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52 Career Actions: Week 18: Prepare a Writing Sample Portfolio
Hi everyone, and welcome back to the 52 Career Actions series. I hope you had a good summer! I took time off to write the bulk of my new book, The Professor Is Out: The Essential Guide to Leaving...
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52 Career Actions: Week 15: Write a tailored cover letter for a dream position.
I’m doing a new thing from this week! I’m adding in a regular post about ACADEMIC career actions. I’m doing this because it’s June and folks are looking ahead to their Fall academic job search, which...
View ArticleTranslating for Academia, or, What Does Editing a Job Talk Look Like?
At TPII, we edit ALL academic documents. We are most famous for CVs and cover letters, but we do all the regular application documents (including not just the Research and Teaching Statements, but also...
View ArticleWhat Is Unmarked Is the Norm – Some Advanced Interview Advice
I was doing an Interview Intervention today with a senior scholar prepping for a Chair interview at an R1 department. I asked a question that is common in Chair/Head interviews, and in this case was...
View ArticleShoot Your Shot: Five Ways to Stay Smart in a Brutal Academic Job Market
Welcome to the most brutally honest academic job market conversation you’ll hear this season. This is a recap of our “Shoot Your Shot” webinar — part of our ongoing support series for scholars...
View ArticleThe Curse of the Interdisciplinary PhD Redux
How to strategically prepare for the job market if your PhD is from an interdisciplinary program Answering the reader question: “I always hear that departments want interdisciplinary scholars, but I...
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But I Ticked All the Boxes! Understanding How Job Searches Work
As research for my Professor Is In book update (due out in 2026!), I have been perusing academic Reddit. No, before you freak out, it’s actually mostly a great, and very positive place for advice,...
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We Do Not “Skim”
I just wrote something to a postdoc client that I want to share because I think it clarifies what The Professor Is In does, and how we do it. And also what we don’t do. People who have never worked...
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Can AI Write an Academic Cover Letter? Part 1 of an Experiment
Can AI Write an Academic Cover Letter?Short answer: no.Years back I wrote:“Anyone can write a cover letter fast, over a weekend. A BAD cover letter, that is.But to write a good one takes weeks, even...
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#Dispatches From the Front, What Candidates Are Doing Wrong, Part II of III:...
In our new Dispatches series, we crowdsource responses to questions we see about the academic job market and career. Last week we put out the question: “Search committee members–what mistakes do you...
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#Dispatches From the Front: What Candidates Are Doing Wrong, Part I of III:...
In our new Dispatches series, we crowdsource responses to questions we see about the academic job market and career. Last week we put out the question: “Search committee members–what mistakes do you...
View ArticleLeveling the Academic Playing Field: Our Mission
I periodically publish a Careers Digest on Facebook, and here is the one for August 2022. We’ll start a whole new one for the ’22-23 academic year from this point on. Our individual goal is to help...
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Paying The Price: The Costs of Academia for First-Gen BIPOC Scholars
By Cecilia Caballero. Bio: Based in LA, Cecilia Caballero is a single mother, creative nonfiction writer, poet, teaching artist, and lecturer of Ethnic Studies. As a teaching artist, Cecilia...
View ArticleNihilism Was Inevitable
A genre of tweet has been gaining steam the last couple weeks, about the complete meaninglessness of academic job application documents or processes. It’s all a crap shoot, argues this line of thought....
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The Zoom Teaching Demo: Eight Guideposts
By Katherine Dugan, Ph.D. Professor Katherine (Kate) Dugan is our Professor Is In staff specialist on teaching demos. You can work with her individually on all aspects of your teaching demo, from...
View ArticleWhen I Say to Memorize, What Do I Mean?
Today I clarify the advice that is floating out there in older webinars and blog posts, to “memorize” your interview answers. Kel told me she’s seeing people take that way too literally. In this video...
View ArticleHow to Maximize a Visiting Position – WOC Guest Post
I am delighted to offer another guest post in my series of contributed posts by black women and other women of color. These go up on Wednesday. PLEASE submit a post or an idea for a post for...
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Pearls of Wisdom–The Blog
Need help with your academic career? We can help. Drop us a line Love the blog? Then get the book. It also makes a great gift for all the struggling grad students in your life. (For bulk orders for...
View ArticleBreaking Down the Fit Question
Today is another breakdown of a point of continued confusion among our Interview clients: the dreaded FIT question. Once again, I will walk you through a post that we assign for Interview Intervention...
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#Dispatches From the Front, What Candidates Are Doing Wrong, Part III of III:...
In our new Dispatches series, we crowdsource responses to questions we see about the academic job market and career. Last week we put out the question: “Search committee members–what mistakes do you...
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