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- Negotiating for Your First Academic Position
You’ve just articulated your research vision and completed a series of interviews with potential employers. You’re in your office revising a manuscript and you get a text… It’s your first job offer! How do you proceed in a way that gives you the greatest likelihood of success? ...
- Salvaging an Insufficient Offer
Receiving a faculty offer that is financially untenable is the worst of both worlds: temporary excitement followed by a crash. It triggers disappointment at being led along the hiring path alongside explicit evidence that your value and needs were not understood.
Don’t ass...
- Asking for What You Need: Intentional Negotiation
Regardless of where you are in your career, it can be difficult to ask for what you need. For some this reflects a sense that you can’t or shouldn’t ask for more than what you have; for others, they don’t know who to ask or how to ask; and for some, they have had negative exp...
- You Can’t Always Get What You Want, But It’s Worth a Try
Today's post is from a K-level scholar who knows a lot about negotiation.
Ready to get your first job? Getting too much advice about negotiation? Not sure how to best advocate for yourself while still being reasonable? Here are a few tips:
Decide what you want. Do you want to...
- Ten Tips When Interviewing for a Faculty Position
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I’m in the midst of coaching my 21st and 22nd advisees through the process of interviewing for faculty jobs. Every year, I think, I should write this stuff down in case it’s useful to others...
- Not That Kind of Tale: Roundup for the Academic Job Season
From the clutches of a search committee to the interview gauntlet, a plethora of protips from Pipette Protagonist:
Application Tales
Not that Kind of Summer: Tales of Preparing for Academic Job Season
A guide to the first step: putting together the application. Each ...
- On the Market: A Job Hunt Roundup
Are you preparing for the next career stage, looking to change directions, or just curious to see what’s out there (perhaps for an ongoing negotiation)? We’ve rounded up job boards with postings that span career stage, scientific discipline, and industry sector. Use job alerts so...
- Job Search: Interviewing from the Waist Up
Late winter and early spring are peak season for post-doctoral interviews and second visits for faculty hires. If some of your interviews will be over Zoom, this blog's for you.
Whether you are interviewing or being interviewed, odds are you are about to be a video star. We'v...
- Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended on It
Getting to Yes may still be the bible of negotiation books, but Chris Voss's Never Split the Difference offers an intriguing alternative perspective. Instead of preaching objectivity and separating the people from the situation, Voss, a former FBI crisis negotiator, teaches how t...
- Interviewing Do’s and Don’ts (from Those Who’ve Seen It All)
Interviewing for faculty positions is riddled with potential missteps. Two department chairs and a vice chair for faculty affairs share how to put your best foot forward.
Do…
Prepare Your Elevator Pitch
Draft a brief, pithy statement of purpose (“elevator pitch”). Give a co...
