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Negotiating Offers

The Job Offer Digest

By Karen Kelsky | February 27, 2015

Those of you who follow me on Facebook know that last week a little debate arose there about whether it was good to anonymously post all the job (and postdoc) offers received by my clients, or if that practice had the effect of making less successful … [Read more...] about The Job Offer Digest

Filed Under: Advising Advice, How to Interview, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Negotiating Offers, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Your Second and Third Jobs

Don’t State the Obvious

By Karen Kelsky | January 16, 2015

There is a kind of line in job documents that is technically blameless, but is so generic, so very much "stating the obvious" that it also completely pointless.  This kind of line fills space while doing nothing to distinguish you in any way. The … [Read more...] about Don’t State the Obvious

Filed Under: How To Build Your Tenure File, How to Interview, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, Major Job Market Mistakes, Negotiating Offers, Postdoc Issues, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, What Not To Wear, Writing

More on Negotiating–Thoughts from an R1 Department Head

By Karen Kelsky | April 4, 2014

Discussion of negotiating the tenure track offer continues apace.  Last week I was included in an email exchange between Rebecca Schuman and Mike Tarr, Department Head of the Psychology department at Carnegie Mellon University.  Mike got in touch … [Read more...] about More on Negotiating–Thoughts from an R1 Department Head

Filed Under: Major Job Market Mistakes, Negotiating Offers, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood

The Rescinded Offer: Who Is In the Wrong?

By Karen Kelsky | March 14, 2014

I keep getting asked about the recent rescinded offer in Philosophy at Nazareth College, which originally popped up on Philosophy Smoker, (with a response from the rescindee, "W," here), went to Jezebel, then Forbes, and shows no signs of … [Read more...] about The Rescinded Offer: Who Is In the Wrong?

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

Stop Negotiating Like a Girl

By Karen Kelsky | March 7, 2014

A re-post ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This post comes from an email exchange this week, with a client who is working with me on Negotiating Assistance.  Discipline, institution, etc. all excised. She has more than one offer, and drafted … [Read more...] about Stop Negotiating Like a Girl

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

Why Have I No Power? Thoughts on Negotiating the Tenure Track Offer

By Karen Kelsky | March 22, 2013

I was working with a Negotiating Assistance client last week, and about halfway through our work, as I said for the fourth time or so, “you can't really ask for ALL of that; you'll have to pick and choose,” he cried out over email, “But why? Why have … [Read more...] about Why Have I No Power? Thoughts on Negotiating the Tenure Track Offer

Filed Under: Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Negotiating Offers, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

A Letter From a Reader (With Thoughts on What Professors Make)

By Karen Kelsky | May 8, 2012

I am interrupting regularly scheduled programming to share this email I received from a reader this week. I share it for several reasons. The first is as a follow-up to last week's post, "What's It Like to Work with the Professor?" In that post I … [Read more...] about A Letter From a Reader (With Thoughts on What Professors Make)

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Negotiating Offers, Postdoc Issues, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, The Campus Visit Tagged With: phd salary structure, professor salaries, what professors make

Job Market Horror Stories, Part I: The Rescinded Offer

By Karen Kelsky | January 3, 2012

This is another guest post by a reader who shall remain anonymous.  This reader kindly wrote in response to my request for stories about "rescinded offers."  The stories here are alarming, although in this reader's case, they have a happy … [Read more...] about Job Market Horror Stories, Part I: The Rescinded Offer

Filed Under: How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Negotiating Offers, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, The Campus Visit, Your Second and Third Jobs Tagged With: academic job offers cancelled, how to negotiate academic job offers, rescinded job offers

The Unknown and Unknowable of the Job Market

By Karen Kelsky | December 27, 2011

Today's post is a guest post from a reader who shall remain anonymous.  She shares her experiences with what she calls the "Unknown and Unknowable" aspects of the job search.  Her message is invaluable:  stay loose, flexible, and open to sudden … [Read more...] about The Unknown and Unknowable of the Job Market

Filed Under: How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Negotiating Offers, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, The Campus Visit Tagged With: Academic job market bloopers, Stories of the academic job search

Negotiating the Spousal Hire

By Karen Kelsky | December 15, 2011

[This post is based on parts of last week's post "How To Negotiate Your Tenure Track Offer." Since some readers focused on the spousal issue may have missed that post, I am publishing this under this new title here.  I welcome comments on any aspect … [Read more...] about Negotiating the Spousal Hire

Filed Under: Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Negotiating Offers, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Tenure--How To Get It, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia Tagged With: getting a spousal offer, spousal hiring, spousal positions in academia, the spousal hire, the two-body problem

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