Institutional Rate for groups: $400 (happy to discuss; please inquire at gettenure@gmail.com)
Converting Your Academic CV to a Resume
(Presented by TPIO Coach Adrienne Posner)
The content you’ve all been asking for! Star coach Adrienne Posner walks you through the theory and practice behind translating your academic experience to a resume for the non-ac job search. It’s a whole different mindset, and she shares the essential elements that nonprofit and corporate reviewers are looking for, plus the tricks to get past algorithms and digital tracking systems. You need this!
$40
A Quitter’s Guide to the Non-Academic Job Search
(Presented by TPIO Coach Adrienne Posner)
Are you thinking about quitting grad school, ditching adjuncting or fleeing from your tenure track job but feel paralyzed by not knowing how to proceed? Are you overwhelmed by thinking about what skills or experiences make you “marketable” outside the academy? Have you ever read a job description and felt totally confused about whether or not you are even qualified? In this webinar by star TPII coach Adrienne Posner, you’ll learn to: 1) find jobs using LinkedIn, Indeed & Google Jobs; 2) interpret job ads; 3) make resumes, cover letters, and LinkedIn profiles, and finally consider the value of a personal website. By the end you’ll have what it takes to find meaningful, sustainable work outside the academic cult.
$40
Deciphering the Non-Academic Job Ad
(Presented by TPII Coach Adrienne Posner)
You’ll learn to read non-academic job ads for what they are really trying to say, cutting through the business jargon and cryptic marketing language to understand: 1) if you are qualified; 2) what the job actually involves in the day-to-day; 3) how to apply. We’ll walk through specific, real-life job postings for roles that academics are actually qualified to do, and then we’ll look together at some sample job postings from the audience so that you can get your questions asked and answered. Leave this webinar with the confidence to find jobs to which you can apply, today!
$40
Going Post-Ac in a Pandemic: Moving on with a PhD Under Stress [New reduced pandemic rate: $35]
This workshop will show you how to prepare for a non-academic job,
even if you’re still in graduate school, newly updated for COVID19
conditions. We start with the newly emerging COVID19 job market
conditions, and the feelings of fear, grief and loss that accompany the
need to move on. Then, we’ll confront the incorrect belief held by many
Ph.D.s (especially in the arts and humanities) that you don’t have any
skills for non-academic jobs. I help you see the multitude of skills you
have, and how to identify and mobilize them for jobs outside the
academy. We’ll cover: Obstacles to imagining a non-academic
career; Expanding your career imagination, Identifying your translatable
skills, Tips for the non-academic cover letter and resume, Resources for the job seeker; The DIY career.
$35
Starting a Small Business in a Pandemic: The Other #Postac Option [NEWLY EXPANDED AND UPDATED 2 hour webinar; $100]
Dr. Karen explains the mental and logistical hurdles attendant upon
leaving the academy to start your own business. Discusses identifying a
niche, choosing a name, finding an audience, and using basic technology
for blogging, websites, and invoicing. Special attention to social
media marketing. Academics tend to be risk-averse–this webinar helps you
lower the barrier to striking out on your own.
$100
You’re Not Overqualified, You’re Misunderstood: Translating Academic Value for LinkedIn
(Presented by Dr. Eric James Stephens)
Are you tired of hearing you’re “overqualified”? Do you get frustrated when folks in industry just don’t get the value you can bring? It’s not just a matter of experience. It’s a matter of how you talk about it. It’s a matter of translation. In this webinar, Dr. Eric James Stephens shares his own experience wading through depression and frustration after getting laid-off from his university teaching job due to COVID and facing an unfamiliar industry job market. He’ll also share actionable steps for engaging on LinkedIn, his motivation behind the #HireHigherEd initiative, and how it landed him a new career as a business data analyst. Dr. Stephens is Founder and Organizer of the #HireHigherEd Conference.
Reduced rate: $25
LinkedIn Without Fear: An Intro for Academics
(Presented by Sonia Michaels)
Academics have a love-hate relationship with LinkedIn–we know we need it, but we don’t have to like it! In this webinar, I will help you get past the overwhelm, understand the essentials of setting up and using LinkedIn effectively, and make the most of the opportunities that it can offer. All with an eye to the challenges of presenting achievements from academia to potential non-academic jobs and employers. Sonia Michaels is a Senior Lecturer at DigiPen Institute of Technology.
Reduced rate: $25
Canva for LinkedIn and Beyond
(Presented by Dr. Karla Mastracchio)
Do you wonder how to create a visually consistent brand for your post-academic resume and LinkedIn page, but don’t know where to start? In this webinar, Karla Mastracchio, PhD, shows you how to create materials using Canva. You’ll leave with basics of Canva design and a LinkedIn ready resume style. Dr. Mastracchio is the Professor of Informational Advantage and Strategic Influence at Joint Special Operations University and an award-winning communication strategist.
Reduced Rate: $25
Maximizing Your Professional Presence with LinkedIn Publishing
(Presented by Randi Sain)
This webinar shows you how to leverage academic writing skills for LinkedIn publishing. By publishing content on LinkedIn, and using hashtags well, you can open doors, create sharable resources, and increase your network. Bring questions and insights as we explore how to maximize your professional presence! Randi Howell works full-time to support more than 800 faculty members transition from tech-terrified to tech-savvy. Howell serves as Vice President of Safe’N’Clear, Inc, an ADA-accessible surgical facemask company that promotes clear and inclusive communication. In her role at Safe’N’Clear, Howell works with the CEO and Marketing team to publish digital content across social media platforms, including LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Reduced Rate: $25
Hacking the Academic Job Market…In a Pandemic
Compendium of the basic advice every tenure track job seeker needs to know, from the ethos of the search committee to how to prep for an interview – all updated for the crisis conditions of COVID19. Addresses what makes a competitive record, effective job documents, effective interviewing, and more, while coping with the turmoil on campuses and the collapse of academic hiring in the pandemic.
$50
Talking Mental Health in the Academy, in a Pandemic
Depression, anxiety, stress, overwhelm, trauma, burnout…. these are so common in academia as to be almost the norm. A 2018 study found that 39% of grad students scored in the moderate-to-severe depression range, as compared to 6% of the general population. And that was before the pandemic.
In this brand new webinar, we talk mental health, with particular attention to the specific stressors of grad school, the job search, adjuncting, and the tenure track, and contextualized by the COVID19 pandemic. This webinar aims to provide tools to openly discuss mental health challenges, identify symptoms and causes, and provide ideas for support. Please note: I am not a mental health professional and this content is for general informational purposes, not diagnosis or treatment.
$35
Managing Your First Year on the Tenure Track…In a Pandemic
For those who scored the tenure track job–this tells you what to
expect. As a former department head who mentored a number of faculty
through successful tenure cases, Dr. Karen explains exactly how to lay
the foundation for success in your new job, and avoid common errors.
Focus on time management, departmental relations, and work life balance.
Newly updated to reflect the profound economic, social, and political
conditions of COVID19 and the Movement for Black Lives.
$50
Productivity Kickstart and Strategy Session
Academic productivity coach Kellee Weinhold gives a crash course in kickstarting your summer (or your semester) writing and meeting your goals. In this 90-minute session you will learn *How to identify your real and imagined roadblocks to productivity; *Strategies for overcoming those barriers, using organizational strategies and accountability tools for daily productivity; *Effective boundary setting (just say no!); *How to create a personalized goal achievement plan, breaking down project components and timelines with daily and weekly goals.
$50
The (Online) Campus Visit – Updated for COVID
Walks you through the elements of the ONLINE Campus Visit/Fly-Out, newly updated for COVID realities. Explains all the major elements such as planning and prep, meetings with faculty, the Dean, the Chair, and students, the job talk, the teaching demo, etc. Provides advice and scripts for dealing successfully with all parts.
$50
How To Write an Academic Job Application, Part I–Cover Letter and CV
Line by line, paragraph by paragraph guidance on how to construct the two most essential elements of the tenure track job application–the cover letter and CV. Shows the most common mistakes (including hyper-emotionalism and pandering), and how to correct them to showcase the facts and evidence of your record. Focus on tailoring for specific jobs and institutions.
$50
How To Write an Academic Job Application, Part II–Teaching Statement, Research Statement, and Diversity Statement (Updated for 2022)
Newly updated for 2022 and the increase in requests for diversity statements, this webinar walks you thought conceptualizing, constructing and refining your TS and RS and DS, with special attention to the purpose and common misunderstandings around each of these documents, and how they optimally complement the cover letter and CV. Shows you how to construct concrete and memorable documents without falling into trite, hackneyed, saccharine prose.
$50
Interview Intervention Webinar
Webinar version of the live skype Interview Intervention. I walk you through the most common errors made by candidates in interviews, and how to correct them. Includes scripts for successful interviewing preparation.
$50
The (Online) Job Talk Webinar
Delves deeply into the challenges of constructing an effective job talk–starts by explaining the point of the job talk, its role in the campus visit and overall selection process, and what it’s meant to demonstrate in terms of your scholarly project and collegiality. Includes a template of talk organization, and also addresses how to manage the Q and A after the talk. Updated for COVID.
$50
Negotiating Your Academic Job
Walks you through the elements of a typical academic job negotiation, explaining what can and can’t be expected based on size, type and rank of institution. Addresses the question of the rescinded offer. Shows common misunderstandings and pitfalls, and provides scripts for successful negotiations. Focuses on tenure track offers but includes discussion of NTT, VAP, postdoc and other positions as well. Updated for COVID.
$50 [provides $100 off live Negotiating Assistance]
How To Write a Winning Grant
Walks you through the famous Dr. Karen’s Foolproof Grant Template–a template for grant-writing based on the Hero-Narrative of Grant-writing (Here is a critical topic. There is an alarming gap in the literature about it, but never fear– I am here to save the day! Here’s how). Astoundingly successful, if used correctly.
$50
What Grad Students Need To Hear
Targeted for people still in graduate school, this lays out the ways to prepare yourself for the job market no matter how early in your grad school career. Addresses Ph.D. debt, and minimizing the financial impact of graduate school. Shows you how to prioritize among competing demands (research, teaching, service, writing for publication) and create a competitive record without missteps or wasted time or effort. Targets typical grad student errors misunderstandings about the academic career and how best to prepare for it. This webinar is meant to counteract the bad advising common in so many graduate departments, which mystifies and obfuscates both the financial risks of the Ph.D., and the steps necessary to create a competitive tenure track job market record from early on.
$35
Hacking the Academic Presentation
Podium skills are essential for all parts of the academic life–the
job talk of course, but also the conference presentation, teaching, and
the kind of public speaking to broad audiences that we need to
prioritize in this time of assault on higher ed. This webinar walks you
through the ins and outs of a good talk, including organization,
delivery, technology, body language, and dealing with Q and A. It also
addresses the fear, anxiety, and Imposter Syndrome that so often hinder
our public speaking, and shows you how to overcome them.
$50
Managing Your Career Once You Have a Job
Shows you how to track out a research and teaching trajectory across the 5 years of the probationary period, with an emphasis on the humanities and social science fields. Focuses on creating an effective Five-Year-Plan, and working backward from your tenure year to plot out specific publishing goals. Also looks at departmental politics, managing colleagues, handling the demands of teaching, and calculating appropriate levels of service. Addresses children and work-life balance. Based on Dr. Karen’s years as a department head mentoring a number of faculty through successful tenure cases.
$50
Knowing Your Own Value in the Academy: Self-Advocacy, Time Management and Saying No
Overwork without appropriate compensation (ie, exploitation) is the normative expectation of the academy, and becomes ever more so as standards escalate while budgets collapse. This brand new webinar shows you how to identify overwork and exploitation, how to evaluate the stakes of given tasks and manage the time you allot to each, and how to say no to excessive demands. We also discuss how to accurately value your own time, contributions and labor, to set the stage for effective self-advocacy throughout your career, whether it be asking for a raise, describing your work without self-deprecation, dealing assertively with advisors, PI’s, heads, editors and collaborators, negotiating offers, etc.
$50
How To Publish Your Academic Book
Breaks down the steps of publishing the scholarly monograph, including evaluating presses, pitching projects to editors, writing and submitting proposals, and plotting a timeline for writing in time for third year review and tenure.
$50
Women and the Academic Career: What Works, What Doesn’t
This workshop examines the obstacles for women in the academic career, with an eye to the tension between structural systems of bias and exclusion, and individual habits of self-sabotage and Imposter Syndrome that result from years of gendered socialization. Special attention paid to the challenges of sexual harassment, managing children and career, avoiding excessive service, effective self-advocacy, and struggles for authority in the classroom and department. We view these through an intersectional lens that considers how race, nationality, sexuality, and class change gendered dynamics in academic settings. The workshop includes role play of self-advocacy scenarios, including refusing excessive service requests and seeking an equity raise. By the end, participants will have information and tools to bring to their careers, job searches, and negotiations.
$50
How to Apply for a Postdoc in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Explains the core principle of the postdoc application: showing how you serve the postdoc, not how the postdoc serves you. Discusses the major elements of the typical postdoc application: the proposal, cover letter, statement of fit, and proposed course. Includes examples of successful postdoc application writing, and as always, highlights the most common pitfalls and errors besetting the inexperienced postdoc applicant.
$50
For Grad Students Only: Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job (Special Price: $30)
Strategizing for the academic and non-academic job markets while in graduate school. It is open to students at any stage in their program, including those just starting this fall. Covers the financial risks of a Ph.D. and job placement rate of your graduate program, setting a 5-year timeline to completion, building your CV; also non-academic job prep, including finding mentors, networking, identifying and developing your skills. Throughout we’ll address ways that you can “stop acting like a grad student” and take charge of your program and your career.
$30
Targeting Your Skills For a Post-Ac Career (by Margy Horton) – Donation based; Pay whatever you can
Confronts the incorrect belief held by many Ph.D.s (especially in the humanities) that they don’t have any skills for non-academic jobs. In fact, you have loads of skills, you just haven’t learned to identify and name them as such, and learn to mobilize them for jobs outside the academy. Dr. Margy Horton gives you a list of 100 possible skills to consider, and walks you through a set of techniques to rewrite your record to be legible for non-academic jobs.
Pay what you can
Hacking the Grad School Application
This webinar with Dr. Nica Davidov, who is a current Director of Graduate Studies in the social sciences at a graduate institutions, will walk you through the process of deciding to go to graduate school, choosing programs, completing the application, and making a decision about enrollment and funding. It goes into specifics about how to write effective application documents, especially your Statement of Purpose and CV.
$25