By Cecilia Caballero. Bio: Based in LA, Cecilia Caballero is a single mother, creative nonfiction writer, poet, teaching artist, and lecturer of Ethnic Studies. As a teaching artist, Cecilia facilitates generative poetry workshops for BIPOC … [Read more...] about Paying The Price: The Costs of Academia for First-Gen BIPOC Scholars
Negotiating Offers
Career Outcomes Digest, Spring 2022
I'm happy to share another digest. Stories of leaving academia have migrated over to the Professor Is Out FB group so I don't get them in my inbox much anymore... But suffice to say, there are PLENTY of those too! Negotiating Client: Karen– … [Read more...] about Career Outcomes Digest, Spring 2022
How to Hop From One Tenure Track Job to Another
This is a re-post of an older Chronicle Vitae piece that has been de-activated. All the advice remains relevant. Q: I’m applying for my second tenure-track job. What are things I need to be careful of? Karen: When you have a … [Read more...] about How to Hop From One Tenure Track Job to Another
Offers and Counteroffers
This is a repost of an old Chronicle Vitae piece that has been de-activated. All the advice remains relevant in 2021. Question: I received a tenure-track offer that I’m unsure about taking. I went to my dean and asked if the university … [Read more...] about Offers and Counteroffers
“I Ran and Hid From My Computer” – Women and Negotiating Redux
Yet another woman client (this time a senior, tenured scholar) with a tenured offer from a famously wealthy and elite institution, was told by all of her mentors that she was "crazy" for wanting to negotiate the offer, and would risk "alienating … [Read more...] about “I Ran and Hid From My Computer” – Women and Negotiating Redux
Women Are Punished For Negotiating?
Last week I put this article from the UK-based Independent on The Professor Is In FB page: "Four in Five Women Could Be Missing Out on Wages by Not Negotiating Pay When Applying for Jobs." Sure enough, the VERY first comment is from a (white) … [Read more...] about Women Are Punished For Negotiating?
The Perspective You Need in Negotiating Academic Job Offers
Today's video post is about Negotiating. Specifically, the kind of perspective you need to do it well, calibrated to the field, department, campus, region, and job that you're dealing with. I talk you through what to look for. … [Read more...] about The Perspective You Need in Negotiating Academic Job Offers
Job X Is Not Job Y (And Wishing Won’t Make It So)
This year I've encountered a handful of Negotiating clients who fall into the category of unreasonably entitled. These negotiators are indignant about the terms of their offers, and feel they should be entitled to more and better. In particular, … [Read more...] about Job X Is Not Job Y (And Wishing Won’t Make It So)
Negotiating As Therapy
Negotiating Assistance is some of my favorite work. I love it when clients prevail and get jobs, but mostly what I love is to help them over that final hump of asking for what they deserve, and putting a monetary price tag on their own value. This … [Read more...] about Negotiating As Therapy
Know These Things Before Negotiating
Yesterday I led the first Negotiating webinar of this academic year; I'm already deep in Negotiating Assistance help, which started in earnest in December. Each year that I have offered this help, I've noticed that the timeline of offers has moved … [Read more...] about Know These Things Before Negotiating