teaching Archive
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Job seekers 6: Requesting and using references
Requesting and using references If you have paid careful heed to this advice through your academic years, you stand a good chance that an honest, unbiased reference will be complimentary […]
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Job seekers 5: Choosing who to ask for a reference
Choosing who to ask: the “good” reference A professor may not be in a particularly good position to give a meaningful evaluation for jobs, unless you have done work with […]
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Job seekers 4: Make a good impression
Make a good impression while you are a student Many of the issues that affect the quality of the reference you will get depend on how you govern yourself over […]
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Job seekers 3: Understand what a “good” reference is
Understand what a “good” reference is There is no such thing as a reference that assures that you will be offered a job or admission to a program. Employers may […]
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Job-seekers 2: The purpose of a reference
Understand the purpose of a reference “A leopard does not change his spots.” Most people believe that people can evolve and grow but do not change entirely because their basic […]
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Job-seekers 1: Getting professor references
Getting references from professors for employment, graduate studies, and scholarships Students approaching graduation are usually heading in one of two directions: work or post-graduate studies. They often look to their […]
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Job-seekers 6: Preparing the reference
Preparing the reference to help you If you have prepared well, you have done excellent work and gone above and beyond to distinguish yourself in reliability, quality, and ethics in […]
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Equity
Human Factors Engineering is about improving the match between people and the technology and environment around them so that both well-being and performance are improved. Safety and comfort are often […]
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Teaching
As Labour Day approaches, thoughts turn to teaching. There are those who think research is what academics really prefer to do, that research entails hiding in the lab or library […]
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