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4. Mark the following statements as true or false.
Correct those that are false, give your reasons:
a. You should apply to all the ads you see in journals or on job boards.
b. Research history and plan is the very first piece of information your prospective employer will read.
c. When you are waiting to hear from the search committee, phone calls mean bad news, letters mean good news.
d. The main event of the campus visit is a mock class.
e. You should pursue reasons for rejections so that you could learn from failures.
f. The first thing you should negotiate is salaries, as they are controlled by department heads or deans.
g. It is useless to get positive letters from people who know your work, only well-known references can help.
5. Complete the following statements by choosing the best variant.
1. In Curriculum vitae one should……
o describe one’s major research accomplishments.
o describe any courses one taught or for which one served as a teaching assistant.
o concentrate on the professional aspects of one’s life.
o state plainly who one is and what position one is applying for.
2. Before the phone interview it is important…….
1. to give a talk to students and professors.
2. to visit the campus.
3. to teach a mock class.
4. to do research on the school you apply to.
3. The search committee is interested in ……….
- your plans for the future and how your research will fit into the department’s existing research program.
- both your scientific, teaching sides and your personality.
- your approach to teaching.
- what equipment and startup funds you will require.
4. Having made an offer, the school expects your answer within two weeks. This answer to the department should come…
a) before the dean sends a formal letter.
a. at the same time that the dean sends a formal letter.
b. after the dean sends a formal letter.
d) before you negotiate the terms.
5. The author’s main purpose of the article is
I. to explain the reasons as to why your application may be rejected.
II. to give some helpful advice for your campus visit.
III. to tell the story of his job search in the hope it will help other would-be physics professors in their quest.
IV. to outline a fairly standard format of curriculum vitas.
6. Restore the logical order of the main subtopics of this text:
b) The interview process.
c) Different way of finding prospective employers.
d) Rejections and offers.
e) Five primary components of a job application.
f) Potentially helpful pieces of advice for a campus visit.
Language Work
g) Match the English words and word combinations with their Russian equivalents:
| 1. logistics | a) в поисках |
| 2. to err | b) уменьшить |
| 3. to whittle down | c) резюме |
| 4. to answer in succinct terms | d) ошибаться |
| 5. to be critical to | e) быть критичным к |
| 6. curriculum vitae (CV) | f) материально-техническое обеспечение; организация работы |
| 7. in quest of | g) ответить в краткие сроки |
h. What are the nouns connected with the following verbs:
to enroll, to recruit, to accomplish, to reimburse, to target, to outline, to review, to endeavour, to approach, to devise, to request, to evaluate, to anticipate, to negotiate, to erupt, to appreciate, to reject
i) Match the words in the list on the left with their partner on the right:
| 1. cover | a) funds |
| 2. startup | b) proceedings |
| 3. conference | c) letter |
| 4. mock | d) position |
| 5. search | e) class |
| 6. patents | f) pending |
| 7. tenure-track | g) committee |
j) Complete the sentences using the prompts from the box:
| startup funds; endeavor; composure; building a lab from scratch; expenditures; layout; research history and plan; reimbursement; to pursue; to trim |
The academic job search is a monumental ….
… should describe your major research accomplishments as a graduate student and thereafter.
After phone interviews, they further … this list to a group of four to six candidates.
What follows is the general … of the interview trip and some advice I can offer.
Keep any receipts for … like airfare, taxis, hotel, or food, as the school will need these for the ….
Of the things the search committee is interested in is your … before an audience.
My advice would be not … reasons for rejections but to concentrate on the schools that are interested in you.
If you are … try to get enough … to buy equipment, pay for a graduate student or postdoc and pay your summer salary.
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