FemaleScienceProfessor

Telling people (by letter, e-mail, or voice) that they are not getting a position for which they applied, or are not even being considered ...

The tale of a rescinded-offer of a faculty position, owing to an email from the woman offered the job to the department re. the terms of ...

Question from a reader: In your experience in faculty search committees, with respect to hiring an assistant professor, are postdoc pos...

A reader asks the perennial painful questions about why others were interviewed for a tenure-track faculty position and not them, despite t...

And speaking of job ads (as I was in some posts last week), have you ever seen an ad for a faculty position, research scientist, or postdoc...

This is a title I have used before (in 2007!) for a totally unrelated post , but I am going to make use of it again today for another post ...

If you have ever applied for a faculty position or postdoc, or at least looked at the ads and thought about possible future applications, h...

In Scientopia , I discuss (and, as always, invite comments, hoping for a wide variety of them) a reader's question about whether/how to...

This late entry delves into an academic niche that was not explored in the recent Cover Letter Contest. It did not make it into yesterday...

One more Cover Letter entry (I think), and then the voting will commence , tomorrowish. Apparently this is a slightly modified version of ...

Submitted by longtime reader Eli, with a link to a blog that posted this before: This one was "sent" ht...

The strange thing is, I think I got this same e-mail, or one very much like it, and I think I am in a different field from Mark P, the p...

My favorite part of this Cover Letter entry is the very last line, below the signature, but there are other gems in here. ...

The competition continues to be fierce for the Most Obnoxious Cover Letter possible. Here is another contender: Dear Search Committee,...

How many different ways are there to write an obnoxious Cover Letter? There are an infinite variety of ways, but some themes are becoming ...

Has anyone else gotten one like this? I have, unfortunately, although it wasn't in the cover letter, it was in follow-up corresponde...

Another entry in the Cover Letter contest; this one nicely captures the phenomenon of "I am going to collaborate with Professors X, Z...

Another Cover Letter contest entry: Dear Miss FSP and members of the search committee; I am writing to apply for your tenure-tr...

Another entry in The Cover Letter contest: Dear Search Committee: My name is Dr. Joseph von Kool and I am applying for the o...

Another entry in The Cover Letter contest.  Dear Search Committee Chair, I know these letters are usually addressed to a pers...