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The Professor Gets On LinkedIn

By Karen Kelsky | September 13, 2021

Are you looking at the shitshow that is the '21-'22 academic year and saying, no more?  Are you just... done?  If so, you're in good company. Our relatively new, private FB Mutual Support Group, The Professor Is Out, has been around for less than a … [Read more...] about The Professor Gets On LinkedIn

Filed Under: Goodbye Ivory Towers, Post-Ac Job Search, Promote Yourself!, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Resumes & Postac Docs, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

5 Ways Social Media Helped Me as a WOC, and Tips for You – WOC Guest post

By Guest Author | October 26, 2020

Jennifer van Alstyne is a communications strategist for faculty and researchers. At The Academic Designer LLC, Jennifer helps people and organizations share their work with the world in online spaces. Her blog/podcast, The Social Academic shares … [Read more...] about 5 Ways Social Media Helped Me as a WOC, and Tips for You – WOC Guest post

Filed Under: Marginalized Voices, Promote Yourself!, Women of Color in Academia

Dispatches From the Front: Dealing with a Difficult Dean/Chair

By Karen Kelsky | January 13, 2020

Welcome to our inaugural Dispatches From the Frontlines - our new weekly advice post based on the crowdsourced wisdom of our wonderful readers! Each Monday, we crowdsource a question we get from a reader on Facebook and Twitter with a link to a … [Read more...] about Dispatches From the Front: Dealing with a Difficult Dean/Chair

Filed Under: Dispatches, Postdoc Issues, Promote Yourself!, Publishing Issues, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It, Work/Life Balance in Academia

How To Get Your Department to Pay for Productivity Support

By Karen Kelsky | May 14, 2019

This is part of a previous post on how to get your department to fund your participation in Unstuck: The Art of Productivity and The Art of the Academic Article, but you can use it to ask for any kind of professional development or program … [Read more...] about How To Get Your Department to Pay for Productivity Support

Filed Under: Productivity, Promote Yourself!, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It, Unstuck, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Writing, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

Knowing When to Leave: Lessons from an Academically Unaffiliated Life – WOC Guest Post

By Guest Author | September 7, 2018

I am delighted to offer another guest post contributed in response to my recent call for contributions to the blog by Black women and other women of color. If you’d like to submit a post or an idea for a post for consideration, email me at … [Read more...] about Knowing When to Leave: Lessons from an Academically Unaffiliated Life – WOC Guest Post

Filed Under: Post-Ac Job Search, Promote Yourself!, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Women of Color in Academia, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

Starting A #PostAc Business: Guest Post by TPII Coach Ricky Graham

By Karen Kelsky | August 22, 2018

Part III in a Three Part Series on the Post-ac Transition in Creative Fields, by TPII Post-ac coach, Dr. Ricky Graham.  Be sure and read parts I and II also! I am a guitarist, music producer and former academic from Northern Ireland. I received my … [Read more...] about Starting A #PostAc Business: Guest Post by TPII Coach Ricky Graham

Filed Under: Post-Ac Free-Lancing and Small Business, Post-Ac Job Search, Promote Yourself!, Quitting--An Excellent Option

Always Have a Side Hustle, and Other Lessons I Learned from Academia – WOC Guest Post

By Karen Kelsky | August 12, 2018

I am delighted to offer another guest post contributed in response to my recent call for contributions to the blog by black women and other women of color. Dr. Nneka D. Dennie is a Consortium for Faculty Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting … [Read more...] about Always Have a Side Hustle, and Other Lessons I Learned from Academia – WOC Guest Post

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, Intersectional Analyses, Promote Yourself!, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Women of Color in Academia

Hustle to Get Paid – #Postac Guest Post by TPII Coach Ricky Graham

By Karen Kelsky | April 13, 2018

Part II in a Three Part Series on the Post-ac Transition in Creative Fields, by TPII Post-ac coach, Dr. Ricky Graham I am a guitarist, music producer and former academic from Northern Ireland. I received my PhD from Ulster University in 2012 and I … [Read more...] about Hustle to Get Paid – #Postac Guest Post by TPII Coach Ricky Graham

Filed Under: Post-Ac Free-Lancing and Small Business, Post-Ac Job Search, Promote Yourself!, Quitting--An Excellent Option

Negotiating As Therapy

By Karen Kelsky | March 16, 2018

Negotiating Assistance is some of my favorite work. I love it when clients prevail and get jobs, but mostly what I love is to help them over that final hump of asking for what they deserve, and putting a monetary price tag on their own value.  This … [Read more...] about Negotiating As Therapy

Filed Under: Intersectional Analyses, Negotiating Offers, Promote Yourself!, Shame, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

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

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