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MLA Job Advice (A Guest Post)

By Karen Kelsky | August 17, 2013

I missed my weekly Friday post yesterday because I had grand plans to make it a video post, but when I recorded the video, I couldn't get it to upload.   I ended up delivering my little lecture on tailoring the job letter three times at different … [Read more...] about MLA Job Advice (A Guest Post)

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Graduate Student Concerns, How to Interview, How To Write CVs, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, What Not To Wear

On Leaving the Cult (A Letter From a Client)

By Karen Kelsky | August 5, 2013

I get a pretty regular stream of fan mail from clients and readers, and I read all of it, respond to all of it, and deeply appreciate all of it.  When I get a letter from someone telling me how the reading the blog and/or working with me changed … [Read more...] about On Leaving the Cult (A Letter From a Client)

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, Intersectional Analyses, Mental Health and Academia, Ph.D. Poverty, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Writing, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

Chronic Illness, Disability and Heternormativity on the Tenure Track (A Follow-Up Guest Post)

By Guest Author | April 19, 2013

This post is a follow-up to the guest post earlier this week, "The Real Life of a Tenure Track Faculty Person."  That post generated an enormous amount of reaction and comment that is still going on.  One of the commenters asked to know a bit more … [Read more...] about Chronic Illness, Disability and Heternormativity on the Tenure Track (A Follow-Up Guest Post)

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, Graduate Student Concerns, Mental Health and Academia, Ph.D. Poverty, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Work/Life Balance in Academia

Should You Go To Graduate School?

By Karen Kelsky | April 12, 2013

The “don't go to graduate school” debate has flared up again this past week with the publication of this piece in Slate, "Thesis Hatement: Getting a Literature Ph.D. Will Turn You Into an Emotional Train Wreck, Not a Professor.  The author, Rebecca … [Read more...] about Should You Go To Graduate School?

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, Graduate Student Concerns, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

The Imposter Syndrome, or, as my Mother told me: “Just Because Everyone Else is an Asshole, it Doesn’t Make you a Fraud.” (A Guest Post)

By Karen Kelsky | December 11, 2012

Today's post is a Guest Post submitted by a reader of the blog named Phyllis Rippeyoung.  Phyllis is an Associate Professor with tenure, and wrote in with a comment about "Imposter Syndrome."  I responded by asking her if she'd be willing to write a … [Read more...] about The Imposter Syndrome, or, as my Mother told me: “Just Because Everyone Else is an Asshole, it Doesn’t Make you a Fraud.” (A Guest Post)

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Graduate Student Concerns, Major Job Market Mistakes, Mental Health and Academia, Promote Yourself!, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Work/Life Balance in Academia

Location, Location…what?

By Karen Kelsky | September 14, 2012

This past week the Chronicle of Higher Education posted a column by Alexandra Lord, titled “Location, Location, Location.”  Lord is the person behind the site on nonacademic careers, Beyond Academe, and she also runs an online Web journal, the … [Read more...] about Location, Location…what?

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Work/Life Balance in Academia Tagged With: location of academic job

The Perils of “Nice,” Cont’d: Recommendation Edition

By Karen Kelsky | August 22, 2012

I got to see a letter of rec this week, and was stunned at the way it sabotaged my client, a SUPERB AND TOTALLY HARD-ASS candidate.   It did this apparently from the best of intentions, by burying her achievements in endless verbiage about how "nice" … [Read more...] about The Perils of “Nice,” Cont’d: Recommendation Edition

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Graduate Student Concerns, 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

It’s Not About You

By Karen Kelsky | May 22, 2012

Today The Professor continues her mobilization of low brow pop culture references in the service of the scholarly career by bringing to your attention the sentiment, “It’s Not About You.” This is actually another installment in the “Nice … [Read more...] about It’s Not About You

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Graduate Student Concerns, How To Choose and Manage Recommenders, Strategizing Your Success in Academia Tagged With: bad phd advisors, worst graduate advisors

Don’t Be Nice

By Karen Kelsky | May 15, 2012

I can’t believe I’m going to write this, but I was watching Tony Robbins on Oprah a couple weeks ago. I know.  Stay with me here. And although I think that Tony Robbins is really gross, and especially when he starts going on about what women “need” … [Read more...] about Don’t Be Nice

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Strategizing Your Success in Academia Tagged With: stop being nice, the too-nice woman, tony robbins on oprah

Ageism and the Academy: My Thoughts and a Request for Yours

By Karen Kelsky | April 24, 2012

Regular followers of my Facebook page know that for a number of months now I’ve been soliciting a post on aging and age discrimination in academia. I’ve been seeking such a post because of the constant stream of requests I receive from readers to … [Read more...] about Ageism and the Academy: My Thoughts and a Request for Yours

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Advising Advice, Intersectional Analyses, Major Job Market Mistakes, Ph.D. Poverty, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

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