I agree with you, maybe we are talking about two different things.

Ok, what about if someone appears over-experienced for the role? Would that be a reason you may not give them a job?

Just chuck everything together, what's the worst you are going to get, 60%? Does that really matter?

(Sorry I'm feeling particularly negative at the moment)

If it's unpublished how would anyone have it?

Try the block option? You can always undo later on I think. Don't know if they get a message back though saying this person is blocking you...

I think that there are so many things that contribute to whether or not you get an academic career that if you tick 15/20 boxes it wouldn't matter much whether you have international experience ie if you have great publications, contacts, the ability to move around etc then international experience is a bonus, but it's unlikely to be the difference between job or no job.

Sure, always a possibility. Hard to predict since it is at the whim of the examiners.

It's actually quite difficult to move between experimental fields unless the techniques involved overlap significantly. A background in bioinformatics or big data analysis is probably easier to use for many different projects.

I don't think a second masters is particularly helpful, especially if you have a PhD.

This would count as international experience, yes, but really I doubt it would be the decider between a successful job application and a unsuccessful one. But every little but helps I guess. I don't think you will get a scholarship from the UK for this, but you might find some relevant academic societies that will give you small amounts of funding. What about Erasmus?

What happened exactly? And what is OIA?

Options are limited whatever route you choose...

Are you prepared to move nationally and internationally for a job?

Personally I'm not sure there is much point in paying for proofreading at all, but I am a bit of a perfectionist and would rather my thesis didn't have errors in it. I don't mind if the examiner finds errors, but I would rather they weren't in the hard bound copy.