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Articles by Stacy Hartman
Advice | Do’s and Don’ts of Negotiating
Editor’s Note: Previously in the Career Talk series, our experts on doctoral-career counseling have offered advice on managing a faculty job search, looking for industry positions, and other career-planning topics. After an arduous job hunt, it’s both a validation and a relief to hear “we want you to come and work with us.” But whether you are a new Ph.D. or more advanced in your career, don’t let your excitement get the better of you. It’s too soon to say yes.
Advice | How to Prepare for Job Interviews in Industry
Editor’s Note: Previously in this Career Talk series, our experts on doctoral-career counseling have offered advice on running a tandem job search in academe and industry, searching for nonfaculty careers, writing cover letters, building a CV, designing a résumé, and other topics. While faculty-job interviews tend to follow a predictable structure, industry interviews can be idiosyncratic.
How to Get an Academic Job
The end of the graduate-school gauntlet is in sight. You’ve completed your coursework, passed your comprehensive exams, gotten your dissertation proposal approved, and already written several chapters. But now comes one more hurdle, which might feel more daunting than all the others: the academic job market. If you’re not sure where to begin or are feeling overwhelmed, you’re not alone.
Advice | The Self-Employment Path for Ph.D.s
Editor’s Note: Previously in this Career Talk series, our experts on doctoral-career counseling have offered advice on running a tandem job search, writing and tailoring cover letters, interviewing, building a CV, and other topics. Self-employment is often overlooked as a professional possibility open to Ph.D.s. However, a surprising number of us, having considered our options, are drawn to it.
Résumé Dos and Don’ts for Ph.D.s
Editor’s Note: Previously in this Career Talk series, our experts on doctoral-career counseling have offered advice on running a tandem job search, writing and tailoring cover letters, interviewing, building a CV, and other topics. More Ph.D.s than ever are going into industry, 48 percent of them to be precise, as documented by the most recent annual Survey of Earned Doctorates. That long-term trend — true across fields, and for many reasons — is undeniable.
Résumé Dos and Don’ts for Ph.D.s
Editor’s Note: Previously in this Career Talk series, our experts on doctoral-career counseling have offered advice on running a tandem job search, writing and tailoring cover letters, interviewing, building a CV, and other topics. More Ph.D.s than ever are going into industry, 48 percent of them to be precise, as documented by the most recent annual Survey of Earned Doctorates. That long-term trend — true across fields, and for many reasons — is undeniable.
Advice | How to Jumpstart Your Industry Job Search
No doubt this winter break you’re hoping to reconnect with family and friends and take time away from work. Some rest is important to start the new semester refreshed. But for Ph.D.s and graduate students on the job market, this is also a time to catch up on things that didn’t get done in the fall –– such as that industry job search you kept meaning to think about in more detail. We recommend you apply for nonacademic jobs, even if a faculty career is your first choice.
Advice | A Candidate’s Guide to Today’s Job Interviews
For decades, the interview process for tenure-track positions was relatively fixed in both timing and format. A department would conduct first-round interviews during its annual disciplinary conference at a hotel, and six to eight weeks later, invite select candidates to second-round interviews on the campus. For today’s faculty job candidates, however, that system has been disrupted by a pandemic and a job market short on tenure-track openings.
Advice | 7 Ways to Fix Ph.D. Advising on the Job Market
“Let’s not be the sort of advisers who evade responsibility for our students’ career options.” That was the provocative plea of a 2015 essay by Jenna Lay, an associate professor of English at Lehigh University, who was responding to the rise of for-hire career consultants. They filled a gap left by faculty advisers who tended to avoid difficult conversations about the gloomy state of the academic job market.
Advice | How to Tailor Your Cover Letters for Faculty Jobs
In this year’s hiring cycle, you may be sending out more than a dozen academic job applications, all of which have deadlines within a few weeks of one another. The prospect of tailoring each cover letter to a particular opening is so daunting that you might be tempted to just send out the same one to every department. No one would know, right?
Advice | For Ph.D.s, a Tandem Job Search Is Increasingly the Norm
Academics still talk about “the job market” in the singular, as though only one exists. They mean, of course, the faculty job market. But there are many different labor markets, and increasingly, Ph.D.s are conducting what we call a “tandem search” — that is, simultaneously pursuing openings in academe and industry. As experts on graduate career counseling, we have some advice for job candidates and their advisers on how to manage a dual search.
Advice | How to Write a Persuasive Cover Letter
Summer stretches before us, with all its potential for meeting research and writing goals. But if you’re going on the faculty-job market for the first time — as a recent Ph.D. or an advanced doctoral student — now is also the time to start drafting, or fine-tuning, your cover letters.
Grad schools should halt doctoral admissions in the humanities for two years (opinion)
In 2008, when the academic job market collapsed, humanities students who were about to finish their Ph.D.s were left to flounder. Job postings, interviews and even job offers vanished overnight, leaving hundreds to enter the academic market again the next year, when they were joined by a fresh cohort of colleagues, newly minted. That cycle repeated itself over and over, while the number of Ph.D.s who graduated with a job -- academic or not -- dropped sharply in all fields.
“We All Have Levers We Can Pull”: Reforming Graduate Education
JULY 22, 2020 IN JANUARY 2020, we attended the Modern Language Association’s annual conference in Seattle. There we convened with a working group — organized by Katina Rogers and Stacy Hartman — of professionals, professors, and graduate students who work across various roles in higher education or adjacent institutions. This piece on humanities doctoral programs that follows was co-written by six working group members.
Ten Jobs Where You Can Use Your PhD
Earning a PhD provides you with more skills and career opportunities than you might think it does. Below are ten jobs where you can use your PhD—some in academic settings and some not. There are many other opportunities available to you; this list is just a place to start thinking about your career options.* Staff writers report on artistic and cultural events, providing analysis and context for a broad audience on a variety of topics.
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