Today we tackle something uncomfortable, which is collecting testimonials and endorsements from people who have worked with you. Academics generally hate the thought of this, because we are trained to believe that good work speaks for itself. And if … [Read more...] about 52 Career Actions: Week 21: Collect Testimonials and Endorsements
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52 Career Actions: Week 22: Audit Your Online Presence
It goes without saying that when you are being considered for a job, you will be googled, and not just for a job. Potential collaborators, conference organizers, journalists looking for someone who knows your subject, students deciding whether to … [Read more...] about 52 Career Actions: Week 22: Audit Your Online Presence
52 Career Actions: Week 20: Practice Telling Your Research Story for Non Academic Audiences
Whether you stay in academia or you leave, you will need to master the art of explaining your research in accessible ways. In academia, you will need it for students mostly, and also folks from far outside your discipline. Outside academia, you need … [Read more...] about 52 Career Actions: Week 20: Practice Telling Your Research Story for Non Academic Audiences
52 Career Actions: Week 17: Overhaul Your LinkedIn Profile!
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!
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