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
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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 6: Benchmark the Skills You Actually Need
Last week you identified real job titles. Not aspirations. Not identities. Titles that actually exist in the labor market. Now we do the part most PhDs skip. We benchmark the skills. Here is the pattern I see constantly. A PhD finds a job … [Read more...] about 52 Career Actions: Week 6: Benchmark the Skills You Actually Need
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
52 Career Actions: Week 4: Define Your Lane (with Criteria, Not Fantasy)
Define Your Lane (with Criteria, Not Fantasy) We continue with 52 weeks of focusing on what you can control! By now you have done three things: You clarified your career values. You audited where your time actually goes. You wrote a professional … [Read more...] about 52 Career Actions: Week 4: Define Your Lane (with Criteria, Not Fantasy)
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
The Intoxicating Power of Quitting – Guest Post
Kia Sorensen, Ph.D. serves as the Deputy Director of Academic Policy and Authorization (APA) at the Higher Education Coordinating Commission (HECC) in Oregon. In her professional capacity as the Deputy Director of APA, Sorensen manages and provides … [Read more...] about The Intoxicating Power of Quitting – Guest Post
Academic Auto-Depreciation – Guest Post by Deepa Das Acevedo
Deepa Das Acevedo is a legal anthropologist, a tenured associate professor at Emory University School of Law, and Editor-in-Chief of PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review. For the last five years, her research on work law topics has led her … [Read more...] about Academic Auto-Depreciation – Guest Post by Deepa Das Acevedo
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