E66: How to Promote Yourself and Keep Going in Your Job Search, Part 2

In this episode, co-hosts Andy Hibel and Kelly Cherwin continue a conversation 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 discusses the job search process for graduate students and offers tips that apply to job seekers looking for their next role in academia. In this second part of the interview, she talks about dealing with rejection, doing homework before the on-campus interview, and what to include in your cover letters. 

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

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