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Creating A Satisfying Academic Career – Part 1

Posted on September 13, 2024 by Jo VanEvery

 Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide · Creating A Satisfying Academic Career It is not an exaggeration to describe the current context in higher education as dystopian. Whether you are already employed in academia, permanently or precariously, or whether you are seeking academic employment, the situation is distressing. Is it possible to have a satisfying […]

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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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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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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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Two Solitudes? Knowledge mobilization/transfer & the PhD problem

Posted on April 20, 2010 by Jo VanEvery 6 Comments

This post might be a bit random but there are some thoughts mulling in the back of my head and I figure if I get them out of my head where other people can engage with them, they might grow into something more coherent. Please treat what follows as preliminary thinking. Thinking aloud. An invitation […]

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