Top Tips
Our careers based Top Ten Tips offer quick tips on applying to surviving. Written by HR Professionals, the Director of jobs.ac.uk and careers specialists based on their experiences.
Top Tips for Conducting Appraisals
The purpose of an appraisal is to increase an employee’s performance and efficiency. They are also intended to increase motivation, ensure that people are kept updated with the latest developments and inform them of the skills they...
Top 10 Tips: getting a work-life balance
This article is written for people who work too hard, too much or for too long, whether it’s at home or in the workplace. These 10 tried and tested personal development suggestions are relevant to both work and home situations. If...
Top Tips: Filling in an Application Form for a Teaching Job
Applying for jobs can be an extremely frustrating process, not least because every application form is unique. This means that you cannot just present a standard application and copy and paste it into the relevant form. You effectively...
Ten Top tips for Attending Postgraduate Study Open Days
Universities offer a variety of postgraduate open days. They help you to get to know more about the postgraduate courses they are offering and introduce you to the wider experience of being one of their students.
Top 5 Academic Interview Questions and Answers
This article will list the most common interview questions for lecturer positions and suggest some possible answers to them. The examples of good answers are not the only options. There are, of course, many other ways of successfully...
Top 101 Job Tips: How to Find a Job, Succeed in the Job and Progress in Your Career
Our tips section here at jobs.ac.uk is truly colossal. It is the result of one-and-a-half year’s hard work, and covers everything from CV tips to maintaining your sanity. We appreciate that you probably haven’t got time to read all...
Top 5 Tips for Coping with Redundancy in Academia
Although the issue of redundancy is on many people’s minds at the moment, private sector workers are being hit harder than those in the public sector. However, redundancy is not unheard of in the university job market. For example, in...
Top 10 Tips for Choosing a Postgraduate Course
Every year people decide to embark on a course of postgraduate study. In a recession, when jobs are difficult to acquire, more students tend to stay in university to complete postgraduate studies. There are thousands of courses to choose...
Top Tips on Applications for Funding
Putting together funding applications is one of the most onerous parts of an academic’s job. They are time-consuming and require many details and alterations and despite putting so much work into them there is only a small chance of...
Tops Tips for Telephone Interview
Telephone interviews are becoming more and more common amongst recruiters, but that’s only half the story when it comes to job hunting. Find out why, when you’re looking for work, the phone can be your best friend or your worst enemy.
Top Tips for a Career Change: 10 questions before you quit
When you’re stuck in a rut and dreading each day of work, a change of career seems to be the answer. The grass looks greener and the sky bluer. But is it? These ten crucial questions, answered honestly, will help you to think it...
Top Ten Tips On Being A Good Undergraduate Teacher
It is coming to the end of my first year as a lecturer. Here are some tips for being a good undergraduate teacher that I have learned in my first year.
Top Ten Tips: How to Survive an Interview
Interviews can be nerve-racking, particularly if you’re not used to them. The anticipation is often worse than the actual event because not only are you walking into an unknown situation, but also you know you’ll be judged on your...
Top Ten Tips: Running an Academic Conference
As a junior academic one of the best ways to get known in your field is to host your own conference. This can be done jointly with someone else or as a solo effort, but whichever way you choose to approach it you will find it hard but...
Top Ten Tips on Note-taking
Note taking is a skill that we use in many walks of life: at school, university and in the world of work. Here are our ten tips for better notation.
Top Tips for Academic Americans Wanting to Work in Europe
There are many opportunities for American academics to make the move across the pond and work in the UK. Where can you find these vacancies? And what tips are there for making a successful move? This article is designed to help you...
Teaching a module based on your own research
The last in a three part series on undergraduate teaching. In this article, Dr. Armstrong looks at the topic of teaching a module based on your own research.
Top Ten Tips for Teaching Outside Your Area of Specialism
Second in the series of teaching tips by Dr, Catherine Armstrong.
Top Ten Tips for Teaching Undergraduates
Dr. Catherine Armstrong provides the top tips for new teachers.
Commuting Tips
Article by Ben Davies on how to benefit from commuting to work, and advice on reducing your carbon footprint.
