If you are still treating LinkedIn as an optional social media platform for business people, please stop. For academics pursuing careers beyond the tenure track, LinkedIn is not optional. It is your public-facing professional profile, your … [Read more...] about 52 Career Actions: Week 17: Overhaul Your LinkedIn Profile!
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52 Career Actions: Week 14: Update your academic CV and resume, separately.
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.
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
Rupture isn’t Burnout: Career Grief in a Collapsing Academy – Guest Post
By Tamara Yakaboski, PhD Bio: Tamara Yakaboski, PhD, spent almost 20 years as a professor and administrator before confronting the reality that academia, for many, is no longer sustainable. Whether due to burnout, institutional dysfunction, or … [Read more...] about Rupture isn’t Burnout: Career Grief in a Collapsing Academy – Guest Post
52 Career Actions: Week 11: Identify the Key Gaps in Your Skillset
Let me be direct: you cannot fix what you refuse to name. By Week 11, the initial glow of “I’m getting organized” has worn off, which is good because now we get to the part that actually changes outcomes. This week is not about polishing what you … [Read more...] about 52 Career Actions: Week 11: Identify the Key Gaps in Your Skillset
I Didn’t Leave Academia; I Just Moved – Guest Post
Nicola M. Imbracsio, Ph.D. Nicola Imbracsio is from Boston, MA. A first-generation college student, she attended Clark University before collecting degrees from UMass Boston (MA in English), Emerson College (MFA in Applied Theatre), and the … [Read more...] about I Didn’t Leave Academia; I Just Moved – Guest Post
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
52 Career Actions: Week 9: Write a 90 Second Career Pitch
Sorry I am a bit late on this one. Did I mention, Kel is buying a bookstore? As we box up about half of the 30,000 (no that's not a typo) books shoved into every available nook and cranny by the previous hoarder owner, I have been knee deep in … [Read more...] about 52 Career Actions: Week 9: Write a 90 Second Career Pitch
52 Career Actions: Week 8: Update Your LinkedIn Profile!
Take a deep breath. It's time to face that thing you've been avoiding. That thing that strikes fear in the heart of virtually every academic. That thing that announces to the world that a) you exist and b) you are looking for work. Yes, reader, I … [Read more...] about 52 Career Actions: Week 8: Update Your LinkedIn Profile!