I'm applying under the "University professor or lecturer" category, have my invitation and am in the process of submitting supporting documentation. I'm wondering if anyone here has experiencing submitting letters of employment for an academic position. A couple of different questions:
I've worked as a part-time lecturer at three different universities over the past four years (it's continuous employment so it meets the qualification requirements). However, academic positions are generally not defined by hours per week, but by number of classes taught, where some specific number of classes per term (it varies by institution) is equivalent to a full-time position. This is because actual working hours vary greatly between classes, professors etc. How best to go about translating this to an hours-per-week format as required? From looking online, it appears that one way people do this is to define a full-time position as 40 hours/week and calculate based on that, so that e.g. a 50% appointment equals 20 hours/week. Is this what people here have done?
Second, I plan to draft the letters myself and ask my supervisors to print and sign them, to ensure all the appropriate information is included. This would mean all three of my letters would end up looking basically the same in format and wording. Could this cause problems?
Finally, if you've submitted academic letters of employment, it would be great to hear about anything that worked or didn't work for you, or see a sample if you don't mind sharing.
I've worked as a part-time lecturer at three different universities over the past four years (it's continuous employment so it meets the qualification requirements). However, academic positions are generally not defined by hours per week, but by number of classes taught, where some specific number of classes per term (it varies by institution) is equivalent to a full-time position. This is because actual working hours vary greatly between classes, professors etc. How best to go about translating this to an hours-per-week format as required? From looking online, it appears that one way people do this is to define a full-time position as 40 hours/week and calculate based on that, so that e.g. a 50% appointment equals 20 hours/week. Is this what people here have done?
Second, I plan to draft the letters myself and ask my supervisors to print and sign them, to ensure all the appropriate information is included. This would mean all three of my letters would end up looking basically the same in format and wording. Could this cause problems?
Finally, if you've submitted academic letters of employment, it would be great to hear about anything that worked or didn't work for you, or see a sample if you don't mind sharing.
