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Postdoctoral Fellow Real Jobs Salary
in Salary Information
from SalaryList.com
Advice for undergraduates considering graduate school
in Applications: Statements of Purpose, References
by Phil Agre, UCSD.
Faculty Salary Database
in Salary Information
Faculty salaries at public universities assembled by The Collegiate Times at Virginia Tech.
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... " )
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.
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 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. "
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. "
Negotiating Offers for Faculty Positions
in Negotiating Your Salary And Position
A guide from the UNC Office of Postdoctoral Affairs.
Practice GRE General Test
in Graduate Record Examination (GRE)
A complete practice GRE General Test courtesy of ETS. "Contains one full-length paper-based GRE General Test, test-taking strategies, sample verbal and quantitative questions with explanations, sample analytical writing topics, and scored sample essays and reader commentary."
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."
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. "
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.
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.
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!"
Big jobs that pay badly
in Should You Go to Graduate School?
CNN, August 15, 2005. "Most of us work hard for a living. And if we're lucky, we're well compensated for the effort. But there are some jobs you should take only if you really love the work because the investment you make to get the job and the hours you keep aren't necessarily commensurate with what you earn."
CV Introduction
in Resumes and CVs
A guide to CV writing from the Duke University Career Center. Contains several sample CVs.
The Real Science Crisis: Bleak Prospects for Young Researchers
in NIH Funding Crisis
Chronicle of Higher Education , September 2007. "[F]or many of today's graduate students, the future could not look much bleaker. They see long periods of training, a shortage of academic jobs, and intense competition for research grants looming ahead of them. 'They get a sense that this is a really frustrating career path,' says Thomas R. Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health. So although the operating assumption among many academic leaders is that the nation needs more scientists, some of brightest students in the country are demoralized and bypassing scientific careers."
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. "
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."
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. "
Should You Go to Graduate School?: Here are some important questions to consider before you
in Should You Go to Graduate School?
Is graduate school right for you? Here are some serious questions to consider before you make this commitment.
CRA Taulbee Survey
in Salary Information
Salaries of computer science PhDs at PhD-granting departments, courtesy of the ACM.
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"
Salaries for new CalTech PhDs
in Salary Information
Salaries offered to and accepted by CalTech PhDs in academia and industry by discipline. Very interesting info.
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