Career Resources

Academic Job Search

Application Materials: General

• Moving On: Managing Career Transitions a comprehensive guide to navigating the academic job search from BWF
• Academic Job Search 101 (2009 powerpoint presentation by TSRI Career and Postdoctoral Services Office)
• 2008 Trainee Symposium on "Marketing Yourself on Paper for Academic Positions" (3 audio+slides presentations addressing cover letters, research statements, and teaching philosophies)
• UCSF Preparing Future Faculty Website (detailed information with links, sample teaching statements, CVs and more)
• University of Chicago Academic Job Search Guide (lists of print resources and the nuts and bolts of the academic job search process)
• Writing a Curriculum Vitae (University of Virginia Career Services)
• The Rhetoric of the CV (Chronicle of Higher Education)
• Academic Careers (Columbia University Center for Career Education)
• Exploring Careers in Academia (NIH Office of Intramural Training and Education)

Application Materials: Teaching Philosophies

• Writing the Teaching Statement (ScienceCareers.org)
• Writing a Teaching Philosophy Statement (Washington University Teaching Center)
• Developing a Teaching Portfolio (The Ohio State University Center for the Advancement of Teaching)
• How to Write a Teaching Philosophy for Academic Employment (ACS Department of Career Services)
• Teaching Strategies:The Teaching Philosophy/Teaching Statement (University of Michigan Center for Research on Learning and Teaching)
• Creating a Teaching Philosophy (MSU Teaching Assistant Programs)
• Writing a Statement of Teaching Philosophy for the Academic Job Search (University of Michigan Center for Research on Learning and Teaching)
• How to Write a Statement of Teaching Philosophy (Chronicle of Higher Education)
• Writing Samples and Teaching Statements (Chronicle of Higher Education)
• Writing Tips to Help You Get Started on a Teaching Portfolio (University of Washington Center for Instructional Development and Research)
• The Statement of Teaching Philosophy (Duquesne University Center for Teaching Excellence)

Application Materials: Research Statements

• Development of a Research Statement (Armand R. Tanguay, USC)
• Writing An Effective Research Statement (University of Pennsylvania)
• Writing a Research Plan (ScienceCareers.org article by Jim Austin)
• Developing a Winning Research Statement (UCSF)
• Crafting the Research Statement (James A. Pawelczyk, Penn State, presentation at APA/FASEB Trainee Symposium)

Academic Job Postings

• Chronicle of Higher Education
• ScienceCareers.org
• Nature Jobs
• Academic Jobs in U.K.
• Times Higher Education Supplement (U.K. academic jobs)
• Education Jobs (U.K.)
• Academic 360 jobs in higher education
• Southern California Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC)

Teaching Opportunities

Many universities, community colleges, and learning centers in the San Diego area offer instructional opportunities for postdocs.  For more information, contact the individual learning institutions below:

• San Diego Centers for Education & Technology: 619-388-4880
• Miramar College: 858-536-7800
• City College: 619-388-3400
• Miracosta College: 760-757-2121
• Mesa College: 619-388-2600
• Palomar College: 760-744-1150
• Grossmont College: 619-644-7000
• Southwestern College: 619-421-6700
• Cuyamaca College: 619-660-4000
• San Diego State University: (619) 594-5200
• University of San Diego: (619) 260-4600
• University of California, San Diego: (858) 534-2230

ScienceCareers has a helpful article about how postdocs can gain teaching experience Postdoctoral Teaching: Opportunities and Resources from ScienceCareers.org

Interviews

• Preparing for Your Interview (Chronicle of Higher Education)
• What to Expect in a First-Round Interview (Chronicle of Higher Education)
• What to Expect in a Second-Round Interview (Chronicle of Higher Education)
• How Skype is Changing the Interview Process (Chronicle of Higher Education)
• Answering the Illegal Question (Chronicle of Higher Education)
• Questions One Should be Prepared to Answer for Job Interviews (Mary Corbin Sies, University of Maryland)
• What to Ask--and Not to Ask--in Your Interview (Chronicle of Higher Education)

Oral Presentations and Job Talks

• Communicating Science: Giving Talks from Burroughs Wellcome Fund
• Academic Scientists at Work: The Job Talk (Science Careers)
• Giving a Job Talk in the Sciences (Chronicle of Higher Education)
• Demystifying the Chalk Talk (UCSF)
• Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Presentations (But Were Afraid to Ask) TSRI News & Views summary of Jean Luc Doumont's talk: "Making the Most of Your Presentation"
• The All-Important Research Talk: Learning How to Do It Better
• Your Dog and Pony Show: Presenting a Dynamite Public Lecture
• Transferably Yours: Powerful Presentations
• Make This the Year That You Improve Your Public Speaking Skills
• Overcoming Speaking Anxiety in Meetings and Presentations
• Dazzle 'em with Style: The Art of Oral Scientific Presentation
• Oral Presentation Advice
• Preparing an Oral Presentation
• Designing Effective Visuals
• Speaking About Science presentation from TSRI's Floyd Bloom, M.D.

Job Offers and Negotiation

• After the Offer, Before the Deal: Negotiating a First Academic Job by Chris M. Golde, appearing in Academe: Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors
• Academic Job Offers and Negotiation from the Graduate College Career Services Office at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Landing an Academic Job: The Process and the Pitfalls by Jonathan A. Dantzig, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois
• Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide Website companion to the book by Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever
• Negotiation Resources from the American Phsysiological Society
• Evaluating and Negotiating Job Offers from Harvard University Office of Career Services
• Hints for Obtaining Tenure tip sheet from BWF
• The Prospects article from Brown Alumni Magazine about faculty recruitment
• On the Job Market?  Don't Sell Yourself Short, Even Now. by Audrey Williams June from the Chronical of Higher Education
• Negotiation Tactics for Women by Audrey Williams June
• AAUP/Chronicle data on faculty salaries (2011-2012)

Resources for Dual Career Couples

• Doing the Spousal Two-Step
• The A to Z of Dual-Career Couples (Chronicle of Higher Education)
• The Logistics of a Dual-Career Search (Chronicle of Higher Education)
• Site Review: Survey of Dual Career Couples
• Dual Career Scientific Couples: Relocating Both of You
• Partners in Science, part 1: Negotiating the Academic Market as Postdocs
• Partners in Science, part 2: Looking For and Negotiating Faculty Jobs Together
• Dual Career Couple Resources
• The Frustrating Career of the 'Trailing Spouse'
• Dual Career Science Couples
• Stanford's Clayman Institute for Gender Research: Dual-Career Academic Couples: What Universities Need to Know (study)
• Taking Time for Baby
• Pregnancy and Science Careers (Inside Higher Ed)