We need your help for the #hastac2011 #alt-ac workshop: http://www.briancroxall.net/2011/11/22/materials-needed-for-hastac-workshop-on-alt-ac/. Looking for example cover letters and #altacadvice. Please RT!

RT @briancroxall: We need your help for the #hastac2011 #alt-ac workshop: http://www.briancroxall.net/2011/11/22/materials-needed-for-hastac-workshop-on-alt-ac/. Looking for example cover letters and #altacadvice. Please RT!

MT @briancroxall: Need help w/ #hastac2011 #alt-ac workshop: http://www.briancroxall.net/2011/11/22/materials-needed-for-hastac-workshop-on-alt-ac/. Looking for sample cover letters & #altacadvice Please RT

MT @briancroxall: We need your help for the #hastac2011 #alt-ac workshop: http://www.briancroxall.net/2011/11/22/materials-needed-for-hastac-workshop-on-alt-ac/. Looking for example cover letters and advice

HASTAC #alt-ac workshop organizers are seeking sample cover letters & your best #altacadvice: http://is.gd/qOvXtK

Got advice on the #altac job market? Share with @briancroxall. I did! http://www.briancroxall.net/2011/11/22/materials-needed-for-hastac-workshop-on-alt-ac/ #altacadvice.

Learn to do a job talk that ISN'T a dissertation talk. #altacadvice (VITAL for acad libs, so much so I make my libschool students do 'em)

My pragmatic #altacadvice on negotiating job offers is here: http://is.gd/qPBU8w #alt-ac

And (if I say so myself) I think you can't do better for #altacadvice than to read #Alt-Academy: http://is.gd/ncuKi3 #alt-ac

Speaking of which: substantive #altacadvice to share? Consider commenting, contributing, or editing a cluster: http://is.gd/YhoYLd #alt-ac

Tell a (true) story about how you got to #alt-ac. Tout your accomplishments. Don't self-deprecate. #altacadvice

More #altacadvice like "don't self-deprecate": You didn't get where you got by luck. You did the hard work to make that luck possible.

Serendipity doesn't exist for people who aren't ready to take advantage of it. #altacadvice

Use cover letter to translate exper in your CV into job descript & your goals for it. My exper as x will help me to do this... #altacadvice

Tailor CV for job (seems obvs, right?) Rephrase bullets or descrips to emphasize how your exper meshes nicely w/the job reqs. #altacadvice

True, gotta be ready to leap:RT @wynkenhimself: Serendipity doesn't exist for people who aren't ready to take advantage of it. #altacadvice

#altacadvice _Understand the ad_; come to terms w/ fact yr formal ac products matter little; focus on skills & their relevance to position.