1. ...assuming that your summary is an accurate reflection of the *CB*article... 2. ...i am shocked that there is no mention of actual skills...most of the traits you mention might be categorized as "intangible"...you need these skills to be a car salesman...not to impugn car sales-persons... 3. ...IMO, an applicant has a better edge if s/he brings something transferrable [marketable!] to the table that no-one else brings to the table... 4. ...often this "something" is one or more quantitative skill... 5. ...or, skill in a fundamental or "hot" area of research w long-term potential... 6. ...or, a grant... 7. ...i am somewhat exercised by your post because, IMO, too many young, especially, female, applicants don't bring much to the table that others don't already know or that cannot be readily duplicated or that is mostly generalist-oriented... 8. ...early-career applicants need to bring something "with legs"...as my Grandmother Jackson used to say...in other words, bring something to the table that can go somewhere [that the department and the college/university and the field want to go]... 9. ...clara b. jones
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Helen Bothwell <helen.bothw...@nau.edu>wrote: > In a recent publication in Conservation Biology, Blickley et al. (2012) > analayzed what skills are necessary for graduate students to be > competitive in > the job market. We discuss these in the Early Career Ecologists blog and > hope > that many of you will find this useful: > > http://earlycareerecologists.wordpress.com/2013/02/12/a-graduate-students- > guide-to-necessary-skills-for-landing-a-job/<http://earlycareerecologists.wordpress.com/2013/02/12/a-graduate-students-guide-to-necessary-skills-for-landing-a-job/> > -- Clara B. Jones Director Mammals and Phenogroups (MaPs) Twitter: http://twitter.com/cbjones1943 Cell: -828-279-4429 Blog Profile: http://www.blogger.com/profile/09089578792549394529 Brief CV: http://vertebratesocialbehavior.blogspot.com/2012/10/clara-b-jones-brief-cv.html "Where no estimate of error of any kind can be made, generalizations about populations from sample data are worthless." Ferguson, 1959
