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Job Search Help In These Times

By Karen Kelsky | August 19, 2020

With the pandemic, we are doing all we can to provide help for anxious job seekers. Since not everyone follows us on social media or the newsletter, you may not know all of what we are up to. So here's a quick summary! (And: you should subscribe to … [Read more...] about Job Search Help In These Times

Filed Under: Strategizing Your Success in Academia

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Thank you for purchasing our Buy-1-Get-1-Half-Off Document Edit Special FOR NEW CLIENTS ONLY Ends August 31 Please email us at gettenure@gmail.com to share the receipt and arrange your start date for editing. Remember you cannot start editing … [Read more...] about NEW CLIENT Buy-1-Get-1-Half-Off August Special

How to Strategize for the 2020 Job Market

By Karen Kelsky | January 3, 2020

Happy New Year, everyone! It's the start of 2020. And, it's also the midpoint of the academic year. That means.... a lot of people are coming back from winter break facing the stark realization that they didn't get shortlisted for the jobs they … [Read more...] about How to Strategize for the 2020 Job Market

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Use the Spring Well

By Karen Kelsky | January 25, 2019

For those who know you'll be on the job market in Fall 2019, I am offering two services over the next two months that may be of help. These are limited time services, and only available between now and end of March; once all the available slots … [Read more...] about Use the Spring Well

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A Joyful Job Market Digest

By Karen Kelsky | January 7, 2019

Normally I put the Job Market Digest on Facebook only, but my wonderful new Executive Assistant, Rain (please say hello to her!) took the trouble of gathering together the outcome emails that had been gathering in the inbox the past few months. So I … [Read more...] about A Joyful Job Market Digest

Filed Under: Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Writing

Banish These Words: Sexism and Binarism Edition – Guest Post by Maggie Levantovskaya

By Karen Kelsky | September 21, 2018

By Dr. Maggie Levantovskaya Maggie Levantovskaya is one of our TPII editors, and a writer and adjunct professor based in the Bay Area. Let’s talk about sexist language in job application materials. I read countless cover letters, teaching … [Read more...] about Banish These Words: Sexism and Binarism Edition – Guest Post by Maggie Levantovskaya

Filed Under: Advising Advice, International Perspectives, Intersectional Analyses, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Marginalized Voices, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Writing

The UK Job Market, Part III: “I Beg Your Pardon, But May I Have This Job?” (The Winning Cover Letter)

By Karen Kelsky | November 3, 2017

By Alice Kelly, Ph.D. Alice Kelly is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. She completed her PhD in English at Cambridge in 2014, with a year as a Fox Fellow at Yale, and before that she studied at Sussex, Reed College … [Read more...] about The UK Job Market, Part III: “I Beg Your Pardon, But May I Have This Job?” (The Winning Cover Letter)

Filed Under: How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, International Perspectives, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

How To Negotiate Your Tenure Track Offer

By Karen Kelsky | February 11, 2016

Negotiating season is in full swing!  I'm working with a whole crew of clients on negotiating their offers, and I've got plenty of room in my schedule for more. Please consider getting in touch; clients routinely increase their offers by … [Read more...] about How To Negotiate Your Tenure Track Offer

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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

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