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What is required for management/leadership

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Jo VanEvery 3 Comments

Continuing with the difficult thoughts. Someone I follow on Twitter said this: “is it possible to “manage” well something you don’t fundamentally understand or know how to do yourself? I doubt it.” I’m not attributing it because it’s not about them. This is a really common sentiment. I’ll pair it with a statement a colleague […]

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Leadership and management: some questions

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Jo VanEvery 3 Comments

To make a start on those difficult questions… Here are a couple of things that have inspired me, irritated me, sparked difficult thoughts lately. Various conversations about women and leadership: The Status of Women: Gender and the Ivory Ceiling of Service Work in the Academy on the FedCan blog. This parody of a post about […]

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Writing about difficult topics

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Jo VanEvery 3 Comments

I’m scared to start writing because I don’t know where to stop or how to break it up into manageable chunks (manageable for you to read as much as for me to write; you are busy; you don’t need a monograph from me).

Here are some of the issues I’m mulling over. I’m going to try to write about them.

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Being the scholar you want to be

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Jo VanEvery 1 Comment

Following a link from Twitter the other day (sorry, I forget who sent me here) I found this fantastic blog post on the Scientific American website: Three things I learned at the Purdue Conference for Pre-Tenure Women: on being a radical scholar. This resonates strongly with my own views about managing your academic career. I […]

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Post-PhD precarity

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

We know that to get an academic position you need to publish from your dissertation. It would be helpful to at least have a good idea of where your research program is going to go next. If you can get started on that next project, even better. Competition is stiff. Even institutions that don’t have […]

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Approach the CV/resumé actively

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

My friend and colleague Julie Clarenbach has written an excellent post on building your resumé. Think about the job you’d really love to have. Think about what skills and qualifications you would need in order to land that job. … what would your resume (not someone else’s, or your resume from a different, parallel life, […]

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An example of an academic career

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

It’s easy to imagine that an academic career is simple. You get a tenure-track position in a department. You teach. You do research. You sit on some committees. You get promoted. It is also easy to get discouraged at the conservatism of academic cultures. To see the difficulties for interdisciplinary scholars. The struggles of humanities […]

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Why you get hired

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

What will you contribute to the success of the organization?

This is the primary question every person or committee who has ever hired anyone is trying to answer.

As with any other writing you do, audience matters. The people doing the hiring are the audience for your job application materials. They need to be written in such a way that they can find the information they need to answer this question.

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Yes, you have career options

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

An article on Embedded Sociologist from the American Sociological Association, inspires some thoughts on the value of organizing scholars working outside academe within scholarly associations. Links to other such groups are encouraged in the comments.

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Job hunting in times of change

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

It’s not just that the labour market is awful right now. Higher education is changing More students. Less public funding per student. Major shifts in the balance of public and private funding, even in public institutions. Stable or declining numbers of full-time, permanent faculty positions (what gets called “tenured” and “tenure track” in North America). […]

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Over at the Careers Café…

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

As you know, I also blog for University Affairs Careers Café. This month’s post is about the need to publish to get an academic job.

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Disturbing read about job advice to PhDs

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

How do you advise students about academic careers? Apart from the obvious “there aren’t a lot of jobs out there”, what do you say? What do you feel uncomfortable about saying (or not saying)?

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