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Job Market PTSD

By Karen Kelsky | August 18, 2011

(Thursday Post Category:  Here's How You Get Tenure) Today's post is another Special Request post, this time coming from Kate, who wrote an eloquent email asking for advice on how to cope with what I will call “Job Market PTSD.” By Job Market PTSD … [Read more...] about Job Market PTSD

Filed Under: Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Mental Health and Academia, Negotiating Offers, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia Tagged With: academic job market help, dealing with job market trauma, how to survive the academic job market

How Not to F**k Up Your Conference Interview

By Karen Kelsky | August 15, 2011

(Monday Post Category:  Getting You Into and Out of Graduate School) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [Today's post is an excerpt from "Taming The Academic Job Market: The Professor's Guide."  The Guide is on sale in The … [Read more...] about How Not to F**k Up Your Conference Interview

Filed Under: How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia Tagged With: how to prepare for the conference interview, how to rock the conference interview, preparing for your conference interview, the conference interview, what should I do for a conference interview

Thoughts On Throwing In the Towel

By Karen Kelsky | August 12, 2011

Today's promised post is another Special Request post, at the behest of a number of readers, about knowing when to “throw in the towel,” or, in the words of one requester, “knowing when to fold 'em,” on an academic career. I am totally unqualified … [Read more...] about Thoughts On Throwing In the Towel

Filed Under: Alt-University Critique, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia Tagged With: giving up on an academic career, should I give up on an academic job?, the academic job market, the tenure track job market, when to quit the academic job market, when to quit trying for a tenure track job

What Not to Wear, Assistant Professor Edition: Fashion for the Academic Set

By Karen Kelsky | July 28, 2011

(Thursday Post Category--Here's How You Get Tenure) Egged on by the redoubtable Martina of TheLifeAcademic, I have agreed to do a series of posts on What Not To Wear (Campus Edition).  She is on a mission to de-depress academic fashion, and this is … [Read more...] about What Not to Wear, Assistant Professor Edition: Fashion for the Academic Set

Filed Under: How To Do Conferences, How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Tenure--How To Get It, What Not To Wear, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia Tagged With: fashion advice for new faculty, fashion advice for new professor, fashion for assistant professor, how should I dress for work, what do I wear to teach

Getting Schooled for My Sexism

By Karen Kelsky | July 15, 2011

(Friday Post Category: Yes, You Can: Women in the Academy) When I was a brand new assistant professor, the chair of my department put me in charge of the department's speaker series. This was actually a good thing.  Being in charge of … [Read more...] about Getting Schooled for My Sexism

Filed Under: Intersectional Analyses, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia Tagged With: female faculty advice, female professor advice, internalized sexism, sexism in the university, women and assertiveness, women and tenure, women professional success, women succeeding in graduate school, women workplace help, women's careers

What is Assertiveness, for Women?

By Karen Kelsky | July 8, 2011

(Friday Post Category: Yes, You Can: Women in Academia) I get so frustrated when I see the female students and colleagues I work with sabotage themselves and undermine their own authority and effectiveness because of an inability to be assertive. … [Read more...] about What is Assertiveness, for Women?

Filed Under: Yes, You Can: Women in Academia Tagged With: assertiveness training exercise, body language of women, coaching women success, definition of assertiveness, female self assertiveness, graduate school aid, playing with hair body language, submissive female body language, teaching women to be self confident, top 5 mistakes for women, what is body language, women and tenure, women professional success, women succeeding in graduate school, women workplace body language, women workplace help

Hooray for Elite White Men! External Reviewers for Tenure

By Karen Kelsky | July 7, 2011

(Thursday Post Category: How to Get Tenure) Today let's talk about your external reviewers for tenure. First, since this blog is new, my credentials. In my 15 years as a faculty member at two major research institutions, I worked on 6 tenure cases. … [Read more...] about Hooray for Elite White Men! External Reviewers for Tenure

Filed Under: How To Build Your Tenure File, How To Choose and Manage Recommenders, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia Tagged With: gender and tenure, getting help with tenure, how to choose external reviewers for tenure, how to get tenure, tenure is sexist, what are external review letters in tenure?, what is a strong tenure case?, what is an external reviewer?, women and tenure

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