{"id":107,"date":"2021-02-26T17:34:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T17:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/cires-cga\/?p=107"},"modified":"2021-02-26T17:39:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T17:39:58","slug":"cover-letter-writing-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/cires-cga\/2021\/02\/26\/cover-letter-writing-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Letter Writing Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There is a cover letter workshop hosted by NCAR’s Education & Outreach team on March 4th, 9:30 am<\/strong>. To participate in the cover letter workshop, please complete these 6 steps:

1.<\/strong> Register for this workshop. <\/a>
Also please email Valeria Sloan (vsloan@ucar.edu) to let her know so that she has your email address!!<\/span><\/span>

2. Find a job ad to work with. It can be a past job ad or current job ad. <\/strong>Search for jobs:
Higher Ed Jobs<\/a> (Example: results using the term ‘meteorology’<\/a>)

Chronicle for Higher Education jobs board<\/a> – with keyword ‘atmospheric’ used (try meteorology, climate, modeling, etc.)

Here’s one.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Research the job and department (and faculty, and university). <\/strong>
– 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?
– How might your field of expertise fit in with what they are looking for? Could you collaborate with anyone on faculty there?

4. Read up on cover letters.<\/strong>
Cover Letters
1. Cover Letters for Academic Positions<\/a> (a 2-page doc with tips + 2 examples)
2. How to Write a Successful Cover Letter <\/a>(Inside Higher Ed, Jan. 22, 2020)
3. The Professor Is In: Why Your Job Cover Letter Sucks and What You Can Do To Fix It<\/a>
4. See slides 6+ onward in the attached PPT file
<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. Write a cover letter for the job that you picked.<\/strong>
6. Upload your cover letter and the job ad (with your name in the filenames) before the workshop, on March 1st.<\/strong>
Upload your files here.<\/a>
<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tip: set up Job Alerts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Create a job alert on these websites, and see what comes into your mailbox.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Create a job alert at Inside Higher Ed<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Set up job alerts at the Chronicle for Higher Education website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Prior to the event, if you like a bit more information about the job search, CVs vs resumes and Cover Letters, please download the slides below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CVs & Cover Letter Intro Slides<\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a cover letter workshop hosted by NCAR’s Education & Outreach team on March 4th, 9:30 am. To participate in the cover letter workshop, please complete these 6 steps: 1. Register for this workshop. Also please email Valeria Sloan (vsloan@ucar.edu) to let her know so that she has your email address!! 2. Find a… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 18:27:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/cires-cga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/cires-cga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/cires-cga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/cires-cga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/cires-cga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/cires-cga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/cires-cga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/cires-cga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/cires-cga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/cires-cga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}