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 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 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)
52 Career Actions: Week 3: Write a Short Professional Bio That Is Not Academic Jargon
Week 3: Write a Short Professional Bio That Is Not Academic Jargon Let’s get something out of the way immediately: If you cannot explain who you are and what you do in plain language, you do not control your professional narrative. Someone else … [Read more...] about 52 Career Actions: Week 3: Write a Short Professional Bio That Is Not Academic Jargon
52 Career Actions: Week 1: First Step: Clarify Your Career Values
First Step: Clarify Your Career Values (Yes, Before You Do Anything Else) Before CV and resumes. Before applications. Before networking. Before “should I leave academia?” You clarify your career values. Not your passions. Not your … [Read more...] about 52 Career Actions: Week 1: First Step: Clarify Your Career Values
52 Weeks of Career Actions You Can Control
If you have a PhD, you have been trained, thoroughly, and over many years, to wait. Wait for the right moment. Wait for the next hiring cycle. Wait for the market to turn around. Wait for your advisor’s approval, the committee’s decision, the … [Read more...] about 52 Weeks of Career Actions You Can Control
BOOK 2ND ED UPDATE, AND EARNEST REQUEST!
Friends, you have successfully bought 1000 of the 2000 "extra" copies of the original The Professor Is In old version that are languishing on Amazon and blocking the new updated version from coming out! THANK YOU!!! (The excess copies were due to a … [Read more...] about BOOK 2ND ED UPDATE, AND EARNEST REQUEST!
The Professor Gets On LinkedIn
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
5 Ways Social Media Helped Me as a WOC, and Tips for You – WOC Guest post
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
Dispatches From the Front: Dealing with a Difficult Dean/Chair
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