Negotiating for Your First Academic Position
You’ve just received your first job offer! Here’s how to proceed in a way that gives you the greatest likelihood of success.
Salvaging an Insufficient Offer
When a salary and start-up offer is unacceptable you need a strategy to redeem the situation. Planning your script optimizes the chances of negotiations ending well.
Asking for What You Need: Intentional Negotiation
Regardless of where you are in your career, it can be difficult to ask for what you need. For some this reflects a sense that you can’t or shouldn’t ask for more than what you have; for others, they don’t know who to ask or how to ask; and for some, they have had negative … Continue reading “Asking for What You Need: Intentional Negotiation”
Thoughts from a Self-Proclaimed Interdisciplinarian
Pros, cons, and lessons learned from an interdisciplinary and interprofessional journey.
Accommodating Employees with (Invisible) Disabilities
Evening the playing field for staff with a visible or invisible disability.
Writing Teaching and Diversity Statements
Top tips for writing these important parts of your job application packet.
Join the Conversations Online Book Club
Together we’ll dig into discussion of books selected for actionable intel.
Your Message in the Media
You’ve been contacted to talk about your recent publication or discuss research by another team. Here’s how to prepare.
One-Minute Writing Tuneup: Don’t Dangle Your Modifiers Off a Cliff
A “dangling modifier” has nothing in the sentence to modify, or appears to modify something the author doesn’t intend it to.
Using Timelines to Diagnose Problems in Career Planning
Translating intended goals into a single simple image as a timeline is a powerful tool for staying on track.