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2023

January

  • Academic, Research and Teaching Talent Trends report summary 2021/22
  • PhD and Masters Talent Trends report summary 2021/22
  • Professional, Managerial and Support Services Talent Trends report 2021/22
  • 2022

    October

  • How To Write An Effective Online Job Advert
  • August

  • HE Recruitment 2021 Webinar Series
  • Jobseeker Preferences Report 2021 summary
  • HR Managers’ Open Forum webinar
  • Jobseeker Preferences Further Education Report 2022 summary
  • Jobseeker Preferences PhD Report 2022 summary
  • May

  • Welcome back to our university staff recruitment conference
  • Jobseeker Preferences Report 2022 summary
  • February

  • PhD and Masters Talent Trends report summary
  • How to build a strong employer brand
  • 2021

    December

  • Professional, Managerial and Support Services Talent Trends report summary
  • November

  • Academic, Research and Teaching Talent Trends report summary
  • October

  • How Twitter Enhances Scientific Careers
  • May

  • How to PhD Podcast Series
  • March

  • Rebuilding the Workforce webinar
  • The Future of Work is Here webinar
  • 2020

    December

  • New webinar series for HR professionals in universities
  • April

  • Managing loneliness during a PhD
  • Celebrating all the little things
  • Flexible Working
  • The benefits of working from home
  • March

  • Working from home
  • 10 Tips For Working From Home With Kids
  • We have improved our Jobs by Email service!
  • February

  • A Career in Higher Education Means More
  • Receiving feedback on your work (Part 2)
  • January

  • Receiving feedback on your work (Part 1)
  • Conferences and travelling: the glamorous and not so glamorous truth
  • 2019

    December

  • 2nd year ups and downs
  • Professional Services
  • The PhD Rollercoaster: 1st Year Ups and Downs
  • November

  • Hi, I’m Abbie! 3rd year PhD student
  • October

  • Discover WEG21: the New Staffing Platform for FE
  • HE Recruitment 2019
  • August

  • A Personal Career Journey – Pt. 4
  • A Personal Career Journey – Pt. 3
  • A Personal Career Journey – Pt. 2
  • A Personal Career Journey
  • July

  • Free eBook – Postdoctoral Careers in Europe: The United Kingdom
  • Free eBook – Postdoctoral Careers in Europe: Belgium
  • Free eBook – Postdoctoral Careers in Europe: Finland
  • Free eBook – Postdoctoral Careers in Europe: Ireland
  • Free eBook – Postdoctoral Careers in Europe: Norway
  • Free eBook – Postdoctoral Careers in Europe: Sweden
  • Postdoctoral Careers in Europe: Denmark
  • Free eBook – Postdoctoral Careers in Europe: France
  • Free eBook – Postdoctoral Careers in Europe: Netherlands
  • April

  • 5 Reasons why you should attend Careers in Asia 2019
  • March

  • Choosing a PhD Supervisor
  • In-depth Research
  • February

  • Finding Your Thesis
  • Let your CV show your potential
  • Deciding to Apply for a PhD
  • HE Recruitment 2018 Highlights
  • January

  • Life as a Graduate: 6 tips for getting ‘the job’ when you are underqualified
  • 2018

    December

  • Learning Physics and Equality while watching Bonanza: the Albert Michelson episode
  • November

  • Research in foreign Lands: Part II- the cherishable experience
  • Why leave the U.S. for grad school?
  • Why working in a university is the best!
  • Research in foreign lands: Part I- the challenges
  • October

  • Moving to a New City and Finding a Job: What to Know
  • What you need to know before you get that first lectureship position
  • August

  • Could you write for us?
  • The Art of the Alumni Profile
  • Now that you’re qualified, so what?
  • July

  • Career story – Denise from London
  • Martina Mallett, Business Development Manager, Europe, at jobs.ac.uk
  • jobs.ac.uk Goes Global
  • June

  • How to create a stand-out academic CV
  • May

  • UK academic considering a move to Australia?
  • Reflections on a happy ending: 1. A question of perspective (Brief Encounter, 1945, dir. David Lean)
  • “What for?”: when languages were an unpopular option
  • How to stay motivated during your job search
  • April

  • Managing The Transition From Master’s to PhD – Top Ten Tips
  • #jobsQ Live Video Hangout: Postgraduate Options – Is a PhD for me?
  • PhD Vlog: Doing a PhD in Denmark
  • Should I Do A PhD?
  • A Guide to Doing a PhD in Germany
  • 10 Career Paths for PhDs
  • March

  • 10 facts you didn’t know about jobs.ac.uk
  • Try our fun football quiz
  • jobs.ac.uk grows rapidly
  • jobs.ac.uk – How it all began
  • Interview with Andrew Gordon, previous director of jobs.ac.uk
  • Quiz
  • Is working in the Higher Education sector right for you?
  • Getting over post-interview blues
  • February

  • How understanding your strengths and weaknesses could propel your academic career to new heights.
  • Two Jobs, One Mission: The Rise in Student Mental Health
  • Creating a Personal Touch in Student Communications Campaigns: The Dean’s List
  • How your Academic Training Equips you for Success in a Wide Variety of Careers
  • January

  • Every day is a school day: 3 things I learned when working in HE
  • 9 tips to follow for a safer job search
  • A PhD brings valued skills to non-academic roles, but “beware of the boffin tag”
  • How my PhD years ‘jet packed’ my personal development in unexpected ways
  • 2017

    November

  • Competencies needed for collaboration
  • Considering an Academic Career in China Q&A Summary
  • October

  • How photography helped me during my PhD
  • September

  • How Academics are Helping Entrepreneurs Help Academics
  • Starting a PhD: 10 questions you daren’t ask, answered…
  • Histories of cinema: Japanese acrobats, Fred dancing upside down and Joseph flying across the room. The camera never lies?
  • The pros and cons of doing a PhD in Brazil
  • 5 small things that make a difference to digital contact
  • August

  • Benefits and concerns of using social media as an academic
  • The Academic Imposter
  • A blueprint for a more joined-up approach to research communication
  • How can we help academic colleagues to stay healthy? Experience & ideas
  • July

  • Successful Grant Application, Submitted PGCert portfolio
  • The Best Book of Quotes: Famous Quotes for Life and Happiness
  • #whywedoresearch: more than a hashtag, it is the foundation of a way of life
  • Playing the research game
  • Governing research evidence: What you need to know about the big evidence debate
  • How “inter” do you go in your research? A look at interdisciplinary research
  • Well into your PhD? 5 helpful career planning topics
  • June

  • How I found out, how NOT to be an academic
  • Making connections
  • Mental Health in Academia: Lets talk about it.
  • Keep on running: what inspires PhD students to become runners?
  • My Alternative Academic (Alt-ac) Career – Guest blogger, Dr Rob Edwards
  • Evidence is power and its communication must be governed
  • May

  • Life after PhD: a satisfying career outside of academia?
  • Surveying the (un)known prospect
  • Are you procrastinating? Or opening yourself to inspiration…
  • jobs.ac.uk’s Jane Kingman wins Unsung Hero award
  • How I stay inspired, for effective visual communication of research
  • Academic articles and non-academic inspiration
  • Memorable Images
  • Research communication – are we getting it right when targeting policy and practice?
  • April

  • Impact: how cultural factors vary its definition
  • Relocation, relocation, relocation: The art of moving
  • Working 5 to 9: how many hours are enough?
  • A Critical Ka-Pow – Researchers in popular culture
  • Use your time wisely, automate routine tasks
  • March

  • Imagine that!
  • HE Recruitment 2017 Highlights
  • No Good Advice
  • A Winter’s Tale – from PhD to post-doc
  • Top 10 recruiter locations across various disciplines
  • Post-PhD transitions – interview with Dr Ruth Price, Senior Consultant
  • Mobility, Freedom and the 4-Hour Work Week
  • HE Recruitment 2017: Session Showcase, CIPD
  • Have academic career goals, will travel
  • HE Recruitment 2017: Session Showcase – Search Higher
  • The Academic Art of Minimalism
  • Mary Bennet’s Hollywood ending: a feminist ending?
  • HE Recruitment 2017: Session Showcase – Enhance Media
  • The Best Teacher I Know: David Attenborough
  • Consultancy reflections: An interview with Rob Johnson, founder of Research Consulting, Part 2
  • Heaven Sent/Hell Bent – new managers, existing staff and the issues in higher education
  • February

  • Creating a company: An interview with Rob Johnson, founder of Research Consulting, Part 1
  • Habits and routines that help maximise focus
  • Communication, Communication, Communication
  • An Update (or, I’ve been away because…)
  • Institutional Signature Pedagogy – Like Avocado on Toast?
  • Before you say Yes: 3 questions to ask yourself (And I’m not talking about marriage!)
  • HE Recruitment 2017 unveils session details
  • Making research space & building a career: the postdoc stage
  • HE Recruitment 2017 announce their keynote speakers
  • Your alternative academic identity: learning the rules?
  • Things to consider before you go on the distance learning road
  • January

  • Building a bigger and better picture of academic recruitment and career pathways
  • Being on the receiving end of “no”. How do you handle it?
  • Your personal social media strategy, or Knowing when to say ‘No’ to social media
  • A Good Spanish Book
  • Insights from the Research Impact Summit, an interview with Dr Tamika Heiden
  • What I learned when I took on too much: I am not a PhD superhero
  • Recruitment Methods and Effectiveness – Introduction
  • ‘I’m busy’ part 2: it’s a problem
  • Finding Your People: Mentors, Collaborators, and Guardian Angels
  • ‘I’m busy’ part 1: good kinds of busy
  • A Welcoming and Efficient Student Helpdesk
  • Saying No: Why it’s important to be brave
  • 2016

    December

  • Histories of cinema: When Georges Mélies discovered special effects
  • Training in equality and diversity: the pilot and the nurse
  • Rethinking leave – to stop or not to stop this holiday season
  • jobs.ac.uk hosted recruitment event
  • Competencies needed for research collaboration: an infographic
  • And the Next Step?
  • Why researchers might want a way out of precarity
  • US Doctorate Earners and Their Earning Potential: What Do We Know?
  • Glass Ceilings and Revolving Doors: a Crisis for European Doctoral Candidates
  • Revisiting and reviving “homeless” journal papers
  • UK & Ireland HE Recruitment Trends 2016
  • Going viral: 3 tips to help you through
  • Self-reflexivity as good academic practice
  • November

  • How to create a professional persona for academic consultancy
  • What do you want to be when you grow up?
  • The importance of language skill certificate in CV (extra points!)
  • Interview with Dr Olivia Kirtley: Dismantling presumption
  • History? Not without language!
  • How to write in a language that is not your own
  • Got (or getting) your PhD? Great! But, how likely are you to land an academic job?
  • Everyone has their own career path: our blog series & the essence of post-phd careers
  • Starting blogging
  • Writing through a fear of writing – featuring 3 most helpful steps.
  • I got a PhD: Now what? Discovering the post-phd career landscape
  • Dealing with hard times (paper rejection)
  • Employer perspectives of PhD graduates
  • Career pathways following doctoral research
  • Career pathways post-PhD – the impact of increased competition
  • Tricks from an expert: how to identify your skills and boost your confidence
  • Finding a postdoctoral position (for a non-UK/EU Citizen)
  • October

  • A Post PhD Career Journey in 3 Parts. Part Three: Looking for Opportunity
  • Histories of cinema: When censorship backfires. Watching Gilda in dictatorship Spain
  • New podcasts on the blog – accounts of post-PhD transitions
  • A PhD is a rosette, not a career path
  • A Post PhD Career Journey in 3 Parts. Part Two: The Marginal (Career) Advantage
  • A Post-PhD Career Journey in 3 Parts. Part One: Significant Moments
  • How could I have prepared better for post-PhD life?
  • Top Tips for the First Year of a PhD
  • Guest post: From PhD to career librarian: a bold leap or a natural step?
  • How do you make a portfolio career work for you?
  • September

  • 3 ways to save time when building an academic Twitter profile
  • An Englishman’s Decade in Japan
  • Peer Review Week 2016: reviews in the open
  • Confidence in personal and professional life, PhD edition
  • Am I a PhD ECR? What is an Early Career Researcher?
  • On small goodnesses
  • Antibacterial Resistance: We Are Already at War
  • Surviving PhD Progression
  • Talking about unemployed PhDs
  • Collaborating on an international scale: our tips
  • August

  • Brexit and the UK researcher: an uncertain path
  • Histories of cinema: Spoilers alert! The first audiences of Psycho (1960)
  • The Value of Professional Services
  • Task management and the art of the to do list
  • 5 LinkedIn tips for early career researchers
  • Claimed from Stationers’ Hall
  • Tips and tricks for managing new clients as an academic consultant (Part 2 of 2)
  • Tips and tricks for managing new clients as an academic consultant (Part 1 of 2)
  • Grant-Writing – the Realities of Postdoc Research!
  • Me and Sacheen – in the social media spotlight
  • An Update: Publications and Presentations
  • Quiet Rebellion
  • Ten steps to get started on Twitter as an academic: part 2
  • Ten steps to get started on Twitter as an academic: part 1
  • On being “overqualified” on the job market
  • Interdisciplinary and international research: a local case
  • Being a Music Librarian: Never a Typical Day
  • Lessons Learnt from my PhD (So Far)…
  • Cracking the code for effective research communication
  • 10 ways consultancy differs to research
  • July

  • Three tips for Twitter as a (shy) newcomer
  • Facing your worst funding proposal fears
  • 5 Interview Question Suggestions for Faculty-Research Positions
  • Histories of cinema: Yakima Canutt, the chariot race and the blind spot
  • Ideal jobs and the post-PhD hunt
  • 8 attributes of great consultants
  • The role of the media in Muslim-majority countries
  • 10 actions that will help you get ready for consultancy work
  • Leading a group to collaborate creatively
  • Keeping a record of achievements: why it’s important to remember the things you forgot
  • Reference Management Software Zotero
  • Confession: I Didn’t Prepare For my Viva!
  • Confidence and post-PhD transitions
  • The Comeback Kid: Returning to research after a career break
  • June

  • Preparing for Academic Job Interviews
  • Dispatches from 9 to 5 or post-PhD myth busting
  • 5 reasons why I read scientific blog posts (or why to blog your science!)
  • Norway series. How to fight off a barbarian invasion!
  • Where next for the career breaks survey?
  • The beautiful game, by the greatest artists in Europe presented by the past masters
  • Informational interviews in the post-PhD job search
  • Follow-up to postgraduate options hangout – Choosing a supervisor
  • What’s your plan?
  • PhD Qualification Vs. Personal Identity: Part One
  • Norway series. Collaboration: a (sixth-century) barbarian invasion?
  • A preview of the career break landscape
  • Follow-up to postgraduate options hangout – Getting references
  • How do you find conferences to attend? Some useful sources
  • Goodbye yellow brick road! Putting the method into teaching research methodology
  • May

  • Career resources for the post-PhD job hunt
  • Being a supervisor – 3 things I’ve learnt
  • Knowledge without borders: Reflections and guidance on entering the world of academic consultancy
  • Funding Applications and Good News
  • National Teachers and Advisers Conference 2016; University of Manchester
  • An interview with Dr Danny Kingsley: Open access & scholarly communication takes collaboration
  • Don’t get mad, get better: A story of receiving peer review comments
  • How to draft a research grant application
  • Ode to parkrun
  • Working at home: where does all the time go? 5 hazards to watch out for!
  • Falling at the Last Hurdle (Dealing with Post-Interview Rejection)
  • Staying in academia: 3 things I find helpful at challenging times
  • I live tweeted, and I liked it.
  • April

  • The Perils of Isolation – Both Social and Academic
  • Job apps? Here’s some help.
  • Zika Virus Might Target Development in Neural Stem Cells
  • Connecting researchers to great opportunities: exploring and expanding your research interests
  • Lifelong academic?
  • Plickers! Engage your students with learning technology
  • 9-Month Viva and Always, Always Expect the Unexpected
  • Rewriting the story of failure
  • Surviving the viva
  • Can collaboration speed-up researcher development?
  • (Academic) Jobseeker, know thyself
  • How do you say “no”? 11 approaches you can try!
  • Failing to be an academic
  • Finding the human in your research idol
  • Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
  • Teamwork: Helping Your Department Colleagues Succeed
  • March

  • What do you need to work freelance? 8 key ingredients!
  • Jobseeker, know thyself
  • 7 ways to make the first move when strengthening your network
  • Writing made social: you don’t have to write alone
  • Life Sciences – Writers Wanted
  • Mentoring and post-PhD transitions
  • Brexit: the multifaceted dimension of its demographic aspect
  • Twitter for academics – my first ever Twitter chat
  • Challenges Outside of PhD Life
  • 12 Things Star Wars Got Wrong About Your PhD!
  • The path to research independence : four tips
  • Securing That Academic Job
  • See our collection of Twitter hashtags for researchers – and add to it
  • Post-PhD job hunt and recruitment agencies
  • Welcome to Job Season!
  • 5 tips for returning to work after a career break
  • How to be an academic rockstar: 5 amazing benefits of collaboration
  • Journal clubs: an interesting tradition
  • February

  • Coaching to support post-PhD journeys
  • Starting to Write the Thesis
  • Paris belonged to me: an homage to Jacques Rivette
  • Is ‘ECR’ fit for purpose in the Humanities?
  • First Day Teaching Syndrome
  • You Don’t Use The Library
  • Using museum collections for academic research
  • Building a picture of the impact of academic career breaks
  • Why have I chosen to focus on home schooling?
  • Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone
  • You Have Office Envy
  • Ex-academic or now me?
  • Finding your humanities PhD project
  • Which English To Teach?
  • Depth versus breadth in research
  • January

  • On serial dating and job interviewing
  • Publishing Costs HOW Much?!
  • Trying to find my voice
  • Writing about my research interest on expressive writing
  • 40% Researcher? Yes, Indeed!
  • You Are A Fraud
  • From A to B via a rather scenic route
  • Knitting, Lunacy Laws and the hunt for Patient Publications: Doing a PhD in the Medical Humanities
  • Interprofessional education – considering the research agenda
  • You Think You Work
  • New Year’s Resolutions for PhD Success
  • Library interactions: An interview with Miggie Pickton
  • The Loch Ness monster, the tooth fairy and work-life balance: Myths we need to get over!
  • Harnessing the power of research for teachers and teacher educators
  • What to do with all that passion?
  • Writing well at work: what I have learned from being a writer
  • Plain speaking and clear understanding: 5 tips for networking face to face
  • What does it take to be a bio-scientist? A personal opinion.
  • Resilience, not resolutions
  • Norway series part II: government policy for the humanities
  • Lessons in herstory: Mary Moffat, explorer of the Kalahari
  • 2015

    December

  • Multidisciplinary research: building a smart, sustainable future or high-technology dead-ends?
  • Academic ‘Resolutions’
  • Dealing with the Darkness: How to find strength in yourself and in others
  • Let’s talk science: tips for sharing your research with colleagues and the public
  • Encouraging shy ESL students out of their shells
  • Seven steps to DIY professional development
  • How to Create an Academic Website for Free! 
  • Tweeting about research and researching about Twitter: a story of collaboration
  • The rush to create networks and the need to create conversation spaces
  • Christmas as a PhD Student
  • Ch-ch-ch-changes
  • Data first: remodelling the digital humanities centre
  • November

  • Rethinking industry dynamics: what’s your velocity regime?
  • Preparing A Cultural Exposition
  • Scientific Outreach: So Many Reasons to Bother
  • MOOC module “How to Survive your PhD” : my reflections at the end
  • The lady archer: from invalidism to the New Woman
  • My First Conference as a PhD Student
  • How to write instructions for others in 9 steps
  • Lessons from the farm: coping with uncertainty in academic life
  • Struggling to Put Pen to Paper
  • Academic Bureaucracy Is Discouraging
  • Top 5 Hashtags for Academic Writing: just in time for #acwrimo!
  • Higher Education and Twitter: Five things we have learned from Tweeting
  • Strengthening research through collaborative partnership
  • Four weeks and a deadline: curiosity, confusion, boredom and love in #survivephd15
  • Settling into PhD Life
  • My Research Strategies
  • Interview with Dr Tim Rudd of Livelab: tips on collaborating with third and public sector organisations
  • Why I have chosen to pursue evolutionary psychology
  • University rankings and research collaboration: interview with Phil Baty
  • My 5 Lessons from the PhD
  • MOOC for Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
  • Interview with the British Psychological Society President Jamie Hacker Hughes
  • October

  • Data-publishing for Better Science
  • Spanish Studies
  • These Wheels Keep On Turning……..
  • Thinking Outside of Your Own Field
  • 5 things to do while job searching
  • Self-doubt, perfectionism and common insecurities during research work
  • Arts and/ or Sciences: how to solve the riddle of the sphinx
  • ‘Upgrading’ to a PhD
  • Coping with uncertainty at work
  • Building and promoting research partnership: interview with Scott Furtwengler
  • Using Technology To Shape Language Teaching
  • In focus: creating collaborative partnerships for international development
  • Everything I did wrong…
  • Do I stay or do I go? leaving academia post-PhD.
  • Researchers are not islands: insights on collaboration
  • Digital identity healthcheck for academics
  • Quick Tips For Teachers
  • At the archives: what’s that scrawl? Tips on reading historical documents
  • Fear and curiosity during your doctorate: weeks 6 & 7 of How to Survive your PhD.
  • Improving Your Spanish Program: Literature
  • Preparing to Start your PhD Journey
  • Biocatalysis: Harnessing the Power of the Enzymes
  • Finally Graduating!
  • Digital Skills: What Are They And How Are Yours?
  • The God Of Languages: The Specialized Native Teacher
  • Academic writing, Frustration and Loneliness: weeks 4 and 5 of How to survive your PhD
  • September

  • How do you measure your social media success? Let’s keep it simple.
  • Technology Tips For Teachers: Projectors And Mobiles In The Class
  • Saying No (Nicely)
  • Introducing Vanessa Lao, Strategic Partnerships Manager at the Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University, Australia
  • A Telegram from the Unconscious: Martin Amis on Creativity and Style
  • Working Class academics in and outside the PhD
  • Improving Your Spanish Language Program: Equatorial Guinea
  • 10 Things you might encounter, when you consult rare documents in an archive
  • The Spanish Titles Of University Expert / Specialist
  • “How to survive your PhD” weeks 2 & 3: growing in confidence
  • Post-PhD comedown
  • Open and digital academics: Twitter hashtags to watch or use
  • Interview With The Fruit Fly Expert
  • Taking part in a MOOC “How to Survive Your PhD” : Getting started.
  • The Importance of a PhD Protocol
  • A scholarly corner of Twitter: 12 broad academic Twitter hashtags
  • Reasons to Blog as a PhD Student
  • 5 Ways A PhD Can Be Useful In A University Support Role
  • Unconventional PhD Career Paths
  • 12 Points to Good Academic Writing
  • August

  • A collaborative working tool called Slack: thoughts on using it
  • 5 Common Regrets of University Graduates
  • Teaching English in England
  • Tweet with a hashtag: 13 tags for new academics!
  • Ribo-T: the protein factory of the future
  • 9-5 vs PhD Life
  • Two Sides to the Same Coin
  • The Value Of Lurking
  • It Started with a Tweet…
  • Boogie-Woogie Feng Shui
  • Feeling Useful During Your PhD
  • Publish or Perish Post-PhD?
  • Turning forty: the age of reason?
  • How do you run a crowdfunding campaign? 12 Useful tips! (Part 2)
  • Health check your digital identity
  • Let them in: video opens the doors of communication.
  • Writing a Successful PhD Application
  • How do you run a crowdfunding campaign? 12 useful tips! (Part 1)
  • Medical writing – getting to the hard facts
  • Working with challenging or difficult students
  • The negative impact of not teaching about “impact”
  • The negative impact of not teaching about “impact”
  • The Next Big Thing
  • Why choose to digitise? 7 motivations to balance if you’re collaborating.
  • July

  • Our Google Hangout on Research Impact and Public Engagement attracts over 2000 PhD and research students
  • The End of Month 1: How to Combat PhD Fear
  • Conflicts of interest: pedagogy, professional practice and research
  • Considering crowdsourcing in academia: tips on offer
  • Impact, Media and Digital Scholarship
  • Voices of Authority
  • Writing styles: a thorny issue
  • Chemistry: let’s make the public love it!
  • Life after a PhD
  • Building research partnerships & promoting research: An Interview with Dr. Carlos García Aparicio
  • Spider in the Web
  • The PhD Application Process
  • Starting a Writing Group
  • Everyone’s digitizing: here is one eminent new example!
  • Tools for using Twitter: 5 things they might help with
  • Lady Librarian becomes Revalidated Fellow
  • Conference report: 50th Anniversary International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo 2015
  • Managing Your Research Material with Evernote
  • My Shelfie! A real-life research workspace
  • Where to Study for your PhD?
  • The art of planning in science
  • Fishing in a smaller pond: looking for jobs online
  • Week 1 as a PhD Student
  • Using Reflective Writing in your Work
  • Why I moved to the ‘Dark Side’ : Part two, leaving academia behind
  • June

  • Money Money Money
  • Infographic feature: Can I copy it? Copyright consciousness!
  • Movements of Fire and Shadow
  • Cruel Summer
  • Developing A Career In Outdoor Activities
  • Academics, Are You Linked In?
  • 3 Education Startups for ELT Teachers
  • The planning fallacy: Underestimating your task completion times
  • The language of life
  • Plato’s Stepchildren
  • How Early Career Researchers Can Make A Case To Be A Digital Academic cont’d
  • Going to the ‘Dark Side’ : Part one, thinking before moving away from academia
  • Developing a Career in a Rural Area
  • Creative Writing Studies: The Rise of a New Discipline
  • The Menagerie, Part II
  • How Early Career Researchers Can Make A Case To Be A Digital Academic
  • Imposter Syndrome and how to (begin to) overcome it
  • A Quick Hello & What’s To Come.
  • Rewards of a role writing research funding bids. An interview with Lachlan Smith
  • Working on a Science Park
  • Writing effective minutes
  • The day Ray Bradbury died
  • Why do academics blog?
  • Contracts, Costings, Collaboration and the Juggling Act as Research Administrator. An interview with Mary Caspillo-Brewer
  • Standing at the career crossroads
  • Learning about the role of a research manager. An interview with Alex Challis
  • May

  • The Menagerie, Part I
  • The Future of Interdisciplinarity with Professor Brian Cox
  • The Problem of ‘Fitting In’
  • Writing effective agendas
  • How To Prevent Social Media Overload
  • Beginning blogging – Emma Cragg writes about how to combat your fears
  • A Guide To Developing Your Online Presence.
  • On Prose Style: Simplicity Versus Sesquipedalianism
  • To intervene or not to intervene: that is the question
  • April

  • What’s videography got to do with it? Classicist and guest vlogger Emma Cole shares her advice on academic videos
  • Supporting research students as an administrator
  • 4 Things to Help Novice Users of Virtual Meeting Tools: Making Skype Meetings Run Smoothly
  • Court Martial: Dealing with Negativity
  • March

  • Ten conference evaluation questions: choosing a conference to present at
  • You are more than the sum of your thesis
  • Going digital: How to communicate and showcase your skills
  • Making Your Mark: Academia, Social Media and Employability
  • The Digital Academic: Blogging tips from Thesis Whisperer Inger Mewburn
  • The Deadly Years; or, I’ll live – and I’ll enjoy it!
  • Conference preparations: the jet set life of a researcher
  • Why #ELTChat is great. A celebration of a community
  • October 2015 – only 7 months away!
  • Transdisciplinary Facilitators
  • Post-PhD life – where do you go from here?
  • International Women’s Day: The importance of girls’ education
  • Patterns of Force: Doing things you didn’t expect, beyond the boundaries you set yourself
  • February

  • We Who Are About To….
  • Conferences at their best! Tips from our Social Sciences Correspondent
  • Graduate tips on securing that first job
  • What I’ve learnt from my PhD
  • All kinds of conferences: A Brief Typology from our Arts & Humanities Correspondent
  • Getting your Writing Back
  • Fahrenheit 451: The day they destroyed the library
  • Conference slides: the art of show and tell
  • Preparing for your PhD viva
  • Guest post: Abigail Mottershaw shares lessons on impact & online presence for academics
  • If you build it, they will come
  • Please Take My Business Card . . . making connections at conferences
  • A researcher works at a library
  • January

  • Curating online content : productivity tools for researchers who use social media and web materials
  • Guest post: Dr Marianne Baker’s summary of “How to be a successful digital academic”, an online event
  • Think Negative! Reframing Positivethink…
  • Steps in science communication
  • Reviewing
  • New Year, new experiences? Teaching in the wake of Charlie Hebdo
  • Time-management strategies for job-hunters
  • A social scientist’s adventures in the “Land of Techno”. A story of trepidation, #collaboration & self-education.
  • Keeping Track of Applications and Related Materials
  • I’m a job seeker. Find me a vacancy now.
  • Building A Career-Search Network As A New Graduate
  • Supporting The Role Of Academics As An Administrator
  • Keeping Your Energy Levels High During Busy Work Periods
  • “The computer is not working”: being let down by technology
  • Being Online
  • New Year’s Resolutions?
  • Motivation, motivation, motivation!
  • 2014

    December

  • Let us welcome the New Year
  • Evolution in Vehicular Monitoring
  • A round-up of the UK’s REF2014 on social media. How do you measure research?
  • Torment of Tantalus
  • A lecture is a performance: do not forget your audience
  • How Much Can You Save Teaching in Japan: A Cost Breakdown
  • Moving On
  • November

  • #AcWriMo. Shut up and write! By our Social Sciences Correspondent
  • The Parliament of Dreams
  • Storing references : tools and tips
  • #AcWriMo. Why I don’t write at home, from our Social Science correspondent
  • Finishing your PhD
  • #AcWriMo. Why I write best at home, from our Science Correspondent
  • Making the most of conferences
  • Do You Practise What You Preach?
  • What to do when you don’t know what to do!
  • Warning: Shift work may be ageing!
  • Getting your CV ready for employment after graduating
  • Motivate yourself to keep writing : ten tips on staying positive and keeping going
  • Giving your First Conference Paper
  • Four infographics with tips on academic writing
  • October

  • Masters Application Tips & Advice Ebook
  • Tips for presenting and publishing collaborative research, from a scientist
  • Not for school, but for life
  • SON- Self Organizing Networks
  • Reach for the stars (but don’t be dazzled by the brightest)
  • Four issues when undertaking collaborative projects
  • Networking for People Who Hate Networking
  • How to start a research collaboration
  • Making research collaborations: building relationships
  • You Only Have to Offer: How I came to author Two Encyclopedia Articles
  • Writing Pact: Are you in?
  • September

  • Blogging about staff development: a cautionary tale
  • Teaching Difficulty
  • Introducing our new PhD portal
  • In Praise of Colleagues
  • The Devil in the Dark
  • August

  • Back to School
  • The Wanderground
  • 10 (non techy) tips for studying music production!
  • Do Blogs and Social Media Matter? What Makes a Good Blog?
  • Results day … and what the hell is clearing?
  • 4 Steps to Make Your Graduate CV ‘Job Ready’!
  • July

  • What To Do Whilst Waiting
  • The summer research To Do list
  • Writers Needed To Produce Content About Working In China
  • Suddenly, there’s a lot to do!
  • Applying for a lecturing post (and getting yourself an interview)
  • Reaching the finish line
  • CVs: Tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth!
  • June

  • Bitter Sweet Rejection
  • Making Networking Work for You
  • Forget graduate schemes, work for an SME!
  • Interference Management in LTE
  • The case of why we even bother about the ambiguous universe
  • Intersections in Real Time
  • Co-authoring with students
  • It’s never OK to kiss the interviewer (Free Prize Draw)
  • No one ever dreams of working in the insurance industry…
  • Presenting your PhD
  • Are universities failing students?
  • May

  • Alternative Realities for PhD Graduates
  • Can you ever stop learning? : The clay jug
  • It’s down to YOU – creating your own professional development!
  • Ballad of Fallen Angels
  • 6 tips to give you the best start at university
  • Reflective Journals and E-Portfolios
  • Using film in the language class
  • Dealing with The Interview Daemon.
  • Graduating soon? LinkedIn should be your new best friend
  • Applying for a management position
  • Balance of Terror*
  • Staying motivated throughout your PhD
  • April

  • 10 steps to managing recruitment more strategically
  • Support Staff Role In HE
  • How to Help your Boomerang Kids
  • What are the benefits of being a PhD student?
  • How to get paid experience through Task Squad
  • Beware the predatory publisher
  • March

  • What is a Learning Technologist?
  • Why bother teaching?
  • Make It So
  • Do not panic. It is just grammar
  • Using your birthday to reflect on the past
  • Imaging and Video Coding
  • Keeping calm and carrying on!
  • CV writing for every occasion
  • 5 ways to avoid age discrimination
  • Laser Communication in Deep Space
  • Teaching Artist?
  • A Taste of Armageddon*
  • How to survive your PhD
  • The hunt for literature
  • What happens when everything goes wrong with your teaching?
  • How not to tell someone ‘no’ on LinkedIn
  • February

  • Nick Clegg urges young people to ignore tuition fee myths
  • Two New MAs in Town: Creative Writing at Cambridge, Self-publishing at University of Central Lancashire
  • Latin lingua viva est: why the Classics are necessary
  • The good and the bad of a PhD
  • Becoming an associate lecturer
  • A pessimist is never disappointed…
  • ‘Golden hello’ for maths graduates!
  • Want to survive the job hunt? Learn to manage your expectations
  • Top questions you should ask a university Applicant Tracking System provider
  • Are we on the verge of an ‘entry level’ digital jobs boom?
  • 10 steps to help you choose the right jobs board for your vacancy
  • January

  • Breaking the publishing barrier
  • The benefits and challenges of mobility
  • How Much Can You Save Teaching in Korea: A Cost Breakdown
  • Ties of Blood and Water
  • Commuting my way to course leader
  • Cycles of learning and development, all year round…
  • It’s Only a Paper Moon
  • 10 Things You Will Think During Your PhD
  • How far Is Too Far In An Interview?
  • 2013

    December

  • Hidden Cosmos Portals
  • Tangles with the Self: What It Takes To Be a Writer (Part 2)
  • The E. T. Bryant Memorial Prize (IAML UK and Ireland)
  • I tried to think of a funny title for this one, but I couldn’t: Humour and job seeking.
  • The case of Publication Bias in Evidence Based Medicine
  • Back in the lab: molecular self-assembly on surfaces
  • Career spotlight: Working as a podiatrist
  • 3 reasons why now is a great time to look for a job!
  • How to write killer job titles for jobs boards
  • Confidence: the essential requirement for tenure?
  • November

  • Think before mentioning an employer on Twitter
  • Tangles with the Self: What It Takes To Be a Writer
  • The Gamesters of Triskelion
  • 5 great reasons to recruit staff in December
  • Taking a fresh look at past papers
  • Blog your way to career success
  • The hectic life of a PhD student
  • 5 steps to successful recruitment planning
  • Finishing the job: how can we help students turn a thesis into publications?
  • Presenting yourself, not just your presentation…
  • Cast your (job search) net wider!
  • What I’ve learnt from my PhD so far
  • Gunpowder, Reason and Plot: Malcolm Bradbury and the Creative Writing Revolution
  • A step back gives a wider view
  • Is early retirement good for you?
  • How to write a recruitment blog for your careers website
  • October

  • Reflective Writing about Libraries Fostering Creativity
  • 5 things you should do to get the most out of your internship
  • Finishing that first postdoc: a critical moment
  • Impact, inspiration and interdisciplinarity: interview with Charlotte Mathieson
  • Volunteering: for love not money
  • Returning to Science: on Ada Lovelace day
  • To ink or not to ink, that is the question!
  • Giving back during your PhD
  • No, square pegs don’t fit into round holes: Choose a different shaped hole rather than ‘reshape your edges’.
  • Exploding Grandmothers and Other First Impressions
  • Returning to the job market
  • A Fine Frenzy Rolling: Two Parts to the Creative Process
  • Positive PhD thinking!
  • Free report: recruitment effectiveness for universities 2013
  • 20 reasons why every EFL learner should have an iPad
  • Communicating science
  • LinkedIn: The right way to connect
  • How to be a good English teacher: Advice from a Japanese learner of English
  • September

  • Ding Dong The Booker Prize is Dead
  • Most of what you say doesn’t count….
  • Augmented reality for university recruitment?
  • PhD time management!
  • Making Changes
  • Clinical Leadership in the NHS : An interview with Bernie Divall
  • Pirates Wright and Walsh: Under the Book Detective’s Magnifying Glass
  • When should I include interests on a CV?
  • Being Critical, Being Creative: What does Shakespeare mean to an Indian Teenager?
  • Can Creative Writing be Taught?
  • Turnabout Intruder
  • Money, Papers, and People: An interview with Ian Hancox and Luke Rochford
  • Are we any good at career planning?
  • Kickstarting your own ELT publication
  • Likability – is it the X Factor at interview?
  • My Top Ten Tips for doing a PHD
  • The case of genetic lottery: Why no one is better than anyone else
  • My job search is bad enough – Get off my back!
  • What are your weaknesses?
  • Going Beyond the Comfort Zone
  • Interview Question: Tell me about yourself
  • Creative Writing in the Academy
  • Leaving A Job After A Few Weeks
  • The 4 guiding principles of success
  • The case of the Mirror Neurons that shaped our civilization
  • August

  • Taking a language learning card game to market: An interview with Sean Anderson
  • What do you want your obituary to say about you?
  • Spectrum Crowding
  • Odd interview questions and how to cope with them!
  • 4 Sure fire signs that you’ve done well in an interview!
  • The Icarus Factor
  • July

  • Resilience is Futile?
  • Career Profiles – worth the effort of writing one?
  • Aphorisms of English Language Teaching
  • The career successes of Narcissists
  • Encounter at Farpoint: An Interview with an Old Friend
  • Recruiters: Use them, but don’t abuse them!
  • Impact at Interviews
  • The Corporate Humanist: Why This Degree?
  • Feeling the Sunday night blues
  • jobs.ac.uk attracts nearly 1.4 million unique browsers in latest ABC audit – up 91% from 2012
  • 4% drop in graduate vacancies!
  • Help Your Teen Get A Summer Job
  • Losing our trousers: The prevalence of American English in TEFL
  • June

  • Taking a gap year: Benefits and pitfalls
  • What’s stopping you from changing career?
  • Anxiety of Job Hunting – can it be an advantage?
  • For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky*
  • The shotgun approach
  • So, what makes the difference from us to those people ‘happy’ in their career?
  • The Devil in the Detail – What’s in a Name?
  • Top Ten iOS Apps for EFL Educators
  • Job hunting tips from Forbes recruiters
  • May

  • Did I mention it also travels in time?
  • Do you have FOMO? Its “fear of missing out”!
  • My rejection letters are piling up, what should I do?
  • What to wear to interviews?
  • Have you got cover letters covered?
  • Rise in UK job vacancies over past six months – are we all ok now?
  • Over qualified for jobs?
  • I hate people – what jobs can I do?
  • Can evolutionary psychology help us at interview?
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Unemployment
  • Things not to add to your CV
  • Always known what you wanted to do when you grew up?
  • Infographic: What do jobseekers really think?
  • Where do we fit in?
  • So….. tell me about yourself…..
  • Faking it – Projecting Confidence at Interview
  • Things a Viking Taught Me
  • Career Choice and Values
  • Progression in HE for Support Staff
  • Recruitment networking event, Wednesday 17th July 2013
  • Bagpipes in the LIBRARY?
  • Sending subtle hints that you want a new job
  • [Free report] jobs.ac.uk recruitment trends survey results
  • How to make a CV stand out?
  • Fantastic free websites for learners of English
  • Jenny Walklate, Job Snob for Hire
  • Job hunting. Career change. Kelly Clarkson.
  • CV or Resume – which should you go for?
  • April

  • The Jaws that Bite: Or, On Rejection.
  • Qualities in support staff
  • Higher Education Admin Support
  • March

  • 30 Years Teaching English in Japan: An Interview with Marc Helgesen (Part 1)
  • 30 Years Teaching English in Japan: An interview with Marc Helgesen (Part 2)
  • Using infographics for recruitment
  • Does having a PhD change anything?
  • February

  • New arrivals to the jobs.ac.uk team
  • jobs.ac.uk attend ‘Online Recruitment: Year Ahead’ conference
  • 2012

    October

  • Feeling English, Thinking Teaching: Language Workshops in Calcutta
  • September

  • Teaching English at Japanese Universities
  • July

  • View from Calcutta: Indian universities and the UK
  • Interview with Marcos Benevides: Extensive Reading (Part 2)
  • June

  • Interview with Marcos Benevides: Extensive Reading (Part 1)
  • ELT and Technology in Japan: The vision versus the reality
  • May

  • Doing an MA in TEFL/TESL
  • A TEFL box of tricks
  • April

  • In two minds …
  • March

  • Writing a Thesis Plan
  • Being a female English teacher in Japan
  • February

  • Let’s Talk: Dr. Ritu Mahendru on Networking and Cultural Mobility
  • Are You A Digital Researcher?
  • English: The World Language (Infographic)
  • January

  • Creative Writing: blogging about it
  • Online Recruitment 2012: The Year Ahead
  • Teaching at Masters Level
  • NUS survey on financial support
  • Things I wish I had known at the start of my PhD
  • Why is English the dominant world language?
  • New Year, New Challenges?
  • 2011

    December

  • End of term at last!
  • American History Reading Group
  • The Value of PhD Assessments #2
  • November

  • Pre Eventual System
  • Teaching English off the beaten track – an EFL teacher in Belarus
  • ‘Essentials of Effective Online Recruitment’ seminar
  • American history scholarship: the European connection
  • The value of PhD Assessments
  • Choosing language role models carefully
  • Pros and cons of working outside America
  • Rejection and Re-motivation
  • October

  • Myths of American History
  • After your PhD: Making Good Publication Decisions
  • Teaching American History with Visual Sources
  • Using students’ L1 in the English language classroom
  • African History portal
  • Promoting speaking fluency
  • QR Codes for recruitment
  • Create a Top TEFL CV
  • The PhD Student – Supervisor Relationship
  • Thinking Ahead: Transferable Skills
  • GPS and LightSquared Coexistence
  • September

  • Large Academic Conferences: should I go?
  • Interview: Teaching Young Learners of English in Sendai (Part 1)
  • Time Management I: The Pomodoro Technique
  • UARS Scenario
  • Teaching English in Korea; a 5 minute interview
  • Teaching censorship: a useful resource
  • Reference management and citation software
  • Turning your TEFL gap year into a TEFL career
  • Getting Constructive PhD Feedback
  • LIPC
  • Voices in Fiction part 2
  • August

  • After the Riots
  • The experience of non-whites in Europe
  • Minstrels, metaphors and social media
  • English teaching in Japan: A Japanese perspective (Part 2)
  • English teaching in Japan: A Japanese perspective (Part 1)
  • Freelance TEFL opportunities; a refreshing alternative to teaching classes of kids
  • The Final Year Panic
  • The role of native-speaker teachers in English language education
  • New Economic History?
  • Mystery or Misery – Weather Devices
  • Teaching English in Japan in 2011
  • Going Up! The Elevator Pitch
  • Survey courses: what is the priority?
  • Leaving Work to Start a PhD
  • July

  • Research and Teaching: the Stretch
  • The Overactive Imagination of a Doctoral Researcher
  • Google+: What is it & can it be used for recruitment?
  • Let the conferencing begin!
  • Taking a Break From Your PhD
  • Running your own live literature night – part two
  • Running your own live literature night – part one
  • History or American Studies?
  • Integrating Research and Teaching
  • Termed as Scintillation
  • Interview advice – tell them the truth they want to hear
  • To Post-doc or not to Post-doc: is this a question?
  • June

  • If Only I’d Known! Three PhD Tips
  • Best History Sites internet hub
  • Let’s Talk: Shaping Your Thesis for Publication
  • Teaching Lynching using the Visual Image
  • What Makes a PhD?
  • Hero Worship
  • Let’s Talk: Meeting Adrian Holliday
  • How many hours does it take to get a PhD?
  • Interview tips webinar
  • The Hybrid
  • Linking teaching and research – a Nexus
  • May

  • World building with Mind Mapping
  • Surviving a Restructure
  • Working as an ALT in Japan – 5 Tips
  • Building a Learning and Teaching Strategy
  • Colonial America: the forgotten Americanists?
  • Do I need a degree to work in Higher Education?
  • Academic Conferences: Small versus Big
  • Let’s Talk: Staying Earthed
  • End of my fourth year…what have I learned?!
  • Life after a PhD
  • American History Teaching Resource
  • The PhD Application Handbook
  • Exams: the joy of invigilation and marking!
  • The value of networking
  • April

  • Private tutoring opportunities
  • RFID Positive and Negative Influence
  • Quantum Future
  • Disposable PhD?
  • Want to Blog for jobs.ac.uk?
  • Research and work/life balance
  • Higher Education on a global scale
  • March

  • Keeping up to date
  • Funding challenges in the arts
  • Pregnancy during your PhD
  • Dealing with Change at Work
  • How to end your career!
  • What does it mean to be a PhD student?
  • Becoming a better teacher: plagiarism
  • Funding Travel During Your PhD
  • February

  • Building a portfolio academic career
  • Dealing with Monotony in your PhD
  • Why Study for a PhD?
  • Balancing research and teaching
  • Travel During Your PhD
  • A good leader: could it be you?
  • Becoming a lecturer: is it worth it?!
  • Diving In
  • January

  • Improving the treatment of PhD students
  • How to Communicate Your PhD Research
  • Promotion: achieving it in today’s climate
  • PhD: Doctor of Procrastination
  • Is academia still a viable career?
  • New Year, PhD?
  • Careers Resolutions: plans for 2011
  • 2010

    December

  • Last week of term: time to take stock!
  • Finding Inspiration
  • November

  • Staying Motivated
  • jobs.ac.uk announce new ‘UK Immigration & International Recruitment’ workshop
  • Academic career path: where are you going?
  • Marking and improving your time management
  • Surviving at conferences…
  • Getting your CV out there!
  • Love your PhD
  • Reading week: another name for half-term?
  • October

  • Taking a sideways move to another university
  • Using The Big Three Social Networks to Recruit
  • A day in the life of a PhD student
  • Universities: the future?
  • Advantages and disadvantages of ‘portfolio careers’
  • Starting out
  • Welcoming new students, and making sure we keep them
  • September

  • Time management: is missing a deadline ever OK?
  • Induction Week: and we’re off!
  • Countdown to the start of term!
  • Time management: the art of saying ‘no’!
  • August

  • Interviews: advice from the other side of the desk!
  • Humanities research: pros and cons of online!
  • The Managed University
  • July

  • Importance of student exchanges
  • Presentation skills
  • Should we publish less or more?
  • Conferences: how to choose between them
  • No, I’m not on holiday for the next 2 months!
  • June

  • Teaching as a postgraduate
  • May

  • Conference papers and presenting a good one
  • Students do less work shock!
  • The importance of being organised!
  • April

  • Merit pay: a good idea?
  • 2 Years in TEFL: What I’ve learnt
  • From Kansai to Hokkaido
  • Types of TEFL Employer
  • Moving House in Japan
  • Teaching English at Schools in Japan
  • How to Teach One-to-one English Lessons
  • How To Teach Unplugged – The Naked English Teacher
  • March

  • Research: the joy and the pain!
  • Interview with Hokkaido Insider (Part 2)
  • Teaching in Japan: Interview with Hokkaido Insider (Part 1)
  • Marking: the worst part of the job?
  • The effect of the financial crisis on English Language Teaching
  • Motivation in the ESL Classroom
  • ESL English Teacher Resume Tips
  • How to Teach Fluency in English – Part 2
  • Jobs outside university
  • How to Teach Fluency in English
  • February

  • Interview with a Teacher – Kevin Burns (Part 1)
  • Japanese Income Tax Return
  • Commuting: make the most of your time
  • Admissions tutor job: what does it involve?
  • TEFL Interview: Let’s Japan on… Japan
  • Private Higher Education
  • TEFL Interview: Let’s Japan on Eikaiwa
  • What NOT to say in an interview
  • The virtues of planning ahead!
  • ESL Textbooks and useless English
  • January

  • The Culture of Teaching in Japan
  • ‘Everything is a project’
  • Want to blog for jobs.ac.uk?
  • TEFL Cover Letter and Template
  • Teaching Diary: Day 2
  • How can a temp job boost your career prospects?
  • Teaching Diary: Day 1
  • How to save a bad lesson
  • Japan, GEOS, and other news
  • Teaching techniques: Eliciting
  • Teaching English in 2010: Goals
  • 2009

    December

  • The Top 5 Things about Teaching in Japan
  • The role of Language Assistant (ALT)
  • Research experience before PhD
  • How do you teach English?
  • Distance Learning Post-graduate TEFL Qualifications
  • Academics do not just teach
  • Studying for an MA TESOL
  • Teaching at a University Japan
  • The other parts of the interview – Part III
  • Some comments on vivas
  • UKBA announces important changes to Resident Labour Market Test
  • November

  • TEFL in Demand
  • Enterprise Week came and went
  • Teaching and research: how to juggle both!
  • End of the road
  • Countdown timers
  • Life in Japan
  • Research during term time: is it possible?
  • TEFL Transferable Skills
  • Micromanaging supervisors
  • English Methods: Task Based Teaching
  • Life After TEFL: Jobs back home
  • Habilitation
  • What interview panels are looking for
  • How to survive a restructuring
  • Are employees costing organisations £1.3 billion in personal social networking?
  • October

  • Eikaiwa – English Schools in Japan
  • Are you monitoring your online employer brand?
  • Work-Life Balance for Teachers
  • Japanese Working Visa and Health Insurance
  • What is a seminar?
  • Quasi-academic jobs
  • Can I Get a TEFL Job in China?
  • Teaching in Japan – Festivals and Special Days
  • Full Economic Costing
  • English as a Second Language and EFL Lesson Plans
  • TEFL Teaching Tips (TTTs)
  • Bid-writing support
  • TEFL Resources for Dictating
  • September

  • TEFL Drilling Exercises
  • Freshers Week
  • Some Things You Can’t Do Without in TEFL
  • Working in Higher Education: all you need to know – Part II
  • Advice on starting a new academic job
  • IELTS: What is it? Why should you care?
  • Working in Higher Education: all you need to know – Part I
  • Teaching English in Africa… for money
  • TEFL Jobs and English Language Teaching in Africa
  • Statistics in demand
  • TOEIC Listening and Reading Test
  • ESL Games and Activities
  • August

  • How’s Your Culture? TEFL Classroom Rules
  • Need a job? It’s not too late!
  • TEFL Jobs: What You Need to Know
  • The challenges of living and working abroad – Part II
  • Teaching English Part-Time in Japan
  • Efficient literature overview
  • Clearing week
  • The challenges of living and working abroad- Part I
  • Teaching in Japan: How Much Will I Earn? Part 2
  • How to get a job: good advice!
  • Increasing Your Confidence
  • July

  • Problems with ELT Textbooks
  • The sum is greater than the parts
  • How to Use TTT Effectively
  • Teacher Talking Time (TTT) in ELT
  • Keeping track of latest research
  • UK jobs market shows signs of revival
  • Summer Teaching in Japan
  • Moving Abroad for TEFL
  • PhDs in the insurance industry
  • What Can Universities Do to Help Students Out of the Recession?
  • Networking online: how to start?
  • TEFL Homework Assignments
  • Teaching Mixed Level TEFL Classes
  • June

  • TEFL Professional Development
  • Publishing before the PhD
  • TEFL Job Interview Questions
  • Rise in online recruitment
  • TEFL How To: Japanese Working Visa
  • Introduction to Entrepreneurship for Year 6 Students – Part I
  • Portfolio careers: pros and cons
  • It’s easy being green: Using your green agenda for employee engagement
  • TEFL Communicative Lessons
  • The Challenge for Higher Education – John Cridland’s thoughts on the future of Higher Education
  • Overcoming Shyness and Reluctance to Speak in TEFL
  • PhD examination
  • Part time jobs during a PhD
  • Error Correction: How To
  • May

  • Error Correction: Why and When?
  • Drafting theses and papers
  • Advantage of posters
  • UPA Conference 2009: Enhancing the value of HR in HE
  • Postdoc advice 2
  • Diploma in Teaching English = $$$
  • Postdoc Advice
  • Marking season is upon us!
  • Should I Continue Teaching?
  • Mathematics and Art
  • English Reading Skills
  • Wireless Presenter
  • Teaching English and Using English
  • Invigiliation duties
  • Teaching English – Some Refreshing Ideas
  • April

  • When Students Don’t Understand
  • Getting Your Students to Speak English
  • AAIM 2009
  • EFL Teacher Time Management
  • PhD Comics
  • Advice for TEFL Beginners
  • Desk-bound research: a good thing or not?
  • EFL Teacher Interview
  • ResearchChannel.org
  • Researcher’s Bible: psychological hurdles
  • Turing Award 2008
  • TEFL Listening Activities
  • March

  • Digital Marketing Careers Advice
  • Legislation on workplace disputes changing
  • Twitter: what is it and how can you use it for recruitment
  • Four golden rules for scientists
  • Teaching English to Absolute Beginners
  • TEFL Lesson Plans: Top Tips
  • Lack of job security: PhD students reject academia
  • Financial computing
  • How to Teach Vocabulary
  • EFL Teachers, "Be Ambitious!"
  • Writing a book while teaching: is it possible?
  • Teaching Resources: Top Websites for TEFL
  • Problem Finding and the Multidisciplinary Mind
  • February

  • How can you have the perfect recruitment website?
  • The Power of Graphs
  • Top Tips: Using the Internet to teach TEFL
  • Interview With a TEFLer: Alex Case (Part I)
  • What is a Good TEFL Student?
  • Good Mathematics
  • What is a good TEFL teacher?
  • Jobseeking tips for those who already have a job
  • Blum’s Advice (part 2)
  • What Teaching in Japan is Really Like
  • Blum’s Advice
  • Do you have any hobbies? What to include on application forms!
  • TEFL Certificate Courses – Buyer Beware
  • Using Music in the TEFL Classroom
  • Snow stops play, almost
  • jobs.ac.uk snow how it’s done
  • Giving Instructions
  • AAMAS 2009
  • Commuting…a reassessment.
  • January

  • Learn from Hollywood: Using DVDs in TEFL
  • RAE 2008: A look at theoretical computer science
  • Using Skype to Teach TEFL
  • Research: role of problem solving
  • A Day in the Life of a TEFL Teacher
  • Research: role of problem creating
  • Role-Plays in the TEFL Classroom
  • Making the most of a PhD
  • Using Textbooks
  • Fluency or accuracy?
  • Videolectures.net
  • 5 Reasons to TEFL in 2009
  • Grant Applications
  • TEFL Job Interview Tips: Part 2
  • 2008

    December

  • Eric Schmidt, Google and Technology Policy
  • TEFL Job Interview Tips: Part 1
  • Consultancy Roles for PhD’s
  • TEFL Job Interviews
  • TEFL: The Importance of Feedback
  • Funny English
  • TEFL in the Middle East
  • TEFL: The Importance of Writing
  • The Language Learning Process
  • CIPD Web 2.0 Seminar with jobs.ac.uk
  • A new digital library
  • November

  • Economics and Computer Science
  • Teaching Grammar
  • Knowing Everything About Nothing!
  • TEFL Beginners: Where to go?
  • BCTCS
  • In It For The Money
  • PhD Proposals
  • Interview With a TEFLer
  • TEFL: Coping with Homesickness
  • Algorithmic Decision Theory
  • Does Age Matter in TEFL?
  • How to Have a Bad Research Career
  • Conversation Classes
  • Credit Crunch
  • Academic buzzword no. 1 : skills!
  • October

  • A Humanities Perspective
  • TEFL: Needs Analysis
  • Research Communities
  • It’s official, I’m no longer a probationer!
  • PhD Dissertation
  • Technical Presentations
  • A Day in the Life…
  • Opportunities in Singapore
  • Why Do People Learn English?
  • TEFL Country Profile: Spain
  • Interview advice…an alternative
  • "Mail Goggles" and getting adverts right first time…
  • For Those About to Teach, We Salute You
  • Backing Up Work
  • Seminars and tutorials: getting students talking!
  • TEFL Country Profile: France
  • September

  • Modeling Systems
  • Research leave: a difficult decision
  • What TEFL Needs From You
  • Hamming’s advice: need for change
  • The start of my second year!
  • Teaching in Thailand: Do I Need a Qualification?
  • Elements of Style
  • 5 Thing I Love About TEFL
  • Problem Solving & Research: Advice from Descartes
  • The TEFL Ten Commandments for Teachers (Part 2): Thou Shalt Not Teach Bad Grammar
  • Timely Communication
  • Finding a job online is mind-numbing
  • Impact of government policies: some thoughts!
  • Migrant workers – have you seen the TV adverts?
  • Refereeing
  • TEFL Lessons: Games (Part 2)
  • How to Write Mathematics
  • The TEFL Teacher’s Ten Commandments
  • The minefield of research funding
  • August

  • Funding For Travel
  • The First Year is Always the Toughest
  • The Ten Commandments (for teachers), Part II
  • TEFL Lessons: Games
  • The Ten Commandments (for teachers), Part I
  • Rate my professors controversy!
  • 8 Steps to TEFL Glory!
  • Vitae
  • Letters to a Young Mathematician
  • Contributing to ‘clearing’
  • Conference Update
  • Higher Education Teaching Certification
  • Putting Things into Perspective
  • What to Look For in an Employer
  • Greetings from the library!
  • Academic Posters
  • Teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP)
  • Teaching Conversational English
  • Thesis Writing: Benefits of Latex
  • Academic Writing
  • Technology in the Classroom: part 2
  • July

  • Thank-you Notes
  • Moving House
  • TEFL Employers: Bigger vs. Smaller
  • The job hunting roller coaster
  • I Hate Commuting
  • Student Issues
  • Privatisation in HE: interesting developments
  • Conference Organization – Part I
  • A Mixed Bag
  • Relocating Is Not Easy
  • It’s that time again: graduation!
  • Investment Banking for PhDs – Part II
  • Investment Banking for PhDs – Part I
  • TOEIC, or not TOEIC?
  • EPSRC Funding Applications
  • Academic Jobs: Disincentives
  • Academic job: Incentives
  • The Challenge of Teaching English
  • Real jobseekers’ problems!
  • Accept Me, Accept Me Not: Applying for PhDs
  • June

  • End of year report
  • TEFL Career Development: DELTA
  • Would you lie in a job interview?
  • Is a TEFL qualification necessary?
  • TEFL Country Profile: China
  • Third Stream: what does it mean for you?
  • The Joys of TEFL in Japan
  • TEFL Business English
  • Private Lessons or School Teaching?
  • Career building: set up your own networks
  • May

  • How will the rising cost of fuel affect recruitment?
  • Is TEFL for you?
  • TEFL Lesson Plans
  • Using TEFL to get where you want to be
  • Marking season well under-way!
  • April

  • Job market challenges no. 389: the academic couple!
  • Normal service will be resumed soon
  • Job application forms take too long to complete
  • Personality tests for job applicants are a waste of time
  • March

  • The death of newspapers?
  • Jobseekers…I can’t be that bad surely?!
  • Replies, rejection letters – simply common courtesy?
  • February

  • Butcher, baker, candlestick maker?
  • Recruitment advertising workshops – Manchester and Birmingham
  • Use your email signature block to drive applicants to your recruitment site
  • Informal contact? Always use it!
  • A – A to Z of recruitment and HR
  • Is your CV a work of fiction?!
  • January

  • What you can learn from Australians searching for jobs
  • Lecturing
  • 2007

    October

  • Digital Masterclass on PR and legal issues of Web 2.0 at MMU
  • UK online recruitment advertising spend increases – again
  • University of Nottingham HR win award for e-recruitment
  • Career building while at the coal-face
  • Collecting email addresses from your vacancy pages
  • September

  • What job seekers look for in job adverts
  • August

  • How candidates can spoil your Applicant Tracking System
  • July

  • That mythical quiet period….?
  • June

  • Attracting passive candidates – Part one – What are they?
  • May

  • Commuting: how far is too far?
  • 2005

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