Not that Kind of Applicant Review: Tales of Your Application in the Clutches of a Search Committee
Pipette Protagonist, PhD
Spoiler: It takes forever because search committees are made up of academics.
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Not that Kind of Job Applicant: Tales of Self-Discovery in the Job Application Process
Pipette Protagonist, PhD
Spoiler: There are more jobs out there than you think.
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You Can’t Always Get What You Want, But It’s Worth a Try!
The Edge for Scholars
Ready to get your first job? Not sure how to best advocate for yourself while still being reasonable? Here are a few tips.
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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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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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Dr. Stephen Korn on NINDS Workforce Development
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
A storified version of Dr Stephen Korn's talk at Vanderbilt on Workforce Development. Excellent pointers on grantsmanship, new funding mechanisms for trainees and more!
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Career Success Strategies for Researchers in Academic Medicine
Ryan Outman
How does one prepare for a career in academic medicine? And once hired, how does one move up?
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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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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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If I'm a Minority Recruit, Is It Tacky to Point Out There are No Other Minority Faculty?
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
Around the Twitter world today, a kindly trainee had been offered an awesome job (woot!). BUT, and there’s always a but, there were no other minority hires in their department/institution. They meekly inquired, “If I’m a minority who has been offered a job, is it tacky to point out that they have no other minorities […]
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