For Your Campus Visit (Inc. Cold-Weather Tips)

Filed Under: How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, The Campus Visit, What Not To Wear Tagged With: campus visit advice, handling the campus visit, how to act on campus visits, how to dress for campus visit, how to dress for the fly-out

Dealing With the Informal Conference “Chat”

By Karen Kelsky | November 9, 2011

Today's post is a Special Request Post for Cynthia, who wishes to know how she should deal with an invitation from a search committee member to meet and “chat” informally at an upcoming conference. These invitations are evil. Search committees … [Read more...] about Dealing With the Informal Conference “Chat”

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

How To Dress for an Interview as a Butch Dyke

By Karen Kelsky | November 7, 2011

[Updated Sept 2021] Today’s post is a Special Request post for Digger, who asks, “how is a butch dyke to dress for a conference or campus interview?”  She goes on, “I recently tried to girl-up my wardrobe, and it was pretty much a disaster … [Read more...] about How To Dress for an Interview as a Butch Dyke

Filed Under: How To Do Conferences, How to Interview, Intersectional Analyses, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, The Campus Visit, What Not To Wear, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

The Campus Visit, Part 1: Search Committee Interview

By Karen Kelsky | November 4, 2011

[This post is excerpted from the Professor's Guide to Taming the Academic Job Market, available at The Prof Shop.] I will address some specific questions to expect in the search committee interview below. Before that, however, I wish to emphasize … [Read more...] about The Campus Visit, Part 1: Search Committee Interview

Filed Under: How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, The Campus Visit Tagged With: campus visit interview questions, handling the campus visit, the search committee interview, what happens on a campus visit

On To The Conference Interview!

By Karen Kelsky | November 2, 2011

(This post is an update of an earlier post, "How Not To Fuck Up Your Conference Interview."  ) You have submitted your cover letter, your c.v., and your recommendations. And lo! You've been long short-listed, and invited for a conference interview! … [Read more...] about On To The Conference Interview!

Filed Under: How To Do Conferences, How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, What Not To Wear Tagged With: first round academic interview, the academic job search, the conference interview

Rocking the Phone/Skype Interview

By Karen Kelsky | October 31, 2011

A number of clients have asked me for a post on phone and Skype interviews, and I'm happy to oblige. There are some tricks of the trade for this kind of interview that can very helpful to know. Now, the standard preparation for interviews of … [Read more...] about Rocking the Phone/Skype Interview

Filed Under: How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, What Not To Wear

Editing Your C.V. and Letter for Teaching/Writing Positions

By Karen Kelsky | October 28, 2011

Today's post is a Special Request post for a reader who shall remain anonymous. Her question concerns how to tailor her letter and c.v. for different jobs. Here's the background: She is a Victorian literature specialist and on the job market in … [Read more...] about Editing Your C.V. and Letter for Teaching/Writing Positions

Filed Under: How to Interview, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, How To Write CVs, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Tenure--How To Get It Tagged With: applying to generalist positions, applying to Writing positions, how to tailor your job letter, tailoring your c.v., tailoring your letter for a generalist position

Women Fail, But Men Bomb: A Special Request Post for Guys on the Market

By Karen Kelsky | October 12, 2011

Today's post is a Special Request post for Jon, who wrote very good-naturedly to ask, “You have much advice for women. Got any male-specific advice for the ABD, on-the-market sort of guy?” Jon went on to ask, “did you ever meet a promising job or … [Read more...] about Women Fail, But Men Bomb: A Special Request Post for Guys on the Market

Filed Under: How to Interview, Major Job Market Mistakes, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, What Not To Wear

Is That Your Final Answer? Or, Why Graduate Students Ramble

By Karen Kelsky | October 10, 2011

Graduate students ramble. The question is not, do you ramble. The question is, why. I was on the phone with a client last week, working on interview responses for an upcoming fellowship interview, and for the first time, I understood the answer to … [Read more...] about Is That Your Final Answer? Or, Why Graduate Students Ramble

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

Interviewing and Confidence

By Karen Kelsky | October 3, 2011

This past week I did a handful of “Interview Bootcamp” sessions with clients, and will soon have many more.  People are starting to look ahead hopefully to the pain and the glory of conference interviews and campus visits. And it got me thinking … [Read more...] about Interviewing and Confidence

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

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