Careers Café
To all of the tenure-track and tenured faculty: you have the ability to make real changes in the lives of so many people.
How I adapted my regular course for a pandemic reality.
We need to do a better job explaining the benefits of office hours to our students – and be flexible about how we meet them.
Self-reflections are another kind of metric, one that can create space for us to think carefully about our mission and mandates as teachers.
We need to recognize that teaching remotely is far more complicated than simply putting content online.
Some concrete strategies to help you be a better support for your students.
The time has come to talk about ethical considerations and best practices for these kinds of announcements.
This column is being relaunched, the first post takes a unique look at some of the issues that affect contingent faculty.
As I wrap up my eight years of writing for Careers Café, I can’t help but impart some final advice.
Networking can feel dehumanizing, and the easiest way to change that is to treat the people you encounter as complete humans.
Sitting on a board can help develop your ability to handle situations of accountability without authority.
Some secret interviews are built into the formal interview process, some happen during informational interviews and some happen purely by chance.
The secret CV doesn’t contain things you want to hide, but rather things that you’re proud of, and haven’t yet found a way to articulate.
As much as I’m in favour of making a change for the better, fresh starts often take persistence and sweat.
A rejection is not a comment on who you are as a person, or even on your ability to do the job.
Many career resources change over time, and are worth checking in on periodically.
Your university may already have a number of offerings that you assume it doesn’t.
What do your flaws (yes, you have some) look like in their best, most advantageous form?
Not only do people frequently redirect their careers, but they often do so with the help of their past experience, not despite them.
It’s reassuringly self-aware – and frankly, exciting – to hear someone reflect on how part of their career path made them who they are.