- Not that Kind of Visit: Tales of Preparation for Your First Interview
The day has finally arrived! After all your hard work in screening through potential positions and writing compelling documents, your application has survived the mysterious candidate selection process and you have been selected to interview for a faculty position in Your Favorit...
- How to Keep Your Trainee Tables So Your Grants Manager Will Love You
You may not have trainees yet, but when you do, you’ll need to start keeping track of them. At some point, you’ll be asked to serve as a mentor or otherwise be involved with an institutional training grant. NIH has specific characteristics and outcomes they want to know about y...
- Scientists! Get Those Amazon Prime Deals Now.
My BFF and new to you Edge for Scholars blogger buddy Britteny Ivey is posting about the much awaited Amazon Prime day and how you can make the most of it. Not to detract from her writing, but I thought I’d just drop a few of my favorite things that scientists and people with org...
- Radical Candor: Can It Work for Academics?
Kim Scott is a former Google and Apple alum whose book Radical Candor has been steadily climbing to a top spot in 2017’s business books. Scott has made the internet and talk show rounds after crushing the 20-minute Ted-talk style of presentation (see this one).
Radical Candor ...
- Putting Credit Card Benefits to Use During Business Travel
It’s an all too familiar scenario. You’re on your way home from a week of seminars, conferences and/or teaching when you find out your flight has been delayed or you have a three-hour layover at O'Hare prior to your next flight. These are moments when having great credit card ben...
- A Project Management Approach That Works
Problem: A picture is worth a thousand words….
The Goal: Implement a project management strategy that allows you to easily organize and synthesize data, track progress and strategize future efforts.
Enter my strategy…the Storyboard! I admit it…I am a Storyboard junkie! ...
- Not that Kind of Applicant Review: Tales of Your Application in the Clutches of a Search Committee
After careful document preparation and job selection, you have submitted your application. It will likely be at least two months until you hear anything positive (i.e., an invitation to interview). If it is negative, you may never hear back from the search committee. I am still w...
- Watch Words: Go Slow
Go slow was the theme of a recent visit by Janice L. Gabrilove, MD. She met with K-level faculty in small groups and gave a talk to over 60 mentors, early career faculty, and postdocs at dinner as the honored guest for Visiting Scholar’s Day.
Take the more deliberate route, e...
- Three (Grant) Peeves in a Pod: Write Better
Contorted sentence structure and dense text torture reviewers.1) Give me a break.Try to break up sentence longer than two full lines of text or 30 words. If you already have a semicolon, you know it is two sentences!2) Don’t bury the idea.Unfortunately, to our detriment, often in...
- Not that Kind of Job Applicant: Tales of Self-Discovery in the Job Application Process
With your application documents prepared, it is now time to start applying for your first faculty position. These are some of the resources and strategies we used to find and select job postings. Our cohort includes individuals with and without K awards who all secured tenure tr...
