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We here at HigherEdJobs appreciate the efforts it takes to be successful in your job search. We have compiled some original and/or exclusive articles below that we feel will be practical and inspirational during this process. As always, we appreciate the privilege of helping you achieve your goals.

  • Five Reflections for the Skyping Employer - Career Tools Article, February 2013
    by Matt Trainum
    There are few items as crucial to a successful organization as hiring the right people. The proper talent assembled around the table can make or break any effort. And organizations would be foolish not to deploy a range of helpful tactics in their efforts to bring on the best people possible. Hence the increasing prevalence of video-call interviews (i.e., Skype interviews) for everything from interns to vice presidents.
  • A Student Veteran's Partnership for Perseverance - Career Tools Article, December 2012
    by Justin Zackal
    The feedback from last month's HigherEd Careers Interview, "Compound to Campus: Transitioning from Military to Academia," struck a chord with many, especially those who work with student veterans at college and universities. But one response in particular is worth sharing. And it's from none other than the subject of the interview, retired Lt. Col. C Andrew Griffin, who is the director of military and veterans affairs at Northern Arizona University.
  • Which Range Do You Want to Call Home? - Career Tools Article, December 2012
    by Peter Weddle
    Recent research from the National Employment Law Project contained a sobering finding. A majority of the jobs lost in the last recession were in the middle range of wages, while most of the new jobs added in the recovery have been in the lower range. This situation seems unlikely to change for the foreseeable future. It is your new normal, which means you have to ask yourself, "Which range do you want to call home?"
  • Don't Look for a Job, Look for Respect - Career Tools Article, November 2012
    by Peter Weddle
    These days, job seekers face not one but two equally difficult challenges. Not only do they have to find a decent job, but they have to find a decent employer, as well. A decent job may remove them from the ranks of the unemployed, but only a decent employer can ensure they stay there.
  • Healthcare Costs for Higher Ed Employees are Increasing at a Lower Rate - Career Tools Article, August 2012
    by Justin Zackal
    Rising costs of higher education and healthcare are critical issues, especially during this presidential election year. These topics intersect as they pertain to the healthcare benefits received by employees at colleges and universities. So how exactly are higher education professionals faring?
  • Is the World Smaller? The Need for International Education - HigherEd Careers Interview, July 2012   
    by Andrew Hibel
    Many can argue that a global experience strengthens an education. Through international education, students can grow personally and professionally by learning to appreciate and embrace differences while exploring key professional components of their field. Read more on this topic in this month's HigherEd Careers Interview.
  • Death to Educational Tax Incentives? - Career Tools Article, June 2012
    by Rachel Fishman
    By 2018, nearly two-thirds of American jobs will require a postsecondary credential. While our economic success as a nation depends on getting millions more people to and through college, college has never been so expensive. As prices go up and state support dwindles, students are forced to bear a larger share of college costs. Instead of shoring up the resources meant to help low-income students, the federal government is pouring more money into financial aid programs that disproportionately help middle- and upper-income students who would have gone to college anyway.
  • Culture Change for Learning - Author In Residence, May 2012
    by Richard P. Keeling and Richard H. Hersh
    Today's crisis in the quality of learning in higher education is fundamentally a problem in culture: the lack of strength in -- and in too many cases, the complete absence of -- a serious culture of teaching and learning on campus.
  • Job Search Outside the Box - Career Tools Article, March 2012
    by Peter Weddle
    New research to be published shortly in Psychological Science reveals that the connection between our minds and bodies is much stronger than previously known. The best way to be more creative in a job search, therefore, is to behave the way we want to think.