The Stigma of Silence
byBy Natalie Berkman Like many graduate students, I realized early on that landing a tenure-track job was far from guaranteed. To ensure that I…
By Natalie Berkman Like many graduate students, I realized early on that landing a tenure-track job was far from guaranteed. To ensure that I…
Proseminar fellow Nicole Gervasio discusses the need for graduate students to have a “career design team”––and to overcome personal hesitations to reframe relationships they already have.
Connected Academics Project Manager Stacy Hartman offers advice on how PhDs can get the most out of their LinkedIn profiles.
Connected Academics Proseminar Fellow Candace Cunard talks about how to build your own professional utopia. Spoiler: You’ll need to pay a lot more attention to your own needs and wants than you’re used to.
The Monday after the 2017 MLA convention in Philadelphia, I sat down on my sofa and composed twenty-five individual thank-you e-mails. I sent one…
By Carolyn Ureña This was my first year attending the MLA convention as a Connected Academics representative, and I was encouraged by the number…
By Patrick Butler For candidates on the job market, particularly ones focused on alt-ac positions, working in a library can seem enticing yet unattainable:…
By Martha M. Houle I hesitated for ages before leaving my tenured faculty position, because I knew the alternative would probably be showing up…
“It’s true that serendipity—otherwise known as luck—plays a role in job hunting. There are certain things over which job seekers have no control…” But in this post, Connected Academics project coordinator Stacy Hartman looks at some of the things job seekers do control, arguing that luck in job hunting isn’t as random as it can appear.
“There are a lot of things they don’t teach you in a humanities grad program,” says Lori Brister, PhD. “Here are a few things I learned over several months and dozens of informational interviews.”