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How to Give an Excellent STEM Job Talk

"For Ph.D.s on the job market in the sciences, no element of the hiring process is more important for making or breaking your prospects than the job talk."

Key areas:

"Beyond "know your audience."

Structure your narrative.

Spell out where your scholarship is headed."

Russ E. Carpenter and R. Parrish Waters, Chronicle of Higher Education, August 28, 2019.

Carpenter is a lecturer in Stanford University’s Program in Writing and Rhetoric, and R. Parrish Waters is an assistant professor of biology at the University of Mary Washington.