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Monthly Newsletter for Academics and Career Changers
June 2019
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Dear
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Have you ever wanted to leave academia but felt like a failure for even considering it? If so, you may need to find a new way to tell your story. If you would like help learning how to get over feelings of failure and move on in a positive way, please
sign up for a
Complimentary Strategy Session
and start changing your life now.
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Feeling like a failure for leaving academia
and what to do about it
Those who never fail are those who never try.
~Ilka Chase, Am. actress and novelist
If you decide to leave academia, you may have to deal with feeling like a failure. Like the road you were on was washed out in a storm and now you're not sure which direction to go. This can be true whether
read more>>>
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Moving on: Dealing with the emotional aspects of leaving academia
For a link to the PPT presentation,
email me!
Given May 4, 2019 as
part of the Beyond the Professoriate's
6th Annual Online Career Conference for PhDs
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Many academics face
paralysis or uncertainty when navigating the academic job search process. This workbook helps ABDs, newly minted academics, and those who want to move laterally to handle the pragmatic aspects of the job search from cover letter to negotiating an offer. In the book are
58 worksheets, examples, and checklists
to help you make decisions crucial to your job search, handle
imposter syndrome, craft a cover letter and other documents, and negotiate an offer.
Key Features
- Introduction to the academic job search cycle and various categories of hires
- How to begin the process of looking for work
- Ways to organize and track your job search applications
- Ten important pieces of your academic job search portfolio
- Ins and outs of your academic job search interviews at conferences, by telephone or video, and on campus
- Chances of being offered a tenure-track job, and alternatives to the professoriate inside the academy
- Recap of the most important items to consider in your month by month search process
The authors, academic coaches Hillary Hutchinson and Mary Beth Averill, have a combined work experience of over 40 years helping academic clients unfamiliar with the nuts and bolts of seeking an academic position. In this workbook, they offer real life, up-to-date examples to help academics organize their job searches. The workbook is designed to reduce anxiety through concrete exercises to illuminate the academic job search pro
cess.
Available on Kindle and paperback. The paperback is an 8 1/2 x 11 format.
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A quick look at 2019 Trends in Higher Education for Early Career Academics
Are you an early career academic, in need of a succinct guide concerning some of the current issues facing young professionals in higher education? We have a free special report, with an executive summary, just for you!
Topics include:
- Status of the Higher Education Act
- Changing perceptions of higher education
- Financial implications
- The role of tenure
- New delivery models
- Instructional trends
- Societal pressures
- Changes in scholarly publication
- The role of mobile technology
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Learn at you own speed - A series of books to help you overcome adversities and make changes in your life
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The CHANGE-Up System: Your guide to creating fulfillment, balance, and success in your career
Paperback -
$9.95
Kindle Edition -
$3.95
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Confidence: The Real McCoy
Paperback -
$5.99
Kindle Edition -
$2.99
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The EDUCO System: Your guide to becoming a happy, productive, thriving academic
Paperback - $9.95
Kindle Edition - $ 3.95
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Change: From Surviving to Thriving Transitions
Paperback - $10.49
Kindle Edition - $2.99
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How to become an academic coach: What you need to know
by Dr. Mary Beth Averill and Hillary Hutchinson
Paperback - $19.99
Kindle Edition - $9.99
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The Success-GPS™ evaluates nine essential areas of life to help you discover exactly where you are now and what to focus on to get where you want to go in the fastest possible way.
This test is FREE to take and a great tool to help you plan your next move.
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Laser Coaching is a
15-minute
coaching session
for only $75. You can work on one specific issue
that is getting in the way and impeding your progress.
Sometimes you can't wait for a solution to your current situation. You need help now.
Examples of how
Laser Coaching
can help:
- Determine an immediate course of action to bring some positive energy into a conversation with a superior at work.
- Understand what is happening in your life causing them to feel depleted or overwhelmed.
- Bounce ideas off a disinterested party for different perspectives or find different interpretations of whatever is happening in your life.
- Find solutions and new projects to help you get over your post-project depression.
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Need A Speaker?
Hillary is also available for motivational key note speaking engagements at events, seminars, presentations, and retreats.
T
alks can be done in increments of 20 - 45 minutes and will cover the basic points with some audience participation, and time for questions.
Learn more...
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May be reproduced in full or in part with proper attribution as provided here: Hillary Hutchinson, Career Coach and Change Strategist,
TransitioningYourLife.com
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About Hillary Hutchinson
Hillary Hutchinson, M.A., M.Ed., is a certified coach helping individuals transition to the next stage of their career, or even changing their career completely, and has a specialty in academic transitions.
Visit her website
Hillary Can Help -- Do you need to increase the joy in your life and reduce the obligations?
To get help, click below to sign up for a
Complimentary Strategy Session
and start changing your life now.
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