<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="">Hello! </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Please join us next week for a Cover Letter feedback session <b>for jobs in academia and research</b> (not so much the private sector).</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif">To participate in the cover letter workshop, please complete these 6 steps:</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>1. <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpcu6vqjwtHNPpJXZOEAVLjkCq7tYPKpF7">Register for this workshop</a>.  </b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>Also</b> <font color="#0000ff" style=""><u>please email me to let me know so that I have your email address!</u>!  </font></font></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>2. Find a job ad to work with. It can be a past job ad or current job ad. </b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Search for jobs:</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/search.cfm?JobCat=170&CatName=Geology,%20Earth%20Sciences,%20and%20Oceanography">Higher Ed Jobs</a> (Example: <a href="https://careers.insidehighered.com/jobs/?Keywords=meteorology#browsing">results using the term 'meteorology'</a>)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://jobs.chronicle.com/jobs/science-technology-and-mathematics/?Keywords=atmospheric#browsing">Chronicle for Higher Education jobs board</a> - with keyword 'atmospheric' used (try meteorology, climate, modeling, etc.)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://careers.insidehighered.com/job/2077067/assistant-professor-in-atmospheric-and-climate-science-ai-68923-/">Here's one</a>.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><b><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>3. Research the job and department (and faculty, and university).</b> </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif">- What do they do, what focus do you see, what do they care about, do they have grad students, what are the teaching loads of faculty there?</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif">- How might your field of expertise fit in with what they are looking for?  Could you collaborate with anyone on faculty there?</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><b><font face="verdana, sans-serif">4. Read up on cover letters.</font></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span class="gmail-il" style="">Cover</span> <span class="gmail-il" style="">Letters</span></font></span></p><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://grad.illinois.edu/sites/default/files/pdfs/academiccoverletters.pdf" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="gmail-il">Cover</span> <span class="gmail-il">Letters</span> for Academic Positions</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (a 2-page doc with tips + 2 examples)</span></font></p></li><li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2020/01/22/dos-and-donts-writing-cover-letter-academic-job-market-opinion" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">How to Write a Successful <span class="gmail-il">Cover</span> <span class="gmail-il">Letter</span></span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (Inside Higher Ed, Jan. 22, 2020)</span></font></p></li><li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="text-decoration-line:underline;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://theprofessorisin.com/2016/08/26/why-your-job-cover-letter-sucks/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none">The Professor Is In: Why Your Job <span class="gmail-il">Cover</span> <span class="gmail-il">Letter</span> Sucks and What You Can Do To Fix It</a></font></span></p></li><li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">See slides 6+ onward in the attached PPT file</font></span></p></li></ol><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>5. Write a cover letter for the job that you picked. </b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><font face="verdana, sans-serif">6. Upload your cover letter and the job ad (with your name in the filenames) before the workshop, on March 1st.</font></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Cover-letter-workshop">Upload your files here.</a></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font color="#9900ff">Tip: set up Job Alerts:</font></span><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Create a job alert on these websites, and see what comes into your mailbox. </font></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><a href="https://careers.insidehighered.com/newalert/"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Create a job alert at Inside Higher Ed</font></a></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://jobs.chronicle.com/newalert/">Set up job alerts at the Chronicle for Higher Education website</a></font></div><div class="gmail_default"></div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b> </b></font><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">H<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">ave a good evening! </span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Val</span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"></span>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * <br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Valerie Sloan, Ph.D.</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">NCAR Education & Outreach<br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">National Center for Atmospheric Research</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">P.O. Box 3000</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Boulder, CO 80307-3000</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Office: 303-497-2752</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Email: </span><a href="mailto:vsloan@ucar.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">vsloan@ucar.edu</a></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>