- 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...
- 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...
- 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 det...
- 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 t...
- Not that Kind of Summer: Tales of Preparing for Academic Job Season
The time has come. Your training is nearing completion, you have discussed your career plan with your mentor, and now you must apply for your first academic faculty position. Because academic research institutions are closely tied to university and medical school calendars, they ...
- Not that Kind of Career Development Award: Tales of Living with the K99/R00
My previous posts have covered writing career development awards (here), tips for the K99/R00 specifically (here), and the events you await during career development award review (here). In this final post on career development awards, I will address some questions specific for t...
- Not that Kind of Grant Application: Tales of Waiting for Career Development Awards
In my last posts, I covered considerations for writing career development awards, and tips specific to the K99/R00. After submitting my application, I scoured the web for information on what to do next. Alas, more people focused on the submission rather than subsequent steps. Thi...
- Not that Kind of Career Development Award: Tales of Writing the K99/R00
In my last post, I provided some general thoughts and experiences with career development awards, having seen a number of (eventually) successful K awards be submitted. This post covers some specific considerations for writing the K99/R00. These thoughts are based on my experienc...
- Summer Home Improvement? Try the NIH “All About Grants” Podcast
Summer is a great time for home improvement projects. But let’s face it, these projects can be seriously dull. The NIH All About Grants podcast can help you make the best use of your time. The podcast is not flashy, but it is USEFUL. I listened to nearly all of them two y...
