Academic Job Search
Our Center offers programs and online resources to assist graduate students with the academic job search. These resources greatly compliment, but do not replace, the specialized knowledge that faculty and alumni in your academic department can share with you when Going on the Market in your specific discipline. Because practices vary among academic disciplines, job candidates are encouraged to work closely with their departments, in addition to the Career Services Center.
Advertised Positions
Most tenure-track positions are advertised nationally through multiple sources. General resources are listed below. Job candidates need to be aware of the opportunities within their discipline, which are shared in scholarly newsletters and journals, by job-email alert services, and with postings at conferences.
Surviving the Job Search
Understanding the academic hiring process
prior to sending out application materials will greatly help you effectively and efficiently approach institutions. As you may be aware, the timeline for hiring a tenure-track position assistant professor position can start nearly two-years prior to them making an offer. By reviewing the UC San Diego 
Academic Job Search Survival Handbook, in addition to utilizing the resources below, will help you understand the hiring process from the institution’s perspective; create quality and appropriate application materials; prepare you for the interview, campus visit and job talk; and help you negotiate an offer.
This page includes information regarding:
| Finding Jobs By Discipline Teaching and Postdoctoral Jobs Credentials Interviewing, Salary, & The Negotiation Related Articles Recommended Reading |
After spending years in a Ph.D. program, you can lose touch with the way things operate outside of the research environment. The UCSD Career Service Center’s [PhD and master’s student] advisor gave me great pointers throughout every step of the job search process. In today's extremely diverse job market, I felt the Career Services Center had the flexibility to adjust to my needs and offered the resources to help me find and land the job I was looking for. - 2009 Physics Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Liberal Arts Teaching Institution |
| Finding Jobs General Resources |
The Chronicle of Higher Education Scholarly and Professional Societies Academic 360 Academic Careers Online PhDs.org Education Week Higher Ed Jobs (Southern California) Higher Education Recruitment Consortium Braintrack, a resource for academic positions abroad. |
| By Discipline | Comprehensive Faculty Jobs |
| Teaching and Postdoctoral Jobs | Teaching Resources for Jobs at Community Colleges, K-12 and Educational Institutions |
| Credentials: Cover Letters, CVs, and Teaching Portfolios | Create an Effective CV and Samples Overview and the Elements Ph.D. Cover Letters, CVs and Teaching Portfolios Life Science & Social Science Samples and Resources |
| Interviewing, Salary, and The Negotiation | The Academic Interview, from the telephone to the “job talk”: a comprehensive lists of tips and strategies that will help you successfully navigate the faculty interview process, University of Virginia
Academic Job Interview Advice, University of Maryland "Preparing for Campus Interviews,” The Chronicle of Higher Education Questions to Ask (and be ready for) During an Academic Interview, Dartmouth University Campus Interview: The Research “Job Talk” Presentation, Tomorrow’s Professor “So…What Do You Study?,” Inside Higher Ed “What Search Committees Want,” Modern Language Association Salaries & Benefits Average Faculty Salaries, The Chronicle of Higher Education
NegotiationAAUP Faculty Salary Survey, American Association of University Professors: Ten years of average faculty salaries at more than 1,200 institutions  “Negotiation in the Arts & Humanities,” Courtesy Yale University“Negotiating the Non-Tenure Track,” The Chronicle of Higher Education “Negotiating a Junior Faculty Position,”Journal Science “Negotiating an Academic Job Offer,” Ph.D.org
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| Related Articles | The Hiring Process from the Other Side Graduate Student to Junior Faculty Professor So You Want to Be A Professor How We Did It Patricia Gosling and Bart Noordam, Mastering Your Ph.D.: Survival and Success in the Doctoral Years and Beyond (Springer, 2006). |
| Recommended Reading | Electronic “The Academic Scientists’ Toolkit,” “Are You Ready to Go on the Market?,” “Getting Psyched Up for the Market,” Duel Academic Career Resources
"Surviving and Thriving in Academia,” "Thinking Beyond the Dissertation,” “Who Are You?” The Academic Job Search Handbook, (Fourth Edition), Julia Miller Vick and Jennifer S. Furlong (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008). Academic Couples, Marianne Ferber and Jane Loeb (University of Illinois, 1997). The Adjunct Professor's Guide to Success, Richard E. Lyons, Marcella L. Kysilka, and George E. Pawlas (Allyn and Bacon, 1999). Advice for New Faculty Members, Robert Boice (Allyn and Bacon, 2000). The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career: A Portable Mentor for Scholars from Graduate School through Tenure, John A. Goldsmith, John Komlos, and Penny Schine Gold. (University of Chicago Press, 2001). The Chicago Handbook for Teachers, Alan Brinkley, Betty Dessants, Michael Flamm, Cynthia Fleming, Charles Forcey, and Eric Rothschild (The University of Chicago Press, 1999). Faculty in New Jobs, Robert Menges and Associates (Josey-Bass Publishers, 1999). Job Search in Academe, Dawn M. Formo and Cheryl Reed (Stylus Publishing, 1999). Tomorrow's Professor: Preparing for Academic Careers in Science and Engineering, Richard M. Reis (IEEE Press, 1997). A Ph.D. is Not Enough!: A Guide to Survival in Science, Peter J. Feibelman (Addison-Wesley, 1994) |