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Leveling the Academic Playing Field: Our Mission

By Karen Kelsky | August 15, 2022

I periodically publish a Careers Digest on Facebook, and here is the one for August 2022. We'll start a whole new one for the '22-23 academic year from this point on. Our individual goal is to help you advance in your career; our overarching … [Read more...] about Leveling the Academic Playing Field: Our Mission

Filed Under: Academic Job Search, How to Get Grants and Fellowships, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, How To Write CVs, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes

Spring 2022 Career Outcomes Digest

By Karen Kelsky | February 24, 2022

I just gathered up a new Spring 2022 Career Outcomes Digest, with updates from both clients and readers. Lots of great updates on interviews, job offers, negotiations, and grants, plus one successful client tenure case! The negotiators make me … [Read more...] about Spring 2022 Career Outcomes Digest

Filed Under: Academic Job Search, Advising Advice, How to Get Grants and Fellowships, How to Interview, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

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

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

Grad Student Grandiosity

By Karen Kelsky | August 15, 2014

Grad students tend to veer between two extremes: I know nothing and I know everything.  The latter position is an over-compensatory response to fear of the former. As you gain experience you find a middle ground of calm confidence. However, at the … [Read more...] about Grad Student Grandiosity

Filed Under: Book Proposals and Contracts, Graduate Student Concerns, How to Get Grants and Fellowships, How to Interview, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Promote Yourself!, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Writing

The European Project-Based Postdoc

By Karen Kelsky | May 30, 2014

I've worked with a handful of clients applying to project-based postdocs in Europe.  We've had some bumps in the road, as I had to learn the expectations of these postdocs.  A successful reader recently gave me a few pointers, which are below.  The … [Read more...] about The European Project-Based Postdoc

Filed Under: How to Get Grants and Fellowships, International Perspectives, Postdoc Issues, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Two Pet Peeves From the World of Grants

By Karen Kelsky | October 4, 2013

Two pet peeves from the world of grants: A grant proposal must not contain the phrase “I need to,” as in “for my revisions of the manuscript I need to pay closer attention to feminist critiques and read more deeply in the women’s studies … [Read more...] about Two Pet Peeves From the World of Grants

Filed Under: How to Get Grants and Fellowships, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Writing

The Big Issue In Your Grant Proposal

By Karen Kelsky | September 13, 2013

In the Foolproof Grant Template I ask for an opening sentence or two that quickly engages the reader on the "big topic" of the research. My clients have a terrible time grasping what that opening should look like.  They've been so disciplined through … [Read more...] about The Big Issue In Your Grant Proposal

Filed Under: How to Get Grants and Fellowships, Postdoc Issues, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Writing

Why Are There No Elephants? A Common Grant-Writing Error

By Karen Kelsky | November 30, 2012

In recent work on grant applications this year, I’ve finally identified a problem that has bothered me for a long time. People who use the Foolproof Grant Template construct an argument for the urgency of their research by deploying what I call the … [Read more...] about Why Are There No Elephants? A Common Grant-Writing Error

Filed Under: How to Get Grants and Fellowships, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Writing

List Addiction, Cont’d: The Dyad

By Karen Kelsky | November 2, 2012

List addiction is an epidemic among academic writers. I have a blog post about the subject (which I knew nothing about prior to my work in TPII), and I refer at least 50% of clients to that blog post at one point or another.   What is it with … [Read more...] about List Addiction, Cont’d: The Dyad

Filed Under: How to Get Grants and Fellowships, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Postdoc Issues, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Writing

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