Applications and CVs
Career gaps: state them briefly and move on, because silence invites worse guesses
An unexplained gap is filled in by the reader, usually less favourably than the truth.
Applications and CVs
Academic CVs, cover letters and fellowship applications for international audiences.
Applications and CVs
Applications and CVs
The teaching statement: one concrete example beats three paragraphs of philosophy
Committees read many teaching statements and remember the ones with something specific in them.
Applications and CVs
Early career funding: start with the small schemes, and read a funded application
A funding record is built the same way a publication record is — from small items first.
Applications and CVs
Interview questions: four of them come up almost every time
The predictable questions are the ones candidates most often answer vaguely.
Applications and CVs
The research statement: a programme with a direction, not a list of projects
Committees are looking for a trajectory they can imagine funding for ten years.
Applications and CVs
The international CV: conventions differ by country, and the differences matter
A CV that is standard in one country can look wrong or even inappropriate in another.
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