E65: How to Promote Yourself and Keep Going in Your Job Search, Part 1

HigherEdJobs Podcast

In this episode, co-hosts Andy Hibel and Kelly Cherwin talk with Professor Claire Kamp Dush from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. She has dual appointments in the Minnesota Population Center and the Department of Sociology and studies topics at the intersection of psychology, sociology, and public health.

Kamp Dush, a first-generation college student, teaches a Ph.D. Job Market course and provides advice on the job search process for graduate students seeking their next role in academia. In this first part of the interview, she talks about the importance of promoting your work and accomplishments, authenticity and not letting rejection get the best of you during a job search.

Hibel is a co-founder of HigherEdJobs and serves as its chief operating officer. Cherwin is the director of editorial strategy at HigherEdJobs.

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