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'Tailor your answers to the person you're meeting and try to make a human connection. Having said that, you want to deliver a consistent message across all of your interviews. [...]

IN WORKING with candidates on the academic-job market, I hear a recurrent question about the almost-inevitable mismatch between the teaching experience they have and the kind they need. There are [...]

WITH A NEW HIRING SEASON underway, I have been getting a lot of questions about applying to small liberal-arts colleges. Specifically: Should candidates signal to the search committee if they [...]

How DOES a faculty member handle being sick in an academic workplace that does not generally 'do' sick days akin to the 9-to-5 world? Someone has to teach, and the [...]

QUESTION: I just finished Year 1 of my first tenure-track job at a research university. My aim is to get a contract for my first book within the next six [...]

QUESTION: I just got my first tenure-track offer, which is great. But my adviser tells me I can't negotiate the terms because I have only the one offer, and I [...]

QUESTION: I've been asked to submit further materials for a job application, including a new syllabus for a specific elective the department offers. Problem: I also have to finish grading [...]

Your CV is a chronology of your accomplishments. As a genre, it has its own conventions and styling. Whereas the CV is a document that informs, the cover letter is [...]

Use the cover letter to persuade readers about the substance and contributions of your research, to offer a view inside your classroom, and to show how you 'fit' your prospective [...]

QUESTION: I am going on my first-ever campus interview soon, and I see that there is an 'interview with the search committee' on the itinerary. But I already did an [...]

QUESTION: I'M preparing my job documents for the fall and looking for ways to economize. Can I just write a really short cover letter since all the information I would [...]

I JUST ACCEPTED a (renewable) one-year gig as a lecturer. It's not a great job by any means--the salary is just sad, but it is a full-time job with benefits. [...]

I have A question about cover letters. In your blog posts and book, you stress the importance of putting research first in a cover letter for positions at research-oriented institutions, [...]

Could you talk about how to serve on your first search committee as a new faculty member? I am on one now, and I'm taken aback by all the politics [...]

Your CV is a chronology of your accomplishments. As a genre, it has its own conventions and styling. Whereas the CV is a document that informs, the cover letter is [...]

Use the cover letter to persuade readers about the substance and contributions of your research, to offer a view inside your classroom, and to show how you 'fit' your prospective [...]

In the category of 'obvious yet apparently needing to be said,' let me offer job candidates this advice: Put away your phone while your hosts are taking you out to [...]

Your CV is a chronology of your accomplishments. As a genre, it has its own conventions and styling. Whereas the CV is a document that informs, the cover letter is [...]

In the category of 'obvious yet apparently needing to be said,' let me offer job candidates this advice: Put away your phone while your hosts are taking you out to [...]

They are easy to write badly, and difficult to write well. Each will require many drafts to rise above the standard mediocrity that most applicants produce on their first (or [...]

For example, as a cultural anthropologist of Japan, I would have one platform oriented toward positions in cultural anthropology, and another oriented toward jobs in Asian studies. Karen Kelsky is [...]

That is a list of six to eight bullet points that describe your basic experiences and goals--your plans for research, teaching, grant-writing, program building, and potential collaborations. Get more career [...]