During the last two years, the academy has seen a significant exodus of faculty and staff who are moving not just to different institutions, but out of the academy altogether, driven by burnout, disillusionment and demoralization. In fact, a recent …
Grad students must articulate how their skills and experiences relate to their career goals, but they often focus on what they’ve achieved rather than the journey that led to it, writes Salvatore Cipriano.
A Ph.D. in English who “tumbled off” the tenure track shares how she forged a new career writing fiction.
A strong job application is not a chronology, writes David A. McDonald.
As a job seeker looking for positions beyond faculty roles, you have to achieve a lot in one page, and Joseph Barber provides tips on how to make the most of it.
Derek Attig offers three suggestions on how to strike a balance between being real and being professional — and figuring out what that even means — when talking to potential employers.
International graduate students are faced with an added challenge on the U.S. job market — get a job or go home — but it’s possible to turn their foreignness to their advantage, Christopher Garland writes.
The skills you’ve learned are vital, but so is the actual subject-matter expertise you’ve gained, argues Dan Moseson.
Karin Johnson offers a graduate student’s insight into how she had the conversation with her adviser — and how it went.
Joseph Barber offers advice on managing any fear-of-living-up feelings you may have as well as on how to communicate your own value to others on the platform.
