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Negotiating Offers

How (Not) to Negotiate a Tenure Track Salary

By Karen Kelsky | February 24, 2017

It's offer season, and negotiations are underway. I have written a lot about negotiating tenure track offers; here are some links: Part VII of my book, on Negotiating OK, Let's Talk About Negotiating Salary Will My Offer Be Rescinded If I … [Read more...] about How (Not) to Negotiate a Tenure Track Salary

Filed Under: Major Job Market Mistakes, Negotiating Offers, Ph.D. Poverty, Your Second and Third Jobs

How Can I Help? Interviews, Campus Visits, and Negotiating edition

By Karen Kelsky | December 19, 2016

I have a lot on my mind right now regarding the impact of Trump on academic life.  Kellee and I ran a free Academic Life Under Trump webinar a couple days ago, and it was good to open space for a conversation about the anxieties and uncertainties and … [Read more...] about How Can I Help? Interviews, Campus Visits, and Negotiating edition

Filed Under: How to Interview, Negotiating Offers, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, The Campus Visit

Can I Negotiate? Advice For All, Especially International Ph.D.s

By Karen Kelsky | March 21, 2016

I am regularly asked "can I negotiate my offer when it's my only offer?" People constantly seem to think you need multiple offers to have leverage. This is not true. For the vast majority of schools, you can and should negotiate your offer. The … [Read more...] about Can I Negotiate? Advice For All, Especially International Ph.D.s

Filed Under: International Perspectives, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Negotiating Offers, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student

How To Negotiate Your Tenure Track Offer

By Karen Kelsky | February 11, 2016

Negotiating season is in full swing!  I'm working with a whole crew of clients on negotiating their offers, and I've got plenty of room in my schedule for more. Please consider getting in touch; clients routinely increase their offers by … [Read more...] about How To Negotiate Your Tenure Track Offer

Filed Under: Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Negotiating Offers, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia Tagged With: how to get a spousal hire, how to negotiate an academic job, negotiating the tenure track offer, spousal hire in the university, the tenure track job offer

How to Write Your Own Rec. Letter, plus All of my Vitae columns

By Karen Kelsky | January 22, 2016

In my two+ gratifying and enjoyable years of writing for Chronicle Vitae, I've only had one column rejected by them, and it is this one, which I submitted late in December as an end-of-year compendium of all my columns, organized thematically. I … [Read more...] about How to Write Your Own Rec. Letter, plus All of my Vitae columns

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Graduate Student Concerns, How To Choose and Manage Recommenders, How to Interview, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Negotiating Offers, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, The Campus Visit, What Not To Wear, Your Second and Third Jobs

Update on My Book: Blurbs, Reviews, and a Promotion

By Karen Kelsky | May 23, 2015

The book inches closer to actually existing in the material world (August 4)!  It has gotten some lovely blurbs by amazing people, like this one by the inimitable Rebecca Schuman: “If you would like your academic career to begin in delusion and end … [Read more...] about Update on My Book: Blurbs, Reviews, and a Promotion

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Advising Advice, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Graduate Student Concerns, How To Choose and Manage Recommenders, How To Do Conferences, How to Get Grants and Fellowships, How to Interview, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, How To Write CVs, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Negotiating Offers, Ph.D. Poverty, Post-Ac Job Search, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Teaching and Research Statements, Teaching Portfolios, The Campus Visit, What Not To Wear

Teaching In The Non-Believer’s Closet (A Guest Post on Christian Colleges)

By Guest Author | May 15, 2015

The writer is an Instructor at a small Christian college. “God bless you!” I hadn’t just sneezed. I was holding open the door for a colleague struggling under the weight of a file box. “That looks heavy,” I replied, demonstrating for the … [Read more...] about Teaching In The Non-Believer’s Closet (A Guest Post on Christian Colleges)

Filed Under: Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Negotiating Offers, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Buy My Book!

By Karen Kelsky | April 10, 2015

Love the blog? Now get it in handy book form--only $11.40!  Available for pre-order now--comes out August 4! Buy it at all these places! It also makes a great gift for all those struggling grad students in your life! For bulk orders for use … [Read more...] about Buy My Book!

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Book Proposals and Contracts, Graduate Student Concerns, How To Build Your Tenure File, How To Choose and Manage Recommenders, How To Do Conferences, How to Get Grants and Fellowships, How to Interview, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, How To Write CVs, International Perspectives, Intersectional Analyses, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Mental Health and Academia, Negotiating Offers, Ph.D. Poverty, Post-Ac Job Search, Postdoc Issues, Promote Yourself!, Publishing Issues, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Resumes & Postac Docs, Shame, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Teaching and Research Statements, Teaching Portfolios, Tenure--How To Get It, The Campus Visit, What Not To Wear, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Writing, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia, Your Second and Third Jobs

Three Truths and a Lie? Negotiations at the Christian College (A Guest Post)

By Karen Kelsky | March 27, 2015

Today’s anonymous author is a tenured professor in the field of religion at a mid-sized Christian University. He has sat on and chaired numerous search committees for both faculty and administrative hires. He sees the enormous stack of applicants for … [Read more...] about Three Truths and a Lie? Negotiations at the Christian College (A Guest Post)

Filed Under: Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Negotiating Offers

A View From the Other Side of the Table: Playing the Endgame (A Guest Post)

By Karen Kelsky | March 19, 2015

This is a guest post by a tenured reader at a mid-tier public university. If you been invited for a campus visit, congratulations.  This means that you are part of an elite group of 5 or so who have been chosen over the hundred or so other … [Read more...] about A View From the Other Side of the Table: Playing the Endgame (A Guest Post)

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

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