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Ep. 3:10 We Don’t Go Back, We Go Forward – Interview with Dr. Samira Rajabi

By Karen Kelsky | November 22, 2021

Dr. Samira Rajabi, Assistant Professor of Media Studies at U of Colorado Boulder,  joins us for a discussion of navigating ambiguous grief and trauma in the pandemic academy and the rest of life. Drawing from her research for her new book, All My … [Read more...] about Ep. 3:10 We Don’t Go Back, We Go Forward – Interview with Dr. Samira Rajabi

Tagged With: academic community, academic job market help, academic mental health, grief, leaving the academy, social media

Ep 3:9 The Key to Interviews and Grants

By Karen Kelsky | November 9, 2021

We are deep in interview and grant season and so this episode we devote to the unseen but critical aspect of your candidacy: your ability to quickly and factually articulate yourself as a scholar and expert: what you do, how you do it, with whom … [Read more...] about Ep 3:9 The Key to Interviews and Grants

Tagged With: academic job market help, campus visit interview questions, grant writing strategies, grantwriting, how to prepare for the conference interview, how to write a grant proposal, the conference interview

Ep 2:34: How to Get Unstuck

By Karen Kelsky | April 12, 2021

If you've been wondering how to bring some semblance of productivity back to your life, this episode is for you. Karen and Kel introduce Kel's Unstuck: The Art of Productivity, a 12-module program that combines daily emails, coaching videos, … [Read more...] about Ep 2:34: How to Get Unstuck

Tagged With: academic job market help, amwriting, finishing the dissertation, pomodoro, productivity

Ep. 2:33: Selling Yourself

By Karen Kelsky | April 6, 2021

Self-promotion is a dirty word for academics but it shouldn't be. People won't invite you to be part of their scholarly community if they don't know who they are. And if you don't curate your digital profile then Google will do it for you--and you … [Read more...] about Ep. 2:33: Selling Yourself

Tagged With: academic job market help, building your brand, digital identity, going postac, self-promotion, social media, the academic job market

Ep 2:31 Burnout v. Passion

By Karen Kelsky | March 25, 2021

Burnout is the story of the 20-21 academic year. Honestly, who isn't burned out?  If burnout is a lack of desire to do what you normally want to do, then how should we best think about it, and deal with it? Kel discusses an article by Brad Stulberg … [Read more...] about Ep 2:31 Burnout v. Passion

Tagged With: academic job market help, burnout, covid, leaving academia

Ep. 2:29 Coping with Disappointment, Part I

By Karen Kelsky | March 11, 2021

This episode, recorded prior to the pandemic, delves into coping with the inevitable disappointments of the academic life, whether it's the job, or the grant, or the publication... or the whole career that just didn't pan out. The first of a two-part … [Read more...] about Ep. 2:29 Coping with Disappointment, Part I

Tagged With: academic job market help, going postac, leaving academia

Ep. 2:24 Not One of Us: The Gatekeepers of Academe

By Karen Kelsky | February 2, 2021

  Gatekeeping is endemic in the academy, and in some ways necessary as part of the evaluation process, but it doesn't have to be as cruel, racist, and inflexible as it has been. Karen and Kel start with the job search process, both … [Read more...] about Ep. 2:24 Not One of Us: The Gatekeepers of Academe

Tagged With: academic gatekeeping, academic job market help, academic racism, reviewer 2

Why Your Job Cover Letter Sucks (and what you can do to fix it)

By Karen Kelsky | August 26, 2016

An expanded and updated version of this post can now be found in Chapter  22 of my new book, The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide to Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job. I am keeping a shortened version here, but for the complete discussion … [Read more...] about Why Your Job Cover Letter Sucks (and what you can do to fix it)

Filed Under: Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia Tagged With: academic job cover letter, academic job market help, academic job search help, applying for academic jobs, applying for professor job, applying for university job, getting a tenure track job, getting faculty job, higher education job, how to fix your cover letter, how to get a professor job, how to get a tenure track job, how to write a job cover letter, tenure track job cover letter, the academic job search, what do search committees look for, why can't I get a tenure track job

The Six Ways You’re Acting Like a Grad Student (And how that’s killing you on the job market)

By Karen Kelsky | May 10, 2013

For the next few months I will be posting the "best of the best" Professor is in blog posts on the job market, for the benefit of all those girding their loins for the 2013-2014 … [Read more...] about The Six Ways You’re Acting Like a Grad Student (And how that’s killing you on the job market)

Filed Under: How To Do Conferences, How to Interview, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Tenure--How To Get It, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia Tagged With: academic job market help, assertiveness training exercise, body language of women, getting a tenure track job, How to deal with professors, How to shake hands, women professional success, women succeeding in graduate school

Job Market PTSD

By Karen Kelsky | August 18, 2011

(Thursday Post Category:  Here's How You Get Tenure) Today's post is another Special Request post, this time coming from Kate, who wrote an eloquent email asking for advice on how to cope with what I will call “Job Market PTSD.” By Job Market PTSD … [Read more...] about Job Market PTSD

Filed Under: Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Mental Health and Academia, Negotiating Offers, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia Tagged With: academic job market help, dealing with job market trauma, how to survive the academic job market

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