Inspired by the recent announcement by Lisa Munro and Kristi Lodge that they will assume the mantle of the #withaPhD chats from Jen Polk of From PhD to Life , I dusted off this blog post that had been sitting – 80% completed – in my “blog posts under construction” folder. Reading some stats about negotiating and asking for raises …
I have received a few inquiries this week from linguists wondering how to begin job searches. Some of their specific questions included: How do I narrow down what fields to focus on? How will I know what kind of a job I will like? How do I find jobs that leverage my strengths and interests? …
My ten years of experience in improv has taught me that we all can do things that on the surface may seem impossible. Collaboratively improvising scenes and entire performances out of nothing seems like it should be impossible. How on earth can you come up with characters, contexts, relationships and on top of everything else, …
When I tell people that I am a sociolinguist, the first response is very often “what can you do with that?!?!?!?!” And as Director of the MA program in Language and Communication (MLC) here in the department of Linguistics at Georgetown, I teach a course called the MLC Professionalization seminar to help students answer precisely …
At a story workshop yesterday at Lubbock Christian University, the group shared some phenomenal insights that really got to the heart of how a story listening, finding, and telling practice can be transformational at work. Thought I would share while they’re fresh in my mind! Story Finding is Hard!! Truer words were never spoken. …
So you’re heading to a networking event, and you want to have some stories at the ready to tell about yourself. In her storytelling for business workshops, Jessica Piscitelli Robinson of Better Said Than doneteaches that you can have four kinds of business story: This last category is a story about someone who could have used …
When I am asked for advice about what to say in a statement of purpose, I say: “show me your city block,” something that shows me a bit about who this person is and how they understand and interact with the world. As I will explain in this blog post, this advice is informed by …
Applying for jobs is all about skills. Creating the job that you want means recognizing the skills that you possess and figuring out ways to use them in contexts that make you happy. Getting the job that you want is all about communicating this awareness (with enthusiasm) in texts like cover letters. So what skills …
