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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

Be Professorial

By Karen Kelsky | February 21, 2012

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

Filed Under: How To Do Conferences, How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Pregnant on Your Campus Visit–A Crowdsource Project

By Karen Kelsky | February 16, 2012

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

Filed Under: How to Interview, Intersectional Analyses, Major Job Market Mistakes, The Campus Visit, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia Tagged With: pregnant academic job search, Pregnant Campus Visit

Can I Ask For Feedback After a Rejection?

By Karen Kelsky | February 14, 2012

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?

Filed Under: Strategizing Your Success in Academia

How Would You Mentor Graduate Students? Another #Facepalm Fail

By Karen Kelsky | February 8, 2012

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

Filed Under: How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Teaching and Research Statements, Teaching Portfolios Tagged With: graduate student mentor, mentoring graduate students

The Ins and Outs of a Professional Academic Website (Guest Post)

By Karen Kelsky | February 7, 2012

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)

Filed Under: Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Two Societies–Separate and Unequal: Thoughts on the TT-NTT Divide

By Karen Kelsky | February 4, 2012

On Tuesday I posted the first of two posts on the New Faculty Majority Summit on Contingent Labor in Higher Education that took place in Washington,DC this past weekend.  That post was, as I said then, in a descriptive vein.  I promised a second one … [Read more...] about Two Societies–Separate and Unequal: Thoughts on the TT-NTT Divide

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia Tagged With: #newfac12, New Faculty Majority, Summit on Contingent Labor in Higher Education

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