Academic vs. Non-Academic Applications

While an interview will help to decide whether you get the job you applied for, it is the application letters and CV's that decide whether you will have an interview at all. In my previous post I wrote about applying for jobs within academia but I realised that most of the advice contained in that article could be equally well applied to both academic and non-academic applications. For example, preparing early, securing multiple referees, removing embarassing pictures from Facebook etc. So what is the difference between an academic and non-academic job application other than who you send the paperwork to? On a simple level you are going to want to emphasise your publication record a lot more in an academic job application. Unless you are applying for a research or theoretician position in an organisation that also publishes a lot then you probably don't want to provide such a... read more