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How Your Poster Can Get You a Job
Why do so many postgraduates treat the production of a poster as a necessary chore? For some I expect they see posters as a distraction from the serious business of doing their research, whilst others just can't see how it is relevant to them. Rather like a 13 year old saying "what is the point of learning algebra, I'll never use it". Doing a great poster WILL help you to get a better job after you graduate, and this is why. Whether you are pursuing an academic career or plan to enter the commercial market, ultimately your decision to undertake a postgraduate degree was almost certainly related to your future career path. Even if you didn't realise it at the time. Everything you do during your postgraduate degree has the potential to increase your future job prospects, from teaching opportunities, networks you form and the experience of project management you acquire. All of ... read more
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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
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- Academic vs. Non-Academic Applications
- Networking Event Advice
- Staying in Academia for the Prestige?
- Presenting at job interviews
- That Time of Year Again
- The PhD - Well worth the effort!
- Changing Courses - Changing Ambitions
- Postgraduate Career Options Part 1 - The Commercial Sector
- Career Options for Postgraduates - Part 2 - The Public Sector
- Career Options for Postgraduates – Part 3 – Become an Academic
- Lost in the woods - Planning an effective job search
- What Companies Want From Postgraduates
- First Impressions Count - Preparing for an interview
- Employer concerns about postgraduate applications
- To research or not to research – is that a question?
- The Spectre of ‘Over qualification’
- Life after a PhD?
- Advice worth listening to!
- Effective Networking Top Tips