An essential guide covering interpreting job adverts, tailoring applications and interview tips
This ebook will help you to become more attractive to employers when applying for an academic job.
Ebooks and Toolkits
Career Development Toolkit for Higher Education Professionals
This Career Development Toolkit contains Interactive Templates and Activities to Reinvigorate your Career Careers in Higher Education (HE) are changing rapidly as institutions adapt to a global marketplace for students, and as the political and economic landscape becomes more challenging. Traditional career structures are fast disappearing and new areas of…>
21st Century Job Skills To Improve Your Resume
Everyone knows that the resume is the first impression you make when you apply for a job. This is why it is important that you make it appealing for the recruiter by including relevant experience and job skills that will make your application stand out among others. In 2016, the…>
The Digital Academic
In this ebook, you will find out how becoming a Digital Academic can be a powerful tool that can potentially shape discussions in higher education and help you become a thought leader.
PhD employability: Career pathways and recruiter insights
PhD Employability and post-doctoral pathways have been hot topics within research/academic circles for some time now. It is well understood that the ever-growing number of PhD qualified candidates can no longer expect to take the traditional academic route. Academic job markets in many research-intensive countries are becoming saturated. Over the…>
Competencies needed for collaboration
Use our decision tree to find out what competencies are needed and how they can be developed at each stage in the collaboration process. Our top tips for successful collaborations across disciplinary and geographic boundaries are: Understand the characteristics of collaboration – formal and informal and identify which you seek…>
Making Academic Collaboration Work
In their 2012 paper, ‘The how and why of academic collaboration: disciplinary differences and policy implications’, Lewis, Ross and Holden argued that there was a useful distinction to be made between collaboration (lowercase c) and Collaboration (capital C). The idea is that, whether we recognize it formally or not, almost…>
The immigration toolkit for international PhD students
Immigration adviser Jo Holliday explores the options for PhD students from outside the European Union who want to stay in the UK to look for work, start work or set up in business. These include some of the better known routes under the UK Points Based System (PBS) as well…>
Digital identity health check for academics
There are many benefits of having an online profile as an academic and this ebook will guide you through how to perform a ‘health check’ on your own digital presence. Digital tools and social media offer new channels to enhance your work and its reach. You can: Make new connections…>
A Practical Guide to Planning an Academic or Research Career
If you are enjoying doing independent research during your undergraduate career, you might consider staying on at university to do a master’s and then a PhD.