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Your Digital Footprint and How to Audit it

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With a digital footprint audit, you gain complete insight into what information is in the digital domain about you. You can assess what prospective employers will see and discover. You can take steps to mitigate any negative effects. A personal digital audit is how you do this.

Writing Scientific Papers

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Writing scientific papers for publication in academic journals is something you’re going to have to do during an academic career.  Being faced with a lab book full of results and a blank screen is challenging and for many researchers, this can be compounded by English not being their first language. So where do you start?…>

What Will Education Look Like When It’s All Over?

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With coronavirus, we are living in strange and worrying times. We don’t know how long this will last, but we know that it will pass and education will resume. However, to what extent things will be the same and return to ‘normal’ is a matter of some debate. The current crisis is likely to accelerate…>

Gaining New Skills And Knowledge During Lockdown

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Recruiters are still sifting through applications and CVs during the lockdown, so now is a really good time to learn new skills to give your job application or CV some extra sparkle. We’re not talking about teaching yourself how to turn out the perfect soufflé or learn to tango (although these are great skills to…>

What Happens Next?

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What happens next? Everything is in state of flux and uncertainty. Nothing’s what we’re used to. Our routines haven’t just been broken; they’ve been shattered into a thousand different pieces and no-one seems to know how to put them back together again… yet.

CV Advice Webinar

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Following a successful series of career advice webinars the team at jobs.ac.uk hosted a CV Advice webinar. Listen to our panellists as they discuss CV advice and tips for how to effectively write a CV for different job types.