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Postdoctoral Fellow Real Jobs Salary
- from SalaryList.com
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Customized 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... " )
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After the Offer, Before the Deal: Negotiating A First Academic Job
- 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. "
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Advice for undergraduates considering graduate school
- by Phil Agre, UCSD.
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New PhDs.org Graduate School Rankings
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in HomeAll 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.
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Postdocs & students: Private foundations push for higher 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.
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Faculty Salary Database
- Faculty salaries at public universities assembled by The Collegiate Times at Virginia Tech.
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Straight Talk About Graduate School
- Hard-won advice about applying to grad school. The suggested questions to ask are quite good.
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The Basics of Cover Letter Writing
- " '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. "
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Life Sciences Research Foundation
- "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."
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The Big Payoff: Educational Attainment and Synthetic Estimates of Work-Life Earnings
- 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. "
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Negotiating Offers for Faculty Positions
- A guide from the UNC Office of Postdoctoral Affairs.
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Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Cancer Immunology or General Immunology training
- "[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"
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Everything I Wish Somebody Would Have Told Me About Graduate School Admissions
- (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.
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Small Mistakes With Big Consequences
- 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."
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The Commandments of Cover Letter Creation
- 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!"
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Science Salaries by Discipline, 2005
- Salaries of scientists collected from salary.com
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Negotiating Your First Academic Job Offer
- 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. "
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CRA Taulbee Survey
- Salaries of computer science PhDs at PhD-granting departments, courtesy of the ACM.
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Sell Yourself: Guidance for Developing Your Personal Statement for Graduate School Applications
- "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?'"
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NIH Postdoctoral Index of Openings
- Current postdoctoral opportunities at the NIH
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The Basics of Science C.V.'s.
- " 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. "
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Landing an Academic Job: the Process and the Pitfalls
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in HomeGreat advice on the application and interview process in academia from Jon Dantzig, the chair of the faculty recruiting committee at UIUC's Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department.
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Writing the Personal Statement - The OWL at Purdue
- This handout provides information about writing personal statements for academic and other positions.
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Practice GRE General Test
- 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."
