http://chronicle.com/section/Manage-Your-Career/67/ Advice :: Manage Your Career Sun, 26 May 2013 00:05:13 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139403/ http://chronicle.com/article/RejectionIts-Discontents/139403/ A look at the reasons your grant proposal was rejected and what you can do about it.

]]> Mon, 20 May 2013 16:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139159/ http://chronicle.com/article/Not-Dressing-the-Part-and/139159/ Ten techniques that backfire on administrative job candidates.

]]> Mon, 13 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139101/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-D-j-Vu-of-Todays/139101/ As a new Ph.D. on the job market, you should realize that your competition is reading the same self-help books and Web sites as you are.

]]> Tue, 07 May 2013 16:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138957/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Best-Problem-Dealing-With/138957/ Having multiple suitors is an enviable position but one that carries its own kinds of confusion, pitfalls, and anxiety.

]]> Mon, 06 May 2013 16:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138903/ http://chronicle.com/article/Life-After-Academe-My-Blazer/138903/ Leaving graduate school doesn't have to mean selling out or forsaking your intellectual values.

]]> Thu, 02 May 2013 16:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138875/ http://chronicle.com/article/Self-Sabotage-in-the-Academic/138875/ Fifteen ways in which faculty members harm their own futures, often without knowing it.

]]> Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138739/ http://chronicle.com/article/From-CV-to-1-Page-R-sum-/138739/ What you need to know about preparing cover letters and résumés for nonteaching and nonacademic positions.

]]> Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138735/ http://chronicle.com/article/My-Calamitous-Teaching-Demo/138735/ A job candidate was ready to prove her pedagogical skills, but were her temporary students ready for her?

]]> Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138631/ http://chronicle.com/article/Fear-of-Feminism/138631/ Would a feminist by any other name be as sweet?

]]> Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138523/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Other-Job-Search/138523/ A dual-career couple in history ignores all the warnings and goes in search of two teaching jobs.

]]> Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138537/ http://chronicle.com/article/Does-Blanket-Dont-Go-to/138537/ For some students, the decision to attend graduate school is a lot less stupid than it is often characterized by advice gurus.

]]> Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138415/ http://chronicle.com/article/Need-Advice-on-a-Nonacademic/138415/ Instead of searching for jobs, Ph.D.'s need to start inventing them.

]]> Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138261/ http://chronicle.com/article/Professor-or-Administrator-/138261/ Two friends and former colleagues discuss the choices they made to leave the faculty life or stay.

]]> Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/137965/ http://chronicle.com/article/From-Academe-to-Market/137965/ A Ph.D. in the life sciences offers advice on pursuing a nonacademic job.

]]> Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/137851/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Common-Time-to-Get-Stuck/137851/ Why is the transition from coursework to dissertation so difficult for doctoral students?

]]> Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/137849/ http://chronicle.com/article/What-Community-College-Search/137849/ Don't focus on your research, and other common interview mistakes at two-year campuses.

]]> Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/137809/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Zombie-Marathon/137809/ We need a new metaphor for the long process from dissertation to tenure.

]]> Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/137655/ http://chronicle.com/article/Avoiding-Bad-Advice-From-Your/137655/ Tips on how to ignore, reject, or only pretend to follow terrible guidance.

]]> Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:00:01 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/137573/ http://chronicle.com/article/Bad-Letters-of-Recommendation-/137573/ A search committee begins to wonder who is actually writing the letters on behalf of a candidate.

]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/137449/ http://chronicle.com/article/Bloopers-to-Avoid-in-Job/137449/ Here are 12 things you should never say or do as a job candidate.

]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 08:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/137393/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Humanities-PhD-at-Work/137393/ A Ph.D. who works in the nonacademic sector explores the advantages and disadvantages of doctoral training.

]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/137009/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Midcareer-Change/137009/ After a two-year search, a professor succeeds in making the switch into administration.

]]> Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/137007/ http://chronicle.com/article/Finding-an-Internship-to/137007/ It can be a challenge for doctoral students to get a nonacademic internship when they don't fit the usual intern demographic.

]]> Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/137011/ http://chronicle.com/article/My-Boss-Thinks-Hes-Napoleon/137011/ A new autocrat is in the building, and a long-time faculty member wonders how to cope.

]]> Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/136939/ http://chronicle.com/article/Life-as-a-Job-Market-Captive/136939/ A Ph.D. in history is learning the rules of the game, and finding that search committees could do with a few lessons, too.

]]> Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/136755/ http://chronicle.com/article/What-Our-CVs-Dont-Say/136755/ Behind all those simple lines on our vitas lurk our triumphs, failures, and defeats.

]]> Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:00:00 EST