Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide ยท Confidence Tricks Everyone struggles with confidence at least some of the time. While confidence can’t be overly reliant on external validation, negative feedback is always difficult, and it’s tough to maintain your confidence when external validation is slow in coming. Confidence also depends on things you don’t have complete […]
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Hope works better than fear
The tension between the reality of now and your hopeful vision of the future creates forward momentum that helps you achieve your vision. There are good reasons to be fearful in general and in relation to your academic career. There are also reasons for hope. Those may be tiny glimmers right now. It is important to notice those glimmers and find ways to expand and multiply them. This is how change happens. Slowly. Collectively. Building on the positive to create new possibilities.
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You are not desperate
Do you feel like you need to apply for all of the opportunities out there? Even if they are only vaguely related to your career objectives? Do you even have career objectives? Are you spending so much time sending out applications that you don’t seem to have time to do anything else? Does crafting a […]
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