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The Campus Visit

A Letter From a Reader (With Thoughts on What Professors Make)

By Karen Kelsky | May 8, 2012

I am interrupting regularly scheduled programming to share this email I received from a reader this week. I share it for several reasons. The first is as a follow-up to last week's post, "What's It Like to Work with the Professor?" In that post I … [Read more...] about A Letter From a Reader (With Thoughts on What Professors Make)

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Negotiating Offers, Postdoc Issues, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, The Campus Visit Tagged With: phd salary structure, professor salaries, what professors make

What American Idol Tells Us About The Job Market

By Karen Kelsky | April 17, 2012

We watch a lot of American Idol here at The Professor's house.  We have strong opinions.  Personally, I'm a fan of Joshua.  I know that Jessica has the best voice.   But she just doesn't "connect" with the audience, as Randy Jackson constantly … [Read more...] about What American Idol Tells Us About The Job Market

Filed Under: How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Promote Yourself!, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, The Campus Visit, Writing Tagged With: American Idol and marketing yourself, Jessica Sanchez, lessons from american idol

How To Talk To A Dean

By Karen Kelsky | April 10, 2012

Over the course of the 2011-2012 job market cycle, several clients wrote to me inquiring about how they should talk to the Dean they were scheduled to meet during their campus visit. Indeed, many, if not most, campus visits still include a visit with … [Read more...] about How To Talk To A Dean

Filed Under: How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Promote Yourself!, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, The Campus Visit Tagged With: Dealing with the Dean

Dr. Karen’s (Partial) Rules of the Job Talk

By Karen Kelsky | February 23, 2012

I've been asked by many readers to write about the Job Talk. I've resisted doing this because I believe that by the time you are writing your job talk, any meaningful advice has to be completely personalized. In other words, general rules about job … [Read more...] about Dr. Karen’s (Partial) Rules of the Job Talk

Filed Under: How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, The Campus Visit Tagged With: how to do a job talk, The job talk, what is a job talk

Pregnant on Your Campus Visit–A Crowdsource Project

By Karen Kelsky | February 16, 2012

Today's post is a Special Request post for a reader who wishes to know how to handle pregnancy and the job search, particularly the campus visit. This is a subject about which I'm not really qualified to write. I was never pregnant while on the job … [Read more...] about Pregnant on Your Campus Visit–A Crowdsource Project

Filed Under: How to Interview, Intersectional Analyses, Major Job Market Mistakes, The Campus Visit, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia Tagged With: pregnant academic job search, Pregnant Campus Visit

Job Market Horror Stories, Part I: The Rescinded Offer

By Karen Kelsky | January 3, 2012

This is another guest post by a reader who shall remain anonymous.  This reader kindly wrote in response to my request for stories about "rescinded offers."  The stories here are alarming, although in this reader's case, they have a happy … [Read more...] about Job Market Horror Stories, Part I: The Rescinded Offer

Filed Under: How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Negotiating Offers, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, The Campus Visit, Your Second and Third Jobs Tagged With: academic job offers cancelled, how to negotiate academic job offers, rescinded job offers

The Unknown and Unknowable of the Job Market

By Karen Kelsky | December 27, 2011

Today's post is a guest post from a reader who shall remain anonymous.  She shares her experiences with what she calls the "Unknown and Unknowable" aspects of the job search.  Her message is invaluable:  stay loose, flexible, and open to sudden … [Read more...] about The Unknown and Unknowable of the Job Market

Filed Under: How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Negotiating Offers, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, The Campus Visit Tagged With: Academic job market bloopers, Stories of the academic job search

How To Pack and Dress For Your Campus Visit (Inc. Cold-Weather Tips)

By Karen Kelsky | November 15, 2011

In response to pleas from clients with campus visit invitations, I am devoting the post today to a quick discussion of how to dress for campus visits , particularly in the cold weather. This post is for women (who present as women), since everyone … [Read more...] about How To Pack and Dress For Your Campus Visit (Inc. Cold-Weather Tips)

Filed Under: How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, The Campus Visit, What Not To Wear Tagged With: campus visit advice, handling the campus visit, how to act on campus visits, how to dress for campus visit, how to dress for the fly-out

How To Dress for an Interview as a Butch Dyke

By Karen Kelsky | November 7, 2011

[Updated Sept 2021] Today’s post is a Special Request post for Digger, who asks, “how is a butch dyke to dress for a conference or campus interview?”  She goes on, “I recently tried to girl-up my wardrobe, and it was pretty much a disaster … [Read more...] about How To Dress for an Interview as a Butch Dyke

Filed Under: How To Do Conferences, How to Interview, Intersectional Analyses, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, The Campus Visit, What Not To Wear, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

The Campus Visit, Part 1: Search Committee Interview

By Karen Kelsky | November 4, 2011

[This post is excerpted from the Professor's Guide to Taming the Academic Job Market, available at The Prof Shop.] I will address some specific questions to expect in the search committee interview below. Before that, however, I wish to emphasize … [Read more...] about The Campus Visit, Part 1: Search Committee Interview

Filed Under: How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, The Campus Visit Tagged With: campus visit interview questions, handling the campus visit, the search committee interview, what happens on a campus visit

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