Summer stretches before us, with all its potential for ... or fine-tuning, your cover letters. For an early-career academic, the primary challenge of writing a cover letter is that you are very ...

Sociologist Andrew Whitehead started a Twitter thread some months ago detailing his take on various stages of the academic job market. For the cover letter, he gave excellent advice. He suggested ...

That isn’t because Ph.D.s have no transferable skills, but because the academic job market has trained you to think and speak very narrowly about your qualifications. Even if the cover letter is ...