Academic Careers

Web Sites

The Academic Job Search

Many academic job search resources from UCSF
http://www.ucsf.edu/career/pff.jobsearch.shtml

What Employers Want in New Faculty (from Re-envisioning the PhD web site)

Are you ready to go on [the academic] job market?

(Also see The Chronicle Archives many articles on academic careers, various columns)
http://chronicle.com/jobs/archive/advicearch.htm

Career Basics Booklet (printable) from ScienceCareers.org offers advice on CVs, interviews, grant writing, lab management and other relevant topics.

See online CV workshop, and related links.

See a timeline for the academic job search written by an MIT Biology Postdoc

Academic interview advice from an MIT Postdoc ( pdf | ppt)

Slides from an MIT Postdoc on the Academic Job Search (July '08)
Nuts and Bolts of the Academic Job Search(pdf)

Academic Careers Series
The Academic, Research and Careers committee of the Graduate Student Council, in collaboration with the Post-doctoral Advisory Council, the Provosts office, and the Careers office, plans and runs 4 lectures over the summer focused on academic careers and associated issues. Scroll to bottom of Academic Careers Series page to see slides comparing academic vs. industry career. Also see podcasts of acadmic career talks.

Two presentations on "The Nuts & Bolts of the Academic Job Search" by an MIT sr. postdoctoral associate and an MIT alumna who have both successfully completed an academic job search.

The Academic Job Search Process (A comprehensive overview by U Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
http://www.grad.uiuc.edu/careerservices/AcademicJobs/AcademicJobsHome.html

"E-Application Etiquette" (from the Chronicle of Higher Education)
http://chronicle.com/cgi2-bin/printable.cgi?article=http://chronicle.com/jobs/2005/08/2005083101c.htm

See more links on Academic Interviews

Landing an Academic Job
http://quattro.me.uiuc.edu/~jon/ACAJOB/Latex2e/academic_job/academic_job.html

Many articles on the Academic Job Search (from Re-Envisioning the PhD)
http://www.grad.washington.edu/envision/phd/obtaining_employment/articles3.html#1

Finding a Job Overseas
http://chronicle.com/jobs/v45/i49/4549career.htm (Chronicle of Higher Education)

Four Articles by David E. Drew and Paul Gray (Claremont Graduate University):

What They Don''t Teach You in Grad School - Part I: Completing Graduate School and Securing Your First Job
(from Nov. 30, 2005, Inside Higher Ed)
http://insidehighered.com/workplace/2005/11/30/tips
What They Don't Teach You in Grad School - Part II: Teaching, Service, Research, and Grantsmanship
(from Dec.8, 2005, Inside Higher Ed)
http://insidehighered.com/workplace/2005/12/08/hints2
What They Don't Teach You in Grad School - Part III: Tenure, Rank, and Working with Department Chairs
(from Dec. 28, 2005, Inside Higher Ed)
http://insidehighered.com/workplace/2005/12/28/tips
What They Don’t Teach You in Grad School - Part IV: Life as an Academic
(from Jan. 13, 2006, Inside Higher Ed)
http://insidehighered.com/workplace/2006/01/13/tips

Negotiating Offers

"A Dean’s Take on Salary Negotiation"
http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2006/08/2006082401c/careers.html
Article from The Chronicle of Higher Education, “First Person” Column

Nine Key Negotiating Points (ScienceCareers.org Career Development article)
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_development/previous_issues/articles/0350/nine_key_negotiating_points/

Go Ahead, Haggle (Chronicle of Higher Education)
http://chronicle.com/cgi2-bin/printable.cgi?article=http://chronicle.com/jobs/2005/11/2005110801c.htm

Tips on negotiating your first academic job
http://www.leighthompson.com/tips/first_academic_job.htm

Academic Job Listings

Higher Educations links on PhDs.org
http://www.phds.org/jobs/job-listings/higher-education-jobs/

Academic Careers Online
http://www.AcademicCareers.com

Jobs.ac.UK (Academic and related jobs in the UK)
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/

Physics Web - academic listings
http://www.physicsweb.org/jobs/

The Scientist - jobs in life sciences
http://www.the-scientist.com/

Academic 360 - comprehensive links to faculty positions
http://www.academic360.com/

Higher Ed Jobs
http://www.higheredjobs.com/

Chronicle of Higher Education - Career Network (at top of page, searchable by discipline, position type, location)
http://chronicle.com/jobs/

More academic job links (provided by Chronicle of Higher Ed)
http://chronicle.com/jobs/general_resources.htm

Top Higher Education Jobs
TedJob.com

General Advice

Tomorrow's Professor Listserv
http://sll.stanford.edu/projects/tomprof/newtomprof/index.shtml
Articles by Ricard Reis (Tomorrow's Professor: Preparing for Academic Careers in Science and Engineering)

Tomorrow's Professor Blog
http://amps-tools.mit.edu/tomprofblog/ (A partnership between MIT and Stanford)

AAUP Issues in Academia
http://www.aaup.org/Issues/index.htm

MIT GSO Website on Path of Professorship (Many Resources)
http://web.mit.edu/gso/advising/resources.html

Thriving Through The Experience: An Assesment Guide For Graduate And Professional Students - Llinked with permission of Prof. Wendy Crone, U. of Wisconsin, this website offers valuable advice on setting and achieving goals from graduate school through professional life, including preparation for an academic career.

Website on Surviving and Thriving in Academia
http://www.apa.org/pi/oema/surviving/homepage.html

UC Berkeley's web page for PhDs
http://career.berkeley.edu/Phds/Phds.stm

Sciencejobs.com: Blog on careers in academia and in industry
http://www2.sciencecareers.org/forum/index.php

How to Be a Leader in Your Field: A Guide for Students in Professional Schools
http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/leader.html

PhDs.org - advice for PhDs in science, math and engineering
http://www.phds.org/

ScienceCareers.org
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/

Publish & Perish - career links for biomedical students
http://his.com/~graeme/employ.html

Academic Career Advice from the Chronicle of Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/jobs/archive/advicearch.htm ("Career Talk" and "First Person" archives)

Dual Career Couples/Worklife Balance

National Clearinghouse on Academic Worklife (NCAW)
http://www.academicworklife.org
Articles, policy examples, and discussions are available on topics ranging from family-friendly benefits, tenure attainment, and faculty satisfaction to policy development, productivity, and demographics.

http://www.mamaphd.com/
Web site offers a blog on academia and motherhood, in conjunction with a book published by Rutgers University Press in 2008, which will contain essays from academic women about choices and changes related to career and parenthood.

http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/archives/columns/balancing_act/
(Also see The Chronicle Archives, Balancing Act columns)

Dual-Science-Career Couples
http://www.physics.wm.edu/dualcareer.html

PhDs.0rg
http://www.phds.org/jobs/the-two-body-problem/
Articles on the two-body problem in an academic job search

Articles from the Chronicle of Higher Ed, Related to the Two Body Problem
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2003/02/2003021701c.htm
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2003/01/2003010801c.htm

Advice on Physics Web (article)
http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/14/10/10/

Surviving Your First Year

Unsensational Revelations from the First Year
http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2007/06/2007061201c/careers.html

Tenure -- What is It?
http://jerz.setonhill.edu/resources/FAQ/tenure.htm

Now What? Making the Transition from Student to Faculty Member
http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gfda/resources/gradstudentissues/transitioningstudenttofaculty.pdf

Academia to Industry and Vice Versa

ScienceCareers.org: Academia or Industry http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_development/work_sector
(select Academia or Industry for links to relevant articles)

Slides on Academic vs. Industry Careers, Three Helpful Slides from 2005 Panelist Joe Schmitt
http://web.mit.edu/provost/pds_seminars/Schmitt_careerforum.ppt

Nose to the Grindstone
http://insidehighered.com/news/2005/12/13/workday
(academic vs. industry workload)

How to Prepare to Find a Job in Industry
http://www.ams.org/employment/sanfran.html
(Amer. Math. Soc.)

Academia vs. Industry – In the Pipeline (scroll down to reach this article)
http://www.corante.com/pipeline/archives/cat_academia_vs_industry.php

Industrial Postdocs
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/education/8139/8139education4.html

Consider Post-doctoral Training in Industry
http://www.studentvision.org/post-doctoral-training.html

Faculty Salaries

AAUP Faculty Salary Survey
Includes most recent data available from over 1400 institutions
http://chronicle.com/stats/aaup/

National Education Association
Salary Surveys searchable by state, updated yearly
http://www2.nea.org/cgi-bin/he/salaries2.cgi

Bibliography

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DeNeef, A. Leigh, Craufurd Goodwin and Ellen McCrate. The Academic's Handbook. Durham: Duke U. Press, l995. (Humanities Library, call number LB1778.A24,1998)

Diamond, Robert M., Preparing for Promotion and Tenure Review: A Faculty Guide, Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing Co., 1995. (Humanities Library, call number LB2335.7.D53 1995)

Davidson, Cliff I., and Ambrose, Susan A., The New Professor's Handbook: A Guide to Teaching and Research in Engineering and Science, Bolton, MA, Anker Publishing Co., 1994.

Feibelman, Peter J. A Ph.D. is Not Enough: A Guide to Survival in Science. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, 1993. (Dewey Library, call number Q147.F45,1993)

Gray, Paul and Drew, David E., What They Didn't Teach You in Graduate School: 199 Helpful Hints for Success in Your Academic Career, Sterling, VA, Stylus Publishing, expected publication (paperback) March 2008.

Goldsmith, John A., Komlos, John, and Gold, Penny Schine, The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career: A Portable Mentor for Scholars from Graduate School Through Tenure, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2001. (Humanities Library, call number LB1778.G63 2001)

Heiberger, Mary and Julia Vick. The Academic Job Search Handbook. Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. (Humanities Library, call number LB2331.72.H45 2001)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty, see http://hhmi.org/grants/office/scimgmt.html

Lanks, Karl W. Academic Environment: A Handbook for Evaluating Employment Opportunities in Science. Washington, DC: Taylor & Francis, 1996. (Dewey Library, call number LB2331.72.L38, 1996)

Newhouse, Margaret. Cracking the Academia Nut: A Guide to Preparing for Your Academic Career. Cambridge, MA: Office of Career Services, Harvard U., 1997.http://www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu/students/resources/books.htm

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