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Postdoctoral Fellow Real Jobs Salary
in Salary Information
from SalaryList.com
Customized Cover Letters
in Cover Letters
You can generate all your math department cover letters in a snap using Mary Pugh's LaTeX files, now updated for 1997. You'll need to customize the address list. Hint: customize your cover letters by adding a custom content field or two to your address file. (To download this file, right click on the link and select " Save As... " )
After the Offer, Before the Deal: Negotiating A First Academic Job
in Negotiating Your Salary And Position
By Chris M. Golde, Academe , January-February 1999. " What is a fair salary? Can I ask for moving expenses? When can faculty members negotiate reductions in their teaching loads? These are the kinds of questions graduate faculty often hear from their students who have just been offered academic jobs. Besides training young scholars as teachers and researchers, we also mentor them in their search for jobs. As a result, we're expected to know the answers to such questions. In this article, I offer suggestions to the just-appointed faculty member who seeks to be a savvy participant in negotiating the terms of a first job. "
Faculty Salary Database
in Salary Information
Faculty salaries at public universities assembled by The Collegiate Times at Virginia Tech.
Advice for undergraduates considering graduate school
in Applications: Statements of Purpose, References
by Phil Agre, UCSD.
New PhDs.org Graduate School Rankings
in Home
All new rankings of nearly 6000 graduate programs at 418 universities. Rankings include new data from NSF on where recent PhDs got jobs, how they were funded, and more.
Straight Talk About Graduate School
in Choosing a Graduate Program
Hard-won advice about applying to grad school. The suggested questions to ask are quite good.
The Basics of Cover Letter Writing
in Cover Letters
" 'In almost no time we can reject half our applicant pool just by looking at their cover letters,' says Susan Lord, associate professor of electrical engineering at the University of San Diego. "
The Big Payoff: Educational Attainment and Synthetic Estimates of Work-Life Earnings
in Salary Information
US Census, July, 2002. " This report illustrates the economic value of an education, that is, the added value of a high school diploma or college degree. It explores the relationship between educational attainment and earnings and demonstrates how the relationship has changed over the last 25 years. Additionally, it provides, by level of education, synthetic estimates of average total earnings adults are likely to accumulate over the course of their working lives. "
Postdocs & students: Private foundations push for higher postdoc salaries
in Postdoc Salaries
The levels of most postdoc salaries at US biomedical research institutions are set by the National Institutes of Health. But private philanthropies, which consistently claim such stipends are insufficient, have worked to boost these wages by sponsoring studies on salaries and by offering their own grants with higher levels of support.
Life Sciences Research Foundation
in Postdoctoral Fellowships and Jobs
"LSRF awards fellowships across the spectrum of the life sciences: biochemistry; cell, developmental, molecular, plant, structural, organismic population and evolutionary biology; endocrinology; immunology; microbiology; neurobiology; physiology; virology.... Three-year fellowships will be awarded on a competitive basis to graduates of medical and graduate schools in the biological sciences holding M.D., Ph.D., D.V.M. or D.D.S. degrees. Awards will be based solely on the quality of the individual applicant's previous accomplishments, and on the merit of the proposal for postdoctoral research."
Small Mistakes With Big Consequences
in Salary Information
Dave Jensen, ScienceCareers. "It is by reading about other people's successes and failures that you can develop a game plan for the continued management of your career. So, in this month's column, I'd like to use OPE to relate three small job-search mistakes that can have very big consequences."
Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Cancer Immunology or General Immunology training
in Postdoctoral Fellowships and Jobs
"[S]upports qualified young scientists at leading universities and research centers around the world who wish to receive training in cancer immunology or general immunology"
Negotiating Offers for Faculty Positions
in Negotiating Your Salary And Position
A guide from the UNC Office of Postdoctoral Affairs.
NIH Postdoctoral Index of Openings
in Postdoctoral Fellowships and Jobs
Current postdoctoral opportunities at the NIH
Negotiating Your First Academic Job Offer
in Negotiating Your Salary And Position
by Margaret L. Newhouse. " Many first-time academic job candidates assume that, once they receive a job offer, their arduous search is over. In fact, no matter how delighted you are with an offer, it is wise to view it as part of the last stage of the process -- the negotiation stage -- even if you ultimately decide not to negotiate anything. This pamphlet offers some general principles and advice on negotiating academic job offers, particularly initial ones. "
Everything I Wish Somebody Would Have Told Me About Graduate School Admissions
in Applications: Statements of Purpose, References
(and a few things that people did tell me but that I didn't really believe until after it was all over.) by Matt Lepinski.
The Commandments of Cover Letter Creation
in Cover Letters
by Peter Fiske, Science's Next Wave. "I've always hated the term "cover letter." It implies that the letter you send out to accompany your rsum, the opening shot in your job-hunt campaign, is merely "decoration" for your rsum. A good cover letter does far more than just cover: It engages the reader and makes her want to explore your job qualifications more fully. A good cover letter also highlights your qualifications, guides the reader through the most important parts of your work history, and demonstrates your flawless command of the English language. That's a lot to cover in only three paragraphs!"
The Basics of Science C.V.'s.
in Resumes and CVs
" The cover letter and curriculum vitae may well be the two most important documents you will ever write, since they are the first things most academic search committees see. "
Sell Yourself: Guidance for Developing Your Personal Statement for Graduate School Applications
in Applications: Statements of Purpose, References
"Its the night before the application deadline and Jamal has completed all application forms, requested transcripts, and asked for letters of recommendation from his professors and research mentor. One last piece needs his attention, however: the personal statements. One application states, 'Discuss how your past educational, research and/or work experience(s) will contribute to your proposed studies.' Another application asks, 'What are your career goals and how do you see our program supporting your goals?'"
Science Salaries by Discipline, 2005
in Salary Information
Salaries of scientists collected from salary.com
Nine Key Negotiating Points
in Negotiating Your Salary And Position
"Laurie Weingart, a negotiations expert and behavioral analyst, provides advice on nine issues that should be addressed when negotiating a junior faculty position."
Cover Letters for Professional and Faculty Positions
in Cover Letters
"A persuasive cover letter not only answers the questions 'Who are you?' and 'What do you want?' but also convinces the reader that you can exceed the hiring organization/units specific expectations and must be interviewed before you are snagged by a competitor." Tips from the Duke University Career Center
PLoS Computational Biology: Ten Simple Rules for Selecting a Postdoctoral Position
in Choosing a Postdoctoral Position
"You are a PhD candidate and your thesis defense is already in sight. You have decided you would like to continue with a postdoctoral position rather than moving into industry as the next step in your career (that decision should be the subject of another Ten Simple Rules). Further, you already have ideas for the type of research you wish to pursue and perhaps some ideas for specific projects. Here are ten simple rules to help you make the best decisions on a research project and the laboratory in which to carry it out."
CRA Taulbee Survey
in Salary Information
Salaries of computer science PhDs at PhD-granting departments, courtesy of the ACM.
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