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 […]
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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?
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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,
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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This guest blog was written by Patrick Goodridge who is a linguist, language teacher, and writer based in Philadelphia, PA. He will earn his BA in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania this May, and hopes to enter an MA program in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies thereafter. He also works as a linguistic
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Often when I give informational interviews and I ask something like “what would you like to do?” it becomes very clear from their answer very quickly that the person is only thinking about problems and challenges the way that they had been framed in school. “I like to critically deconstruct political speeches for what they
I have approached the question of the HOW a couple different ways in discussions on this blog, so first let me say a bit more about what I mean by the HOW of work. Here I am I referring to how you think and the way that you see the world and how this shapes the problems
