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Career Development Toolkit for Higher Education Professionals
Careers in Higher Education (HE) are changing rapidly as institutions adapt to a global marketplace for students, and as the political and economic landscape becomes more challenging. Use the activities in this toolkit for inspiration as...
Career Planning ebook
This ebook contains 11 easy steps and simple activities to help you get started. Choosing to get a new job or to focus on regaining the love for our current job will benefit from a structured approach and this ebook is going to help you...
Career Opportunities With A History Degree
As a history graduate you will have gained skills highly valued by employers, such as analytical and critical reasoning, oral and written communication and research skills - a history degree is a good launch pad for a wide range of...
Key Questions To Ask When Starting A New Job
The hardest part is over. You have submitted the application, been invited to interview and got the job. Well done! However, now you will be faced with a range of new challenges as you prepare to start your new job. Here are some...
Working For Free?!
This article explores the issue of unpaid work and whether it is beneficial to your career. Whether you are a graduate leaving university, a postgraduate looking to enhance your skills, or someone looking for a career change or career...
Leading A Team Of Diverse Personalities
It is really important as a leader to give timely and relevant feedback to your staff and students. It can make a difference not only to the quality of their work going forward but also to their levels of job satisfaction.
Leading A Team Of Diverse Personalities – Part 5: Delegating Work
Delegation can be difficult, especially if you are delegating a task that you are used to doing yourself! This can cause issues around not wanting to let go and it can be difficult to think what the other person needs to know to do the...
Leading A Team Of Diverse Personalities – Part 4: Getting Things Done As A Team
Although diversity is incredibly valuable in a team, it can sometimes lead to blockages in just getting things done. As team leader, if you can see where some of these blockages might arise, you can start to explore better ways of working.
Leading A Team Of Diverse Personalities – Part 3: Problem Solving
Problem solving as a team can be difficult – as we have seen, some members will want to talk things through, others will need time on their own to think.
Leading a Team of Diverse Personalities – Part 2: Team Meetings
In part 1 we looked at the four sets of Myers Briggs Type Indicator preferences and how these lead to different approaches at work. In part 2 we will explore the impact of personality differences on team meetings and how, as a team...
Mid-career Strategies
Many of the articles here on the jobs.ac website are designed for the early career scholar who is looking for a first job in academia. However, career dilemmas can hit at any stage. How do you develop your career if you are mid-stage...
Handling Rejection in Academia
With the job market so competitive at the moment, you will probably have to handle rejection if you are looking for work.
Globalizing Your Academic Career
Teaching abroad is one of the dreams that many academics arguably have. Stories of living in a warmer clime or teaching with the latest tools are part of the academic imaginary just as migration has always been part of the academic...
How to Develop a Portfolio Career in Academia
The term portfolio career is increasingly used to describe a work-life in which you do two or more part-time jobs for different employers. This article will help you to consider how you can build a successful career by combining separate...
How to Create a Professional Development Plan
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is the learning and development you undertake in order to carry out a current role or move into a new one. Take our 3 easy steps to start your Professional Development Plan today!
How to Boost Your Career in 2011
"New Year, new start." You hear this phrase again and again when it's approaching the end of the year. This article, however, focuses on what you need to do in 2011 to advance your career in the long term.
How do we learn? Brain Based Learning: A new approach
We've all heard of the myriad ways that people learn, what the philosophers have called epistemology (the theory of knowledge and learning).
Training: Development and Evaluation
We all need training. Jobs change and we require a different set of skills. Technology moves on and we have to keep pace. New responsibilities come our way that we must be equipped to deal with. Managers perceive a need for a different...
Third Stream Activities: Broaden Your Career Horizons
Many academics will be familiar with the idea of third stream activities, if only because a directive encouraging academics to adapt their work to it has come from senior management level. However, the third stream is also important for...
SWOT Analysis Helps Career Decisions
If you.re redundant, unemployed or keen to make a change to your career your first action is to examine what you can offer an employer. Explore your skills, knowledge and experience. Next think hard about what it is that you want to do...
