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The Campus Visit

No Missed Opportunities on the Campus Visit

By Karen Kelsky | March 10, 2017

Today I posted the biggest Job Market Digest I've ever put up in the three years I've been posting them.  I am so pleased to see how many clients got tenure track and other recurring/full time jobs, both in and out of the academy. Please take a … [Read more...] about No Missed Opportunities on the Campus Visit

Filed Under: Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Promote Yourself!, The Campus Visit

Five Tips for a Successful Teaching Demonstration (Learned From Failure)

By Guest Author | February 13, 2017

________________________________________________________ I'm delighted to introduce our second guest post on the Teaching Demo by Katherine Dugan.  See her first post on the Teaching Demo here. Katherine is now offering individual Teaching … [Read more...] about Five Tips for a Successful Teaching Demonstration (Learned From Failure)

Filed Under: Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Teaching Demos, The Campus Visit

How to Present Effectively

By Karen Kelsky | January 7, 2017

A few weeks ago I had the marvelous good fortune to participate in the Legacy Heritage workshop, a professional development workshop for a select group of Ph.D. students sponsored by the Association for Jewish Studies, and held immediately following … [Read more...] about How to Present Effectively

Filed Under: How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, The Campus Visit

How Can I Help? Interviews, Campus Visits, and Negotiating edition

By Karen Kelsky | December 19, 2016

I have a lot on my mind right now regarding the impact of Trump on academic life.  Kellee and I ran a free Academic Life Under Trump webinar a couple days ago, and it was good to open space for a conversation about the anxieties and uncertainties and … [Read more...] about How Can I Help? Interviews, Campus Visits, and Negotiating edition

Filed Under: How to Interview, Negotiating Offers, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, The Campus Visit

Why Your Job Talk Sucks

By Kel Weinhold | November 28, 2016

by Kel Weinhold, TPII coach and master of our live Skype Job Talk Strategy sessions. It is that time of year again. The job applications of August and September are resulting in campus visits in November, which for the Professor is In means a … [Read more...] about Why Your Job Talk Sucks

Filed Under: Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, The Campus Visit

Asking to Speak to Other People of Color on a Campus Visit

By Karen Kelsky | October 31, 2016

Today's post is adapted from an email followup from a client, who wanted to report back to me her experience as a black female job candidate on a campus visit.  In a webinar this client had asked whether or not it was a good idea to ask the search … [Read more...] about Asking to Speak to Other People of Color on a Campus Visit

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Intersectional Analyses, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, The Campus Visit, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

Don’t Be That Asshole (by Kellee Weinhold)

By Kel Weinhold | March 27, 2016

We continue in our series of interview-focused posts by Kellee Weinhold, the master of Interview Interventions, Job Talk Interventions, and Campus Visit Interventions here at TPII. Several years ago, at a Yom Kippur break fast with a group … [Read more...] about Don’t Be That Asshole (by Kellee Weinhold)

Filed Under: How to Interview, Major Job Market Mistakes, The Campus Visit

How to Write Your Own Rec. Letter, plus All of my Vitae columns

By Karen Kelsky | January 22, 2016

In my two+ gratifying and enjoyable years of writing for Chronicle Vitae, I've only had one column rejected by them, and it is this one, which I submitted late in December as an end-of-year compendium of all my columns, organized thematically. I … [Read more...] about How to Write Your Own Rec. Letter, plus All of my Vitae columns

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Graduate Student Concerns, How To Choose and Manage Recommenders, How to Interview, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Negotiating Offers, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, The Campus Visit, What Not To Wear, Your Second and Third Jobs

Update on My Book: Blurbs, Reviews, and a Promotion

By Karen Kelsky | May 23, 2015

The book inches closer to actually existing in the material world (August 4)!  It has gotten some lovely blurbs by amazing people, like this one by the inimitable Rebecca Schuman: “If you would like your academic career to begin in delusion and end … [Read more...] about Update on My Book: Blurbs, Reviews, and a Promotion

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Advising Advice, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Graduate Student Concerns, How To Choose and Manage Recommenders, How To Do Conferences, How to Get Grants and Fellowships, How to Interview, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, How To Write CVs, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Negotiating Offers, Ph.D. Poverty, Post-Ac Job Search, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Teaching and Research Statements, Teaching Portfolios, The Campus Visit, What Not To Wear

What Not To Do at Your Campus Visit

By Karen Kelsky | April 17, 2015

Today I share some remarks by a tenured client, who just completed a search at her department, and wrote to tell me about it: "We just finished doing a job search here and an offer has been made.  I wanted to share with you something the last … [Read more...] about What Not To Do at Your Campus Visit

Filed Under: How to Interview, Major Job Market Mistakes, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, The Campus Visit, What Not To Wear, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

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