For many university staff this is the last week of the teaching year, a time when we say goodbye to our final year students (until graduation ceremonies at least!) and retreat to our homes and libraries or laboratories to start doing some serious research. So as an academic job seeker what sorts of things can we do to maximise our chances in the job market over the coming weeks and months?
Archive for the ‘CV Tips’ Category
End of year thoughts!
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009Summer job opportunities
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009For those of us who have permanent academic jobs, the cycle of the year is about to enter its research/course planning/writing up/working from home phase. But for those scholars who have been working on temporary contracts, the prospect of being without wages over the summer can suddenly seem very real around the end of May. However, there are some job opportunities out there for those who are prepared to put in really hard work over the summer.
Real jobseekers’ problems!
Friday, July 4th, 2008Yesterday in the glorious July sunshine I went off to Southampton University to give a talk on how to maximise your chances in the job market to a group of postgraduate computer scientists. As well as my talk, the campus was also hosting an open day so I got caught up among several hundred teenagers and their parents! However, I also got asked some really interesting questions about academic jobseeking that I thought I’d share with you. (more…)
Career building: set up your own networks
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008I was invited to give a talk last week in Liverpool about how to maximise your chances int he academic job market. Although I am not a trained careers adviser I do have a lot of personal experience and obviously have been involved in the career development site for jobs.ac so I jumped at the chance. I found it very rewarding and inspiring and hopefully my experience might give you some ideas too. (more…)
Is your CV a work of fiction?!
Friday, February 8th, 2008As I now spend many hours on the train each week doing my commute to work, I end up reading all sorts of those free papers that now litter our public transport network. I noticed an article at the start of this week that was common to many of them, which claimed that well over half of us lie (or at least embellish the truth!) on our CVs and among the age group 35-40 the figure rises to two-thirds! Reading that made me think about why is it that so many of us are telling white lies, and some obviously getting away with it, and why is that age group particularly dishonest?! (more…)
