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Landing Your Tenure Track Job

Stop Acting Like a Girl! A Response to Feminist Critics

By Karen Kelsky | October 17, 2011

Some feminists don't like the Dr. Karen method. By the Dr. Karen method I mean my practice of telling women to stop acting “like girls” and to start learning to recognize and master the codes of power and authority that operate in academic settings, … [Read more...] about Stop Acting Like a Girl! A Response to Feminist Critics

Filed Under: Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Tenure--How To Get It, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

Memo to Professors: How Useless Are You? Really?

By Karen Kelsky | September 30, 2011

Regular readers of this blog know that I use this space for focused advice for young academics on overcoming specific pitfalls and challenges in the academic career—how to write an abstract, apply for a grant, deal with a difficult advisor, etc. I … [Read more...] about Memo to Professors: How Useless Are You? Really?

Filed Under: Alt-University Critique, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Should I Use Interfolio?

By Karen Kelsky | September 7, 2011

[Sept 2019 update: the fact is, Interfolio is unavoidable for many searches and required in a number of fields. The advice here is mostly outdated. I'll leave it up because I still think it's worth asking ourselves why this tech adaptation became … [Read more...] about Should I Use Interfolio?

Filed Under: How To Choose and Manage Recommenders, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Tenure--How To Get It, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia Tagged With: Academic recommendation letters, Getting professors to write recommendation letteres, Is interfolio a good idea?, Should I use a dossier service?, Should I use interfolio?

How to Work the Conference (Part Three of Three)

By Karen Kelsky | September 2, 2011

This is Part Three of our three-part series, "How to Work the Conference." Today's column discusses mealtimes and the book exhibit. In last week's post I quoted extensively from The Tenured Radical's column on conferences.  One of her best lines in … [Read more...] about How to Work the Conference (Part Three of Three)

Filed Under: How To Do Conferences, 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

How to Work the Conference (Part Two of Three)

By Karen Kelsky | August 26, 2011

Today we continue with Part Two of the "How to Work the Conference" series (see Part One here).  Today's post deals with how to behave during the conference--that is to say, how to look like you're very busy and in-demand.  Because conferences are … [Read more...] about How to Work the Conference (Part Two of Three)

Filed Under: How To Do Conferences, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Promote Yourself!, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Tenure--How To Get It, What Not To Wear, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

The Perils of Publishing Your Dissertation Online

By Karen Kelsky | August 24, 2011

[July 2019 Update below by Jacqueline Barlow, Open Access Officer at The University of Winchester in Winchester, Hampshire, United Kingdom--please read] Today we are honored to have a guest post by Kathryn Hume, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English … [Read more...] about The Perils of Publishing Your Dissertation Online

Filed Under: Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Publishing Issues, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Tenure--How To Get It

Job Market PTSD

By Karen Kelsky | August 18, 2011

(Thursday Post Category:  Here's How You Get Tenure) Today's post is another Special Request post, this time coming from Kate, who wrote an eloquent email asking for advice on how to cope with what I will call “Job Market PTSD.” By Job Market PTSD … [Read more...] about Job Market PTSD

Filed Under: Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Mental Health and Academia, Negotiating Offers, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia Tagged With: academic job market help, dealing with job market trauma, how to survive the academic job market

How To Work the Conference, Part One of Three

By Karen Kelsky | August 17, 2011

(Wednesday Post Category:  Landing Your Tenure Track Job) [This is the first in a two-part series on Working the National Conference. Part One, today, explains the importance of the conference in an academic career. Part Two, next week, focuses on … [Read more...] about How To Work the Conference, Part One of Three

Filed Under: How To Do Conferences, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Promote Yourself!, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

How Not to F**k Up Your Conference Interview

By Karen Kelsky | August 15, 2011

(Monday Post Category:  Getting You Into and Out of Graduate School) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [Today's post is an excerpt from "Taming The Academic Job Market: The Professor's Guide."  The Guide is on sale in The … [Read more...] about How Not to F**k Up Your Conference Interview

Filed Under: How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia Tagged With: how to prepare for the conference interview, how to rock the conference interview, preparing for your conference interview, the conference interview, what should I do for a conference interview

Negotiating Your Tenure-Track Offer(s)

By Karen Kelsky | August 10, 2011

(Wednesday Post Category:  Getting Your Tenure-Track Job) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [Today's post is an excerpt from "Taming The Academic Job Market: The Professor's Guide."  The Guide is on sale in The Prof … [Read more...] about Negotiating Your Tenure-Track Offer(s)

Filed Under: Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Negotiating Offers, Strategizing Your Success in Academia Tagged With: academic job offer, getting a tenure track job, How to land a tenure track job, negotiating the tenure track job, tenure track job offer, the best academic jobs

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