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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

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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

The Oxbridge Interview (A Guest Post)

By Karen Kelsky | February 20, 2015

The author is an academic in a humanities discipline who has interviewed at both Oxford and Cambridge, with previous success at the former. Currently, s/he holds a senior academic position at another Russell Group university (US:  R1 institution) in … [Read more...] about The Oxbridge Interview (A Guest Post)

Filed Under: How to Interview, International Perspectives, Major Job Market Mistakes, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Americans Don’t Brag

By Karen Kelsky | February 6, 2015

Americans don't brag.  That's not true; Americans brag all the time, about many things--money, sex, the fish that got away.  However, we don't brag as much as you'd expect in our job applications.  This may seem counterintuitive, considering the … [Read more...] about Americans Don’t Brag

Filed Under: How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, International Perspectives, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Promote Yourself!, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

What is the REF? A Primer on UK Academia (Guest Post)

By Karen Kelsky | January 9, 2015

This was generously sent in by a former client, now employed faculty member.  She is Lecturer (assistant professor) at the University of London.  I am always grateful for info on the UK job market, especially the REF.  For more on the UK academic job … [Read more...] about What is the REF? A Primer on UK Academia (Guest Post)

Filed Under: Advising Advice, How To Build Your Tenure File, International Perspectives, Major Job Market Mistakes

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

UK Job Market Advice-Help From Readers

By Karen Kelsky | May 16, 2014

[Updated 12/18/14 to add Negotiating comments and ebook link at the bottom] A reader posted on Facebook a month or so ago, asking some very specific questions about the UK job market. Several readers took the time to respond in detail. I am pasting … [Read more...] about UK Job Market Advice-Help From Readers

Filed Under: Advising Advice, International Perspectives, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

The Dutch Academic Job Market for Americans and Other English Speakers (A Guest Post)

By Karen Kelsky | May 13, 2013

One of my blog commenters, Veronica Davidov, who has worked for many years in the Netherlands, remarked that American job seekers would benefit from knowing more about the Dutch job market, which is relatively open to American candidates. I asked her … [Read more...] about The Dutch Academic Job Market for Americans and Other English Speakers (A Guest Post)

Filed Under: International Perspectives, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

For North Americans: the peculiar British interview process (A Guest Post)

By Karen Kelsky | April 2, 2013

This wonderful post on the British academic interview process is written by Kean Birch, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science at York University in Canada.  It was originally published on his blog.  He received his Ph.D. in … [Read more...] about For North Americans: the peculiar British interview process (A Guest Post)

Filed Under: How to Interview, International Perspectives, Major Job Market Mistakes

If You’re Considering Grad School/Work in Scandinavia, Part II (A Guest Post)

By Karen Kelsky | February 19, 2013

Academic life in Scandinavia This is the story of a British academic couple - now a family - and our experiences of working in Scandinavia. It has a happy ending. It is based entirely on personal experience and does not attempt to be a … [Read more...] about If You’re Considering Grad School/Work in Scandinavia, Part II (A Guest Post)

Filed Under: International Perspectives, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Work/Life Balance in Academia

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