Suddenly your entire professional life (and tbh most of your personal life) is online. When career stakes are high, like in an online campus visit or job talk, how do you ensure you’re making the best possible impression on an online platform? Karen and Kel have spent the last decade working almost entirely on digital platforms, so in this episode they share all the tricks and tactics they’ll learned over the years, about things like background, lighting, managing eye contact, body language, and more.
You didn’t get the job this year; what to do? Kel and I talk through what makes a competitive record and competitive presentation of...
Karen and Kel interrupt regularly scheduled programming to amplify the Black writers, scholars, and activists they follow and learn from on a daily basis....
When you think about academia like a garden, the analogy clarifies a lot of things. First off, not every plant can thrive in every...