Let your CV show your potential
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When your CV reaches a prospective employer it needs to stand out against the competition to make it through the first round of rejections. Errors such as spelling mistakes, bad…
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How to create a stand-out academic CV
Kirsty Qualtrough -
Applying for a job is competitive business, especially within the academic arena. Your CV is often the first interaction you have with a potential employer and for this reason it’s…
Do I stay or do I go? leaving academia post-PhD.
Emily Garside -
I’ll let you all into a secret, as much as I am passionate about my PhD as something I wanted and needed to write, I’m not that excited about academic…
Voices of Authority
Jenny Walklate -
I’ve often figured that, given my education, I should be able to sort things out on my own. That I should know – just, instinctively, know – how to do…
Life after a PhD
Emma Monaghan -
Hi, I’m Emma and I’m a PhD survivor! It’s crazy to think that I submitted my PhD thesis nearly 10 months ago now. Let me take you through my post-PhD…
Careers Resolutions: plans for 2011
Catherine Armstrong -
A new year often leads us to make plans to change or develop aspects of our lives and career planning should be no exception. Now is a good time to…
Getting your CV out there!
Catherine Armstrong -
As jobseekers we all know the importance of having a good CV and this site is full of useful advice on how to write one. But it’s also important to…
Career building: set up your own networks
Catherine Armstrong -
I was invited to give a talk last week in Liverpool about how to maximise your chances int he academic job market. Although I am not a trained careers adviser…
Is your CV a work of fiction?!
Catherine Armstrong -
As I now spend many hours on the train each week doing my commute to work, I end up reading all sorts of those free papers that now litter our…
Career building while at the coal-face
Catherine Armstrong -
I have just looked at my jobs.ac.uk wall-planner and realised that I’ve been in my new job for 6 weeks now! My feet have hardly touched the ground what with…
