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How To Make Small Talk on Your Campus Visit

By Karen Kelsky | March 29, 2012

Today's post is a Special Request post for several clients who are fretting about what to “chat” with faculty about during the informal parts of a campus visit. “What in the world do I talk about??” they inquire. It's always hard to know how to make … [Read more...] about How To Make Small Talk on Your Campus Visit

Filed Under: How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia Tagged With: dealing with campus visit, how to act on the fly-out, the fly-out, what happens on a campus visit

Graduate School Is Not Your Job.

By Karen Kelsky | March 27, 2012

For today's post I direct you to my latest Chronicle column, entitled “Graduate School Is A Means To A Job.” It is an expanded edition of the post I published about two weeks ago, “Dr. Karen's Rules of Graduate School.” As I said in that post, too … [Read more...] about Graduate School Is Not Your Job.

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Graduate Student Concerns, Promote Yourself!, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia Tagged With: Don't go to graduate school, finding an academic job, how to do graduate school, Is graduate school a good choice, the academic job market

Don’t Go To Graduate School (An Inadvertent Guest Post)

By Karen Kelsky | March 22, 2012

This post shares an email sent to me last week by a good friend, an NTT English professor  with a secure and well-compensated ongoing position in English at an R1 institution.  This email is a follow-up to an email she had forwarded the week before, … [Read more...] about Don’t Go To Graduate School (An Inadvertent Guest Post)

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Alt-University Critique, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Graduate Student Concerns, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia Tagged With: Don't go to graduate school

The “Be Yourself” Myth: Performing the Academic Self on the Job Market

By Karen Kelsky | March 20, 2012

Today's post is a reprint of my recent column in Inside Higher Ed, called "The 'Be Yourself' Myth."   As some of you know, I write an occasional column for IHE under the theme "Academic Mythbusters."  I take a prevailing delusion that afflicts … [Read more...] about The “Be Yourself” Myth: Performing the Academic Self on the Job Market

Filed Under: Graduate Student Concerns, How to Interview, Major Job Market Mistakes, Promote Yourself!, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia Tagged With: Acting like a professor, Don't Be Yourself

Academic Capitalism and the Shame of It All

By Karen Kelsky | March 15, 2012

The Professor and Family are skiing this week in the Cascades (Hoodoo for anyone interested). In place of my usual Thursday post I am posting a link to one of the best pieces I've read in a long time about the crisis and the shame of the academic job … [Read more...] about Academic Capitalism and the Shame of It All

Filed Under: Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Many Joys of the Videoconference Interview (A Guest Post)

By Karen Kelsky | March 13, 2012

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)

Filed Under: How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Strategizing Your Success in Academia Tagged With: dealing with videoconferencing, the skype interview, video interview

How Not To Invite The Professor To Your Campus

By Karen Kelsky | March 8, 2012

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

Filed Under: Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Graduate Student Concerns, Strategizing Your Success in Academia Tagged With: professionalization workshop

What Should Graduate Students Ask Candidates? A Special Request Post

By Karen Kelsky | March 6, 2012

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

Filed Under: Graduate Student Concerns, How to Interview, Promote Yourself! Tagged With: graduate student questions for candidates, graduate student representatives on search committees

What To Do Now in Grad School (Special Request Post)

By Karen Kelsky | March 2, 2012

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)

Filed Under: Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Graduate Student Concerns, How To Choose and Manage Recommenders, How To Do Conferences, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Promote Yourself!, Strategizing Your Success in Academia Tagged With: Grad school strategies for success, Graduate student rules, Graduate student strategies

Dr. Karen’s (Partial) Rules of the Job Talk

By Karen Kelsky | February 23, 2012

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

Filed Under: How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, The Campus Visit Tagged With: how to do a job talk, The job talk, what is a job talk

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