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Positive Communication in Your Career Conversations
Laura N. Schram highlights six actions you can take to improve your professional relationships.
Life On (and Off) the Tenure Track
Michael Johnson Jr. offers suggestions for how tenure-track faculty members can and must support adjuncts and other "temporary" colleagues in academe.
How to Market Your Book Through Social Media
Anthony Ocampo provides three tips for cultivating a community and curating a conversation.
Interviewing for Your First Staff Job in Academe
William Weaver offers some tips for pleading your case to two key audiences.
The Natural -- and Desirable -- Death of the Conference Interview
It preys upon the most vulnerable members of the scholarly community and is unhealthy for the departments that demand it, argues Matteo Pangallo.
Why Do We Talk Badly About Ourselves?
Students and postdocs generally lack confidence in their own abilities, writes Joseph Barber, or at least lack practice in communicating those abilities to others.
“I Couldn’t Possibly”
Cathy Mazak explores the lies one can tell oneself when allowing an academic job to be all consuming.
Is Your Career a Wicked Problem?
Raymonda Burgman recommends using an organizational concept to help break out of predictable thinking that may keep you in something of a rut.