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EnGendering Confidence: Part 2 – Cardozo

By Karen Kelsky | February 16, 2015

by Karen Cardozo In my last post I talked about an endemic lack of confidence as the structured byproduct of academic training – one that reveals itself most clearly at the point when PhDs contemplate changing careers. In an interdisciplinary … [Read more...] about EnGendering Confidence: Part 2 – Cardozo

Filed Under: Post-Ac Job Search, Promote Yourself!, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Shame, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

Dr. Karen’s (Partial) Rules for the Artist’s Statement

By Karen Kelsky | January 20, 2015

It may surprise you to hear that I edit Artist Statements, but I do.  Not a ton, but enough that this post has become necessary.  I want to urge everyone to read this excellent post on the subject by Ben Davis, which targets the kind of overblown, … [Read more...] about Dr. Karen’s (Partial) Rules for the Artist’s Statement

Filed Under: Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Promote Yourself!, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Teaching and Research Statements, Writing

The Question Is Not The Question

By Karen Kelsky | December 19, 2014

Kellee and I were chatting the other day about her work in Interview Interventions over the past few months. She said to me, "What clients always need to understand is that the question is not the question!  They always think the question is asking … [Read more...] about The Question Is Not The Question

Filed Under: How to Interview, Major Job Market Mistakes, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success 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

Stop Acting Like a Grad Student, Redux: “After My Defense, I Will…”

By Karen Kelsky | October 22, 2014

I am always telling clients to stop "sounding like a grad student."  But the trouble is, clients don't understand all the ways that they do this. Some are obvious.  "While a grad student in the English Ph.D. program, I....."  is a sure giveaway.  … [Read more...] about Stop Acting Like a Grad Student, Redux: “After My Defense, I Will…”

Filed Under: How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Writing

Banish These Words, 2014

By Karen Kelsky | September 26, 2014

Previously I told you to banish the words "unique" and "burgeoning." Here is a new set of painfully overused, excruciatingly tedious, annoyingly self-important, and frustratingly vacant words  to be banished in 2014: Banish these … [Read more...] about Banish These Words, 2014

Filed Under: How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Writing

Grad Student Grandiosity

By Karen Kelsky | August 15, 2014

Grad students tend to veer between two extremes: I know nothing and I know everything.  The latter position is an over-compensatory response to fear of the former. As you gain experience you find a middle ground of calm confidence. However, at the … [Read more...] about Grad Student Grandiosity

Filed Under: Book Proposals and Contracts, Graduate Student Concerns, How to Get Grants and Fellowships, How to Interview, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Promote Yourself!, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Writing

In Response to Popular Demand, More on the 5-Year Plan

By Karen Kelsky | May 9, 2014

This is a repost of an older post.  It follows sequentially from last week's on the five-year plan. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In response to the flood of inquiries about what, exactly, a 5-Year Plan should look like, following on last week's post, … [Read more...] about In Response to Popular Demand, More on the 5-Year Plan

Filed Under: Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Graduate Student Concerns, How To Build Your Tenure File, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia Tagged With: Graduate school 5-year plan

Why You Need a 5-Year Plan

By Karen Kelsky | May 2, 2014

This is a re-post of a previously published post.  In the wind-down weeks of Spring, we will focus on big-picture planning for your career trajectory in the immediate and longer term. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When I trained my own Ph.D. students, I … [Read more...] about Why You Need a 5-Year Plan

Filed Under: Graduate Student Concerns, How To Build Your Tenure File, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Tenure--How To Get It, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia Tagged With: five year plan for tenure, planning for tenure, planning for the Ph.D.

More on Negotiating–Thoughts from an R1 Department Head

By Karen Kelsky | April 4, 2014

Discussion of negotiating the tenure track offer continues apace.  Last week I was included in an email exchange between Rebecca Schuman and Mike Tarr, Department Head of the Psychology department at Carnegie Mellon University.  Mike got in touch … [Read more...] about More on Negotiating–Thoughts from an R1 Department Head

Filed Under: Major Job Market Mistakes, Negotiating Offers, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood

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