This guest post is by a client who is a 2012 Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literature. She wrote last week to tell me of her success in scoring a top-ranked multi-year fellowship. In the email she alluded to a catastrophic skype interview. … [Read more...] about Many Joys of the Videoconference Interview (A Guest Post)
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How Not To Invite The Professor To Your Campus
This past week a group of graduate students in one department at the University of Oregon approached their Chair and requested that I be invited by the department to give an intensive workshop on professionalization and the job market. The Chair, a … [Read more...] about How Not To Invite The Professor To Your Campus
What Should Graduate Students Ask Candidates? A Special Request Post
Continuing on my theme of speaking directly to current graduate students, today's post is a Special Request post for a graduate student reader who contacted me to ask what kinds of questions she and her peers should be asking the job candidates … [Read more...] about What Should Graduate Students Ask Candidates? A Special Request Post
What To Do Now in Grad School (Special Request Post)
Apologies for missing Tuesday's post and then delaying on Thursday's post. I had a family health crisis (thankfully, fully resolved) that kept me away from the computer this week. Today's post is a Special Request post for K, who asks, what can a … [Read more...] about What To Do Now in Grad School (Special Request Post)
Dr. Karen’s (Partial) Rules of the Job Talk
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
Be Professorial
If you had asked me, prior to my opening of The Professor Is In, what I imagined would be the biggest communicative challenge of young job candidates, I would have said, “being excessively pompous and pretentious.” And I would have been … [Read more...] about Be Professorial
Pregnant on Your Campus Visit–A Crowdsource Project
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
Can I Ask For Feedback After a Rejection?
Yes. Yes you can ask for feedback after a rejection. While I don’t recommend you do this indiscriminately to all jobs to which you applied, if you were invited to a campus visit, then yes, it is in my opinion appropriate to respond to a rejection … [Read more...] about Can I Ask For Feedback After a Rejection?
How Would You Mentor Graduate Students? Another #Facepalm Fail
Today I was doing an interview bootcamp and came upon yet another #Facepalm Fail of the academic interview. The #Facepalm Fail is: “How would you mentor graduate students?” Actually, this might not rise to the level of a full-size #Facepalm Fail, … [Read more...] about How Would You Mentor Graduate Students? Another #Facepalm Fail
The Ins and Outs of a Professional Academic Website (Guest Post)
Today's post comes to us from Roger Whitson of the Digital Scholarship Commons (DiSC) at Emory University. Roger kindly stepped forward when I asked for a guest post on the often asked questions: Should I have a professional academic website? … [Read more...] about The Ins and Outs of a Professional Academic Website (Guest Post)