Faculty Search
Jump into your faculty job search with these resources.
Job search documents: cover letters, CVs, teaching statements, research plans, diversity statements
- Writing a Research Plan by Jim Austin for ScienceCareers.org
- Teaching Portfolio resources from the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching (includes info on Teaching Statements)
- Guide to Developing and Writing a Diversity Statement from the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching
- Writing the Teaching Statement by Rachel Narehood Austin for ScienceCareers.org
- How to Prepare a Compelling Research Statement for R1 Institutions from Stanford School of Medicine
- Gender Bias Calculator for gauging the use of gendered language in letters of recommendation
Interviewing
- Advice for academics on preparing for video interviews by Ashley Brady and D’Anne Duncan for Carpe Careers at InsideHigherEd
- Interviewing for a Faculty Position: What to Expect by the University of California San Francisco Office of Career and Professional Development Student Academic Affairs
- Can you hear me now? Phone Interviews by the OITE Careers Blog for NIH Office of Intramural Training and Education
- Academic Job Search: Telephone Interviews by the OITE Careers Blog for NIH Office of Intramural Training and Education
- Preparing for Campus Interviews by Kimberly Delgizzo and Laura Malisheski for Chronicle.com
- Academic Interviewing for Graduate Students from U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate Career Services
- You’ve Worked Hard to Get This Far by Jim Austin for ScienceCareers.org
- ‘An Iced Tea Would Be Terrific’ by Allison M. Vaillancourt for The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Stupid Questions, Smart Answers by Rob Jenkins for Vitae
- Landing Your First Academic Job by William Helmreich
- 12 Bloopers to Avoid in Job Interviews and What Search Committees Wish You Knew from The Chronicle of Higher Education
- 30 Behavioral Interview Questions to Identify High-Potential Candidates LinkedIn Talent Solutions
- What to Expect in a First-Round Interview and What to Expect in a Second-Round Interview and Asking the Right Questions by Julie Miller Vick and Jenny Furlong for Chronicle of Higher Education
- What to Ask – And Not To Ask – In Your Interview by Rob Jenkins for Chronicle of Higher Education
The Job Talk
- Academic Scientists at Work: the Job Talk by Jeremy Boss and Susan Eckert for ScienceCareers.org
- Answering the Illegal Question by Julianna Baggott for Chronicle.com
- Preparing Your Academic Chalk Talk by Ashley Rowland for ASCB
Closing the Deal (Salary Negotiation and Start-Up Packages)
- Faculty Salaries (search ‘faculty salary data’ on chronicle.com)
- After the Offer, Before the Deal: Negotiating a First Academic Job by Chris M. Golde for AAUP
- How to Read Salary Ranges by Dean Dad for Inside Higher Ed
- Giving It 110% by Jeremy Boss and Susan Eckert for ScienceCareers.org
- OK, Let’s Talk About Negotiating Salary by Karen Kelsky for Vitae
- Negotiating Tactics for Women by Audrey Williams June for The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Don’t Sell Yourself Short, Even Now by Audrey Williams June for The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Nine Key Negotiating Points by Vid Mohan-Ram for ScienceCareers.org
- Be Honorable and Strategic by Chris Golde for ScienceCareers.org
- The Right Start-Up Package for Beginning Science Professors by Richard Reis for Chronicle.com
- Tooling Up: Salary Negotiation, Part 1 by David G. Jense for ScienceCareers.org
- Tooling Up: Salary Negotiation, Part 2 by David G. Jense for ScienceCareers.org
- Academic Tenure-Track Offer Letters for New Assistant Professors in the Biomedical Sciences from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund
General academic job search
- Learning the Lingo: A glossary of terms and phrases used in the academic job market across the disciplines by Mary Morris Heiberger and Julie Miller Vick for Chronicle.com
- The Ones We Didn’t Hire by Mary Cullinan for Chronicle.com
- The Adjunct Project, a resource to collect and share information about pay and working conditions of adjunct faculty
- How to Cope on the Market as an Academic Couple by Ellen Ostrow for The Chronicle of Higher Education
- It’s a Viable Career Path by Rob Jenkins discussing teaching at community college
- Three Faculty Communities: Academic Labor Across Institutional Types by Rick Reis
- ASCB guide, How to Get a Job at a Primarily Undergraduate Institution