Professor Adele Ladkin, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Professor Adele Ladkin, Professor and Associate Dean (Administration), Hong Kong Polytechnic University Professor Adele Ladkin has just returned from two years in Hong Kong, where she worked as Professor and Associate Dean (Administration) in the School of Hotel and Tourism Management (SHTM) at the Hong Kong Polytechnic…>
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5 Tips for Selling Yourself When Applying for Jobs
‘Unique Selling Point’ (or USP) is a marketing idea developed to help people in business improve their sales. As a job seeker, you also have something to sell: YOURSELF! By developing your USPs learn how to sell yourself when applying for a job and stand out from the crowd. These five tips will help you…>
How to use Guest Lecturer Jobs to Raise your Profile
As well as teaching at your own institution there are many ways that you can use your skills as a lecturer to enhance your reputation as a scholar, to help you to build your career profile and maybe even to earn more money as well. Why would I be a guest lecturer? The REF,…>
Understanding a Job Advert: What is an Informal Contact?
Many job adverts, although not all, list the name of an informal contact. This is the name and email address or phone number of a member of the academic staff who can be very useful to you as a jobseeker and can help you put together a winning application. But who are they? An informal…>
English Lecturer at the University of Qatar
David Bartsch originally comes from America, but he is now working in Qatar, which is situated in the Persian Gulf area of the Middle East, with Saudi Arabia to the south. Qatar’s economy has flourished in the last fifteen years due to its rich reserves of gas and oil, and residents now enjoy the second-highest…>
Human Resources Adviser at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
by Sarah Marten Dorette Morgan spent six months during 2009 at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand undertaking an exchange visit in the Human Resources department where she worked as a Human Resources Adviser. Dorette’s usual job is Personnel Manager at the University of Bristol, working with the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry….>
Tourism Lecturer/Coordinator of Post Graduate Studies for the Institute for Tourism Studies in China
Dr Julie Whitfield is currently Lecturer in Events Management in the School of Services Management at Bournemouth University. She previously worked as a Tourism Lecturer and Coordinator of Post Graduate Studies at the Institute for Tourism Studies (IFT) in Macau, SAR, China. Macau lies on the western side of the Pearl River Delta and is…>
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Ayo Wahlberg is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Copenhagen in the Department of Anthropology. The University of Copenhagen is the largest university in Denmark, with 37,000 students and 7,000 staff. Prior to moving to Denmark Ayo worked for six years at the London School of Economics and Political Science and University College…>
PhD Student in Molecular Neuroscience at Muenster University in Germany
by Sarah Marten Shweta Gaikwad is undertaking a PhD in Molecular Neuroscience at the University of Muenster in Germany with Professor Markus Missler. She moved to Germany in 2009, having achieved a distinction in her MRes degree in Neuroscience at Nottingham Trent University. This is not Shweta’s first visit to Germany – in 2006…>
Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Psychology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Juliane Degner Juliane Degner works at the University of Amsterdam as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Psychology. Juliane is a German national, having previously worked in universities in Germany and Belgium before moving to the Netherlands two years ago. The University of Amsterdam is one of the largest universities in Europe…>