SPRING SPECIALS
EXTENDED FOR PANDEMIC
*Jan-June 2020 Only*
SPRING 3-DOCUMENT PACKAGE
$430
Get your core job application documents edited this Spring at a special reduced rate of $430. I offer this special package to encourage folks to get help early for Fall 2020 (and to catch those late season Spring openings). Done separately, these three documents normally cost $540!
This package includes work on your Cover Letter, CV, and Teaching Statement or Research Statement.
Fine Print: Once you make the purchase, email Karen to set a start date on the calendar. You will submit one document at a time, beginning with your cover letter. Expect the entire process to take about 1 month.
$430 (reg. $540)
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CV ADVANCE STRATEGIZING SESSION
$150
**Jan-JUNE 2020 Only**
What you do in the next six months is critical for your competitiveness on next year’s market. In this short-term service, I will examine and evaluate your CV for any gaps, weaknesses or red flags, and help you create a plan to remedy them in time for the Fall 2020 job market. Also happy to engage on the question of quitting/post-ac transitions. Covers two email exchanges.
**Please note that after you purchase this service you must email me, Karen, at gettenure@gmail.com to set a date on the calendar for the work to begin. Please do this first, before sending me your CV! Note that this is not CV-editing; it’s career strategizing.
$150
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ONE ON ONE CAREER CONSULTING
$400
**Jan-JUNE 2020 Only**
I take any one-on-one advising and consulting clients from January to April only. During this time I am happy to provide advising/consulting on any quandaries related to the academic career, including publication plans, departmental politics, dealing with Imposter Syndrome or writers block, tenure anxieties, job market struggles, exit strategizing, or the decision to leave academia entirely. There are no wrong questions! You can get help in two ways: a 1 hour skype consult, or alternatively, a 5-email exchange consult. Both are $400 (tenured rate is $420).
I ask all career consulting clients to do at least one document edit with me first (either CV or CL) so that I have a holistic knowledge of your record before starting. The rationale for this is twofold: on the one hand, I get to know your record quickly, so I can advise you better. And on the other, clients tend to find the editing process illuminating in itself, and you will see many basic questions answered by the editing process (and get a finished doc out of it), allowing us to devote the 5 questions to more “advanced” issues. A job doc is $180, so this does represent an additional expense, and I’ll be happy to consider exceptions to this rule for financial or other reasons. Feel free to email me at gettenure@gmail.com with any questions about the consulting/advising process.
$400
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REGULAR RECURRING PRODUCTS
Find various kinds of academic job market help for immediate purchase below. These are products you can access immediately that do not include real-time individual editing or consulting by Dr. Karen or her team.
For *individualized* consulting services and full document review with Dr. Karen and the team, review the services and rates available on the Services and Rates page, and then please contact her directly at gettenure@gmail.com.
Webinar Recordings
These are downloadable recordings of all the webinars (including complete descriptions)
offered by Dr. Karen and her team. Click HERE to go the “Webinars” page and purchase.
Quick Document Reviews are quick-turnaround options for people who need results fast to meet a deadline. Click HERE to go the “Quick Reviews” page for complete descriptions and to purchase.
The Art of the Cover Letter is a membership-only access to posts, videos and worksheets to guide you through the conceptualization and writing of an academic cover letter. Click HERE to go the “Art of the Cover Letter” page for complete descriptions and link to purchase.
Teaching Portfolio Consultation
A complete teaching portfolio is necessary when job ads ask for evidence of effectiveness. We assist you in organizing and formatting your teaching to specific job descriptions. Note: this is not an editing service. Instead, we advise you on how to select the standard materials and present them in a polished, professional way. For example, we help you effectively summarize your numerical and narrative evaluations and provide a list of proposed courses that match your profile.
How to Contact a Prospective Ph.D. Advisor Guidance Package
A package of materials that walks you through the composition of an email of inquiry to a potential Ph.D. advisor, with instructions and examples drawn from STEM, social science, and humanities. Does NOT include live individual editing.
$24.99
Gift Certificates
You can purchase Gift Certificates in any amount from $50 up. My rates are listed on the rates page, but here are the basics in a nutshell: 1 hour of work with me (1 job document–ie, cover letter): $180; 2 hours of work with me (2 job documents–ie, cover letter and cv): $360; 3 hours of work with me (the basic full package of cover letter, cv, and teaching statement): $486 (reflects a 10% discount on total) 4 hours of work with me (the full package plus the research statement): $648 (also includes 10% discount) You are not limited to the amounts above; they are meant as guidelines to the cost of working with me. After your purchase you will receive a PDF download which serves as the Gift Certificate; please forward it to your recipient, who can then contact me to schedule the work.
Click here for Gift Certificates:
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I fully understand the cost for a prompt review of the cover letter, but for all of us struggling applicants on (or near) food stamps, couldn’t you release the package itself for free? I am sure we would benefit from that more than you would a few dollars. Also, it might encourage more of us to ask for your assistance…
and sorry, to be clear, I am referring to the cover letter package
James, you should know that I offer the Job Seeker Support Fund for any clients on food stamps, welfare, etc. You can read about it on the page devoted to it on the website.
James – TPII has helped my wife and I a TON in the past year – with just the “free” materials on line (which of course Karen had to develop).
She is a professional in this needed field in academia and deserves to be paid for her time and expertise.
Will The Professor’s Guides Taming the Academic Job Market and another grant writing useful for other scientific area such as chemistry? Thanks.
They’re pretty useful across the board, but my suggestion would be to purchase the webinar recordings instead–they cover more ground and with the lower prices now ($50, used to be $100) they’re not too different price-wise. And have good Q and A too.
Karen,
I have an application deadline coming up in about ten days. I have purchased a copy of your book and would like to get your CV strategizing session too. But I was wondering if I would receive your edits in time for this particular job…or if I should look at the Fall instead.
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The “buy now” button for US orders of the mug isn’t working 🙁 I need this in my life and hope it’s fixed soon!
it’s fixed!
Hi there,
I ordered a mug and got a receipt emailed from paypal but when paypal redirected me back to your site after payment I was taken to a 404 error page. How can I check to verify you received my order? Thank you – the mug looks great!
I got it!
I ordered a Nasty Woman mug on October 26 and haven’t received it yet. I got an email confirmation from PayPal, but no word on when/if the mug shipped. Do you know when it might show up? I hoped it would arrive in time for Election Day.
Fedex tracking says it was delivered 11/7.
Hi, i orderd a nasty woman mug on Nov 5. I wonder how i can tract my order and when I can get it. Let me know. Thanks.
is this the email you used to order? I need either your name or email to check.
yousula@gmail.com
plz check with this.
I want to order the mugs, but live outside the US. Do you ship snail mail or courier? Thanks
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Thanks for this link!
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Hi!
I tried to register for the Hacking the Academic Job Market in a Pandemic Webinar with the promotional code I received in email but the code wouldn’t work (says invalid). Any suggestions? Thank you!
Sorry, use this: WEBZONE10