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Framing Your Freelance Experience on the Academic Job Market – Fruscione #postac post

By Karen Kelsky | February 2, 2015

by Joe Fruscione After my most recent piece on academic editing, a reader asked a valuable question: Can anyone comment on the fear that establishing a website advertising editing services will negatively affect your chances of getting a … [Read more...] about Framing Your Freelance Experience on the Academic Job Market – Fruscione #postac post

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Post-Ac Job Search, Publishing Issues, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Shame

EnGendering Confidence – Part 1 (Cardozo #postac post)

By Karen Kelsky | January 19, 2015

by Karen Cardozo When people ask what the Alt/Post-Ac consultants do, we usually describe a range of services: self-assessment and job-searching strategies, document generation and editing, mock interviews, etc.  Yet the more I work with this … [Read more...] about EnGendering Confidence – Part 1 (Cardozo #postac post)

Filed Under: Alt-University Critique, Mental Health and Academia, Post-Ac Job Search, Promote Yourself!, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Shame

Taking Baby to Conference: A Crowdsource Project

By Karen Kelsky | December 5, 2014

On Facebook in November, I posted this query: “A reader wonders about taking baby to conference: "I'm particularly interested to know if people (grad students in particular) walked around with their babies or if they kept them hidden away (oy). … [Read more...] about Taking Baby to Conference: A Crowdsource Project

Filed Under: How To Do Conferences, Shame, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

An Inconvenient Truth (A Guest Post)

By Karen Kelsky | November 4, 2014

A reader got in touch to tell me about an infuriating experience at a recent conference. I asked her to write it up as a guest post, and here it is. Professors: stop the madness. Tell graduate students the goddamned truth. Dear Karen, I just … [Read more...] about An Inconvenient Truth (A Guest Post)

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Advising Advice, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Major Job Market Mistakes, Ph.D. Poverty, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Shame, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Revenue Generating Activities, or, Time IS Money and Don’t Be Afraid to Think of It That Way

By Karen Kelsky | October 20, 2014

By Sarita Jackson As a former tenure track professor, I was often inundated by numerous service requests and invitations to participate in various activities just within the first year alone. However, I realized that I had the power to … [Read more...] about Revenue Generating Activities, or, Time IS Money and Don’t Be Afraid to Think of It That Way

Filed Under: Ph.D. Poverty, Post-Ac Job Search, Resumes & Postac Docs, Shame, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Finding Inner Conviction – Part I of 3 (Cardozo)

By Karen Kelsky | July 29, 2014

Dr. Karen Cardozo offers a 3-part series on developing new ways to "track" unexpected opportunities as you pursue your post-ac transition.  She draws from the work of Martha Beck, which I also love. I know this kind of wooey Oprah-talk will alienate … [Read more...] about Finding Inner Conviction – Part I of 3 (Cardozo)

Filed Under: Alt-University Critique, Post-Ac Job Search, Shame, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Rape Threats Revisited

By Karen Kelsky | June 15, 2014

Most folks active in the academic blogosphere are aware of the nightmarish situation that developed over the past week around Sarah Kendzior and rape threats she received, and the insanely escalating blizzard of abuse directed at her upon Jacobin … [Read more...] about Rape Threats Revisited

Filed Under: Alt-University Critique, Intersectional Analyses, Shame, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

What Do You Like To Do? Polizzi #5

By Karen Kelsky | June 2, 2014

Allessandria originally titled this post, "Who Do You Want to Be?"  I have changed the title to "What Do You Like To Do?"  I did this because what I've come to understand about the postac job search is that the most important task is to replace your … [Read more...] about What Do You Like To Do? Polizzi #5

Filed Under: Post-Ac Job Search, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Shame, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

What Will You Gain When You Lose? – Langer #2

By Guest Author | May 27, 2014

You know the Special K cereal commercials with the tag line, "What will you gain when you lose?"  I actually can't stand those commercials or any advertising that try to glamorize dieting, market thin-centrism, and sell women on some kind of highly … [Read more...] about What Will You Gain When You Lose? – Langer #2

Filed Under: Post-Ac Job Search, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Shame, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Job Market PTSD

By Karen Kelsky | April 18, 2014

RE-posted from 2011.  When this went up the first time, it got very little response.  That surprised me.  I think this is a real thing.  Readers? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Today's post is another Special Request post, this time coming from Kate, who … [Read more...] about Job Market PTSD

Filed Under: Advising Advice, How To Build Your Tenure File, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Mental Health and Academia, Shame, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Work/Life Balance in Academia

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