Faced with decreasing state and federal government support, the University of Montana in Missoula this week began considering several cost-cutting measures, including a four-day week for students and employees. Students and faculty interviewed by the local newspaper generally support the idea, but some were still worried about what comes next. The… Read More
03/12/2010: Please be advised that this grant opportunity is now closed. Earlier this month, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti, killing more than 150,000 people in the capitol of Port-au-Prince and leaving many more injured and missing. Among those affected by the disaster are students from Haiti at American colleges and universities who are… Read More
In 2003-2005, Dick van Vlooten, a Dutch management consultant, wrote a series for Science’s Next Wave (the predecessor to Science Careers), where he drew lessons for job-hunters about networking from social science research. One of van Vlooten’s columns discussed the need to build open networks, where you break out of your usual comfort… Read More
More than 70% of employers say they are not receiving enough applications from doctoral graduates. That is the finding of a new report, “Recruiting Researchers: Survey of Employer Practice 2009,” by Vitae, the U.K.-funded career development organization for doctorate holders and postdocs. “What we are looking for is first class br… Read More
On Monday, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) — Uncle Sam’s human resources department — unveiled a new Web site and slicker search engine for jobs in the federal government. The site, called USAJOBS, gives visitors a simple search window to start but more powerful tools just beneath the surface. The USAJOBS home… Read More
Last week I blogged PiT’s Part 1: Money. PiT has now posted Part 2: Stuff New/Prospective TT Faculty Need to Know. Part 2: Negotiating PiT writes, sagely, The most important thing is to get everything in writing. Don’t take the Chair’s or the Dean’s word for it that you’ll get a summer salary or that… Read More
For recent college graduates, finding a job at any time is difficult, since they often lack experience outside the classroom — a situation made worse by the current tough job market. The trick for recent grads is to find entry-level jobs, which can lead off professional careers but normally require little more than a solid… Read More
A common tip offered to job interviewees is to send a thank-you letter to the hiring manager soon after the interview session. Catherine Jones in the Job Search Secrets blog now tells why the thank-you letter is a good idea and offers suggestions on what should go in it. Jones says the thank-you letter will… Read More
Each year during the last week in April, more than 12,000 members of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) gather in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for their week-long annual meeting. If you ask any of the attendees what they do, they’ll tell you that they’re “visual scientists.” But if you dig dee… Read More
