How Not to Blow an Interview
The Edge for Scholars
A roundup of the internet's best advice for acing your interview.
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Thoughts from a Self-Proclaimed Interdisciplinarian
Tisha Felder, PhD, MSW
Pros, cons, and lessons learned from an interdisciplinary and interprofessional journey.
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Summer Reading: What's Popular in the Edge Library
The Edge for Scholars
Here's what's been flying off the shelves of our "analog library" of career development books.
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Salvaging an Insufficient Offer
Motivated Mentor
When a salary and start-up offer is unacceptable you need a strategy to redeem the situation. Planning your script optimizes the chances of negotiations ending well.
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Our Obsession with Tenure
Inga Chira, PhD, CFP®
Chasing tenure translates into a life people outside the academic do not understand. I am often amazed by the importance professors place on their tenure above their families, their sanity, and their lives. Everything will be OK, tenure or not.
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Not that Kind of Summer: Tales of Preparing for Academic Job Season
Pipette Protagonist, PhD
Spoiler: Do the prep work before job season starts.
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Is Your CV Making You Look Like a Chump?
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
CVs are a fabulous way to frame your skills and interests with institutions you are interacting with professionally. The Fighty Squirrel highly recommends you personalize each CV you send out for the audience. This is painfully true for applications for jobs and grants where your piles of accumulated titles and few papers can show that […]
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Q&A: How to Give a Chalk Talk
BRET Office of Career Development ASPIRE Program
You have a whiteboard, a marker, and an hour to convince a department to hire you. How will you handle it? Senior faculty give their advice.
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Not that Kind of Job Offer: Tales of Negotiation
Pipette Protagonist, PhD
Spoiler: Negotiate like your academic future depends on it. It does.
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Writing Teaching and Diversity Statements
BRET Office of Career Development ASPIRE Program
Top tips for writing these important parts of your job application packet.
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