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Major Job Market Mistakes

Trailer Park Professor: On R1 Success and Learning to Value Yourself (A Guest Post)

By Karen Kelsky | March 30, 2019

I got the chance to meet a client-turned-R1 assistant professor at the AAA meetings, and I asked her what she found most helpful about the work with me.  She took the time to write it out. This is what she wrote. I finished my PhD in Anthropology … [Read more...] about Trailer Park Professor: On R1 Success and Learning to Value Yourself (A Guest Post)

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Graduate Student Concerns, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Mental Health and Academia, Shame, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

A Personal Note From Karen

By Karen Kelsky | November 5, 2018

I want to offer a personal note. I've had an extraordinarily difficult year. My teenage son has struggled with mental health challenges that have required constant attention as well as constant travel, along with a profound reevaluation of my family … [Read more...] about A Personal Note From Karen

Filed Under: How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Mental Health and Academia, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, The Campus Visit

Banish These Words: Sexism and Binarism Edition – Guest Post by Maggie Levantovskaya

By Karen Kelsky | September 21, 2018

By Dr. Maggie Levantovskaya Maggie Levantovskaya is one of our TPII editors, and a writer and adjunct professor based in the Bay Area. Let’s talk about sexist language in job application materials. I read countless cover letters, teaching … [Read more...] about Banish These Words: Sexism and Binarism Edition – Guest Post by Maggie Levantovskaya

Filed Under: Advising Advice, International Perspectives, Intersectional Analyses, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Marginalized Voices, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Writing

Know These Things Before Negotiating

By Karen Kelsky | February 9, 2018

Yesterday I led the first Negotiating webinar of this academic year; I'm already deep in Negotiating Assistance help, which started in earnest in December.  Each year that I have offered this help, I've noticed that the timeline of offers has moved … [Read more...] about Know These Things Before Negotiating

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

Your Academic Cover Letter: Don’t Fall into the Cliché Trap About Teaching!

By Karen Kelsky | November 18, 2017

By TPII editor extraordinaire, Verena Hutter This is a continuation of our 2017 series on the Academic Cover Letter. Verena is walking us through the paragraphs of the cover letter.  Scroll back through the blog over the past 10 weeks or so for … [Read more...] about Your Academic Cover Letter: Don’t Fall into the Cliché Trap About Teaching!

Filed Under: How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Writing

Effective Slides for Your Job Talk and Beyond: 9 Myths To Stop Believing – Guest Post

By Karen Kelsky | November 10, 2017

By Echo Rivera, PhD Independent Research and Evaluation Consultant Owner, Creative Research Communications, LLC Hi! I’m Dr. Echo Rivera. My passion is helping researchers, academics, scientists, and evaluators become effective visual … [Read more...] about Effective Slides for Your Job Talk and Beyond: 9 Myths To Stop Believing – Guest Post

Filed Under: How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, The Campus Visit

The UK Job Market, Part III: “I Beg Your Pardon, But May I Have This Job?” (The Winning Cover Letter)

By Karen Kelsky | November 3, 2017

By Alice Kelly, Ph.D. Alice Kelly is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. She completed her PhD in English at Cambridge in 2014, with a year as a Fox Fellow at Yale, and before that she studied at Sussex, Reed College … [Read more...] about The UK Job Market, Part III: “I Beg Your Pardon, But May I Have This Job?” (The Winning Cover Letter)

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

The UK Job Market Part II: Research By Numbers, or The REF

By Karen Kelsky | October 20, 2017

By Alice Kelly, Ph.D. Alice Kelly is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. She completed her PhD in English at Cambridge in 2014, with a year as a Fox Fellow at Yale, and before that she studied at Sussex, Reed College … [Read more...] about The UK Job Market Part II: Research By Numbers, or The REF

Filed Under: International Perspectives, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Publishing Issues, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Your Academic Cover Letter – The Second Project Paragraph

By Karen Kelsky | October 6, 2017

By TPII editor extraordinaire, Verena Hutter This is a continuation of our 2017 series on the Academic Cover Letter. After you’ve outlined your publications and planned publications, you’ll outline your second project. Two things right away:  I … [Read more...] about Your Academic Cover Letter – The Second Project Paragraph

Filed Under: How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Publishing Issues, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Writing

Please, Sir, I Want Some More Employment: Applying For UK Jobs, Part I – The Lay of the Land

By Karen Kelsky | September 29, 2017

By Alice Kelly, Ph.D. Alice Kelly is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Her academic training has been in the UK and the US. She completed her PhD in English at Cambridge in 2014, with a year as a Fox Fellow at Yale, and … [Read more...] about Please, Sir, I Want Some More Employment: Applying For UK Jobs, Part I – The Lay of the Land

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

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