There is a particular kind of panic that grips academics when they realize they need a “resume.” Suddenly, your CV, that 32-page monument to your intellectual suffering - the scrupulously delineated publications, conference papers, invited talks, … [Read more...] about 52 Career Actions: Week 14: Update your academic CV and resume, separately.
Post-Ac Free-Lancing and Small Business
52 Career Actions: Week 13: Take a Short Course Relevant to your Target Job
At this stage of the job search, many of you might still be suffering from the lingering academic misconception that employers are searching for perfection. As we've tried to make clear, though, actually they are searching for evidence: that you … [Read more...] about 52 Career Actions: Week 13: Take a Short Course Relevant to your Target Job
52 Career Actions: Week 12: Join One Professional Group Online
Here is a truth that many of you will resist: you cannot build a career in isolation. You may feel productive tucked away with your research, your writing, your carefully curated CV, but if no one knows who you are, what you do, or why it matters, … [Read more...] about 52 Career Actions: Week 12: Join One Professional Group Online
How to Make the Leap from Academia to Founding – Guest Post
When Dr. Travis Webb got in touch with me some time ago to introduce his new business management platform, Yo-Do Software, I was interested in the platform, but even more interested in his personal story of going from a Religion PhD to a business … [Read more...] about How to Make the Leap from Academia to Founding – Guest Post
Etymology Is a Growth Industry?!: Colin Gorrie’s Innovative Post-Ac Path
If you've been hanging around Professor Is In for any length of time, you know that I (Karen) have a side obsession with British early medieval history. Talking about Viking settlements in the North of England? I'm there! Alfred the Great? He's my … [Read more...] about Etymology Is a Growth Industry?!: Colin Gorrie’s Innovative Post-Ac Path
52 Career Actions: Week 7: Create a Weekly Habits Sheet
Congratulations on getting this far! At this point in the series you have already done several things that most PhDs skip when they are thinking about career transitions. You named the career you are trying to build. You audited where your … [Read more...] about 52 Career Actions: Week 7: Create a Weekly Habits Sheet
52 Career Actions: Week 5: Research Job Titles
Week 5: Research Job Titles This week's action is for those considering leaving the academy. At this stage, it's easy think that you are being strategic when you say things like “I’m open to nonacademic work” or “I’ll look outside the … [Read more...] about 52 Career Actions: Week 5: Research Job Titles
12 Steps to a New Job, Step 12: Give Back and Live the Change
In light of the shit show of unprecedented proportions that is academia at the present moment, post-ac coach Kel Weinhold and I launched a 12 part series on leaving academia called, Twelve Steps To A New Job. Kel Weinhold, career coach for The … [Read more...] about 12 Steps to a New Job, Step 12: Give Back and Live the Change
12 Steps to a New Job, Step 11: Pursue Clarity and Resist Denial
In light of the shit show of unprecedented proportions that is academia at the present moment, post-ac coach Kel Weinhold and I launched a 12 part series on leaving academia called, Twelve Steps To A New Job. Kel Weinhold, career coach for The … [Read more...] about 12 Steps to a New Job, Step 11: Pursue Clarity and Resist Denial
12 Steps to a New Job, Step 10: Continued Career Inventory and Ongoing Self-Reflection
Welcome back to our 12 Steps to a New Job series, where we use the 12-Step model (completely secularized, we promise) to guide you through leaving academia. I’m Kel Weinhold, productivity coach for The Professor Is In. I work with postdocs and … [Read more...] about 12 Steps to a New Job, Step 10: Continued Career Inventory and Ongoing Self-Reflection