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Your Second and Third Jobs

How to Hop From One Tenure Track Job to Another

By Karen Kelsky | May 14, 2021

This is a re-post of an older Chronicle Vitae piece that has been de-activated.  All the advice remains relevant.   Q: I’m applying for my second tenure-track job. What are things I need to be careful of? Karen: When you have a … [Read more...] about How to Hop From One Tenure Track Job to Another

Filed Under: Academic Job Search, Negotiating Offers, Your Second and Third Jobs

Offers and Counteroffers

By Karen Kelsky | May 14, 2021

This is a repost of an old Chronicle Vitae piece that has been de-activated.  All the advice remains relevant in 2021.   Question: I received a tenure-track offer that I’m unsure about taking. I went to my dean and asked if the university … [Read more...] about Offers and Counteroffers

Filed Under: Academic Job Search, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Negotiating Offers, Your Second and Third Jobs

“I Ran and Hid From My Computer” – Women and Negotiating Redux

By Karen Kelsky | February 21, 2020

Yet another woman client (this time a senior, tenured scholar) with a tenured offer from a famously wealthy and elite institution, was told by all of her mentors that she was "crazy" for wanting to negotiate the offer, and would risk "alienating … [Read more...] about “I Ran and Hid From My Computer” – Women and Negotiating Redux

Filed Under: Negotiating Offers, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia, Your Second and Third Jobs

Careering Toward Authenticity – #Postac Post by Karen Cardozo

By Karen Kelsky | September 4, 2017

by Karen Cardozo Here is a sentence I never thought I’d say: I was tenured and promoted (in April 2017, to Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts). Now, here is another I never … [Read more...] about Careering Toward Authenticity – #Postac Post by Karen Cardozo

Filed Under: Intersectional Analyses, Post-Ac Job Search, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia, Your Second and Third Jobs

How To Apply for Your Second Job

By Karen Kelsky | July 3, 2017

[Updated July 2017.] Today is a Special Request Post for Matt, who wishes to know the ins and outs of applying for a second tenure track job.   That is to say, how to apply for a job when you are already in a tenure track position but hope or dream … [Read more...] about How To Apply for Your Second Job

Filed Under: Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Tenure--How To Get It, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia, Your Second and Third Jobs Tagged With: applying for new tenure track job, applying for second tenure track job, applying for tenure track job

How (Not) to Negotiate a Tenure Track Salary

By Karen Kelsky | February 24, 2017

It's offer season, and negotiations are underway. I have written a lot about negotiating tenure track offers; here are some links: Part VII of my book, on Negotiating OK, Let's Talk About Negotiating Salary Will My Offer Be Rescinded If I … [Read more...] about How (Not) to Negotiate a Tenure Track Salary

Filed Under: Major Job Market Mistakes, Negotiating Offers, Ph.D. Poverty, Your Second and Third Jobs

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

Buy My Book!

By Karen Kelsky | April 10, 2015

Love the blog? Now get it in handy book form--only $11.40!  Available for pre-order now--comes out August 4! Buy it at all these places! It also makes a great gift for all those struggling grad students in your life! For bulk orders for use … [Read more...] about Buy My Book!

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Book Proposals and Contracts, Graduate Student Concerns, How To Build Your Tenure File, 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, International Perspectives, Intersectional Analyses, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Mental Health and Academia, Negotiating Offers, Ph.D. Poverty, Post-Ac Job Search, Postdoc Issues, Promote Yourself!, Publishing Issues, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Resumes & Postac Docs, Shame, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Teaching and Research Statements, Teaching Portfolios, Tenure--How To Get It, The Campus Visit, What Not To Wear, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Writing, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia, Your Second and Third Jobs

How to Apply for a Dean Position (A Guest Post in the form of an interview)

By Karen Kelsky | March 5, 2015

The writer of this post is dean at a public liberal-arts-and-science college in the Midwest. S/he has spent a career in public higher education at comprehensive and baccalaureate campuses in a number of instructional and administrative … [Read more...] about How to Apply for a Dean Position (A Guest Post in the form of an interview)

Filed Under: Academic Job Search, How to Interview, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, How To Write CVs, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Your Second and Third Jobs

The Job Offer Digest

By Karen Kelsky | February 27, 2015

Those of you who follow me on Facebook know that last week a little debate arose there about whether it was good to anonymously post all the job (and postdoc) offers received by my clients, or if that practice had the effect of making less successful … [Read more...] about The Job Offer Digest

Filed Under: Advising Advice, How to Interview, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Negotiating Offers, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Your Second and Third Jobs

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