Obtaining Employment

Publications

The "Selected Bibliography on Doctoral Education" on our website provides information about re-envisioning doctoral education from the perspective of many stakeholders. The following list, however, was compiled with the career interests of doctoral students, newly-minted Ph.D.'s, post-docs, and beginning academics specifically in mind. A parallel list of Publications under Obtaining the Ph.D. covers preparing for professional life while still in graduate school. This list is not exhaustive: it provides a cross-section of some of the more current publications aimed at graduate students. We welcome additional suggestions at envision@u.washington.edu.

Debelius, Maggie and Basalla, Susan Elizabeth. So What Are You Going to Do With That?: A Guide for M.A.'s and Ph.D.'s Seeking Careers Outside the Academy. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux (2001). Two English Ph.D.s cover the transition to the "post-academic" world. They offer both specific advice about job-hunting and provide a general, often humorous perspective on the process of moving out of academia. Find resources cited in their book at www.phdcareer.com.

Goldsmith, John ; Komlos, John; and Schine Gold, Penny. The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career: A Portable Mentor for Scholars from Graduate School Through Tenure. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2001). Three scholars combine their experiences to offer information about getting a job, obtaining tenure, and surviving academia as well as succeeding in graduate school.

Heiberger, Mary Morris and Vick, Julia Miller. The Academic Job Search Handbook. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press (1996). For recent Ph.D.'s going through their first job search, this covers the specifics of conferences and interviews, offers sample curricula vitae, cover letters, and abstracts, and introduces the professorial professional life.

Newhouse, Margaret. Cracking the Academic Nut: A Guide to Preparing For Your Academic Career. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press (1997). Targets students preparing for graduate school as well as those who are negotiating for or beginning their first academic jobs.

Newhouse, Margaret. Outside the Ivory Tower: A Guide for Academics Considering Alternative Careers. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press (1993). Deals with the step-by-step psycho-social and practical aspects of making the transition to alternative professional careers.

On the Market: Surviving the Academic Job Search. New York: Riverhead Books (1997). This collection of essays by new Ph.D.'s offers specific advice and tips for the academic job search and discussions of the personal difficulties involved.

Schaffer, William. High-Tech Careers for Low-Tech People. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press (1999). Explains how people with humanities backgrounds can transition into the technology field. Useful information includes descriptions of many types of positions, how to gain experience in the field, and the basics of computer technology and jargon.

Toth, Emily. Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press (1997). The Ann Landers of the MLA and The Chronicle of Higher Education's Career section shares hard truths and dispenses advice with her trademark dry delivery.

Verba, Cynthia. Scholarly Pursuits: A Practical Guide to Academe. Cambridge, Mass.: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Office of Student Affairs (1997). This booklet, published by Harvard, is a practical guide with sections on grant writing and applying for teaching positions and postdoctoral fellowships. For information about the booklet, see www.gsas.harvard.edu/academic/fellowships/scholarly.html. For information about ordering, see www.gsas.harvard.edu/academic/fellowships/.

Obtaining Employment

On-line articles

Some of the on-line articles below offer Specific Advice about preparing for academic and nonacademic job markets, negotiating salaries and perks, networking, and more. Other articles give more General Advice in the form of speculations about the intellectual roles of Ph.D.'s working outside academia and news coverage of Ph.D. employment. Finally, Career Paths includes first- and third-hand accounts of Ph.D.'s who have taken somewhat unexpected paths towards their current careers. Refer to the Publications page for printed materials dealing with Ph.D. employment. See the "Selected Bibliography on Doctoral Education" for information about re-envisioning doctoral education from the perspectives of many stakeholders.

This list is not exhaustive, and we welcome additional suggestions at envision@u.washington.edu.

Specific Advice

Advancing Your Career
http://chronicle.com/jobs/archive/topical/advance_career.htm A collection of articles from The Chronicle of Higher Education offering advice on advancing an academic career.

After the Offer, Before the Deal: Negotiating a First Academic Job
http://www.aaup.org/publications/Academe/99jf/GOL_JF99.htm Chris Golde offers suggestions to just-appointed faculty members about negotiating the terms of a first academic job.

Before You Go On the Job Market
http://chronicle.com/jobs/archive/topical/before_market.htm A collection of articles from The Chronicle of Higher Education dealing with going on the academic job market.

The Community College Job Search
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2002/04/2002041901c.htm An English professor at a community college offers advice for applicants targeting community colleges, including advice (in a later column) about "The Importance of Cover Letters in a Community College Job Search."

Conducting a Search
http://chronicle.com/jobs/archive/topical/conduct_search.htm A collection of articles from The Chronicle of Higher Education about conducting an academic job search.

Facing Those Student Loans
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2002/06/2002061801c.htm Congratulations on obtaining a position! Now those student loans come due. Read about how to deal strategically with student loans and plan for the financial future.

Five Rules that Might Save Your Career
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2001/10/2001103001c.htm Daniel Kowalsky, an adjunct, elaborates on five rules that experience has shown him are associated with success in academe.

Four Steps to Succeeding Outside the Ivory Tower
http://www.salon.com/it/career/1999/03/29career.html Jennifer Stone Gonzalez describes the intellectual transition from academia to the business world.

Getting Great Letters of Recommendation
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2001/02/2001020202c.htm Richard Reis explains the importance of recommendation letters and how to get letters that will help in the academic job search.

Getting the Job
http://chronicle.com/jobs/archive/topical/get_job.htm A collection of articles from The Chronicle of Higher Education about applying for an academic position, weighing offers, negotiating terms, and more.

Learning the Lingo
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2002/04/2002042201c.htm A glossary of terms and phrases used in the faculty job market across academic disciplines.

Moving to a Nonacademic Job
http://chronicle.com/jobs/archive/topical/non_academic.htm A collection of articles from The Chronicle of Higher Education about looking for and transitioning into a postacademic job.

Negotiating Perks: Getting More of What You Want
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2002/03/2002031501c.htm Advice to adjuncts about negotiating "perks" like office space, health care, parking permits, email accounts, award nominations, and more.

Networking: A Career Necessity
http://www.the-scientist.com/yr2002/mar/prof1_020304.html Explains why networking via email, conferences, and other interpersonal contact is essential for scientists to advance their academic careers. See also Networking: How to Get a Good Connection.

The Ones We Didn't Hire
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2002/02/2002021201c.htm A dean describes common mistakes made by candidates invited for on-campus interviews. For a more humorous account of the absurdities on both sides of the interviewing process, read The Campus Visit by a department chair.

Profession Archive
http://www.the-scientist.com/professionarchive.htm A collection of articles from The Scientist about academic and nonacademic careers.

Starting at the Bottom
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2002/05/2002050801c.htm Susan Basalla, co-author of So What Are You Going to Do With That?, offers advice to help Ph.D.'s breaking into nonacademic fields advance in their new careers.

When the Job Doesn't Work Out
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2002/04/2002041201c.htm How to deal with a nonacademic job that hasn't worked out as expected or hoped.

Why You'll Want a Mentor Outside the Ivory Tower, Too
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2001/12/2001120702c.htm How and why to find mentors outside the ivory tower.

General Advice

Humanities at Work
http://chronicle.com/jobs/archive/advice/humanities.htm A series of advice columns sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation about careers for humanities Ph.D.'s.

Journeyman: Getting Into and Out of Academia
http://pweb.jps.net/~aspang/journeyman/ Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, a history-of-science Ph.D., explains how to make the transition from academic to other work and still be a productive scholar.

Postdoc Life at Liberal Colleges, Parts I and II
Part I explains how postdocs benefit from teaching at small liberal-arts colleges, and Part II explores some of the difficulties postdocs frequently encounter on small college campuses.

Postdoc Trails: Long and Filled With Pitfalls
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/21/science/physical/21POST.html?searchpv=day07 Details some of the problems common to postdoctoral positions.

Professional Identity, Work, and Scholarship Beyond the Academy
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2001/05/2001052503c.htm In the same vein as Alex Pang (see "Journeyman" above), Kevin Walzer writes about how to maintain one's identity and work as a scholar after academia. A year later, in The Pleasure of Publishing, he writes about continuing his love of poetry through Word Press, a publishing company he and his wife founded.

Three Differences Between an Academic and an Intellectual: What Happens to the Liberal Arts When They Are Kicked Off Campus?
http://www.crosscurrents.org/miles.htm Jack Miles, 1996 Pulitzer Prize winner, speculates about whether intellectuals outside of academia will become the main carriers of the humanist tradition, and how that might in turn affect the humanities themselves.

The Value of "Learning Backward"
http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2002/05/30/1 Two doctoral students in the University of Texas at Austin's "Intellectual Entrepreneurship Program" argue that more graduate students in the sciences should be driven by Tom Magliozzi's concept of "learning backward" and that this might help more Ph.D.'s put their skills to use in society at large.

You're the Dr. (What's as Easy as ABC, Only a Little Farther Up the Alphabet? A Ph.D.)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42186-2002Mar17.html A general meditation on what the proliferation of Ph.D.'s means for Ph.D.'s, academia, and society at large.

Career Paths

Consultant For a Day
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2002/05/2002050701c.htm A doctoral student in biomedical engineering describes a recruiting weekend with a management-consulting firm and what he learned about the world of consulting.

A Humanities Ph.D. Finds Her Niche in Administration
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2002/05/2002050101c.htm A doctoral student in English describes the factors that influenced her decision to move into administration and the skills and experiences that allowed her to do so.

Not What I Had in Mind
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2002/04/2002041902c.htm An English professor's account of the preconceptions she had about teaching at a community college, how those changed for the better after teaching there, and a summing up of the benefits and drawbacks her position offers.

Putting Research Skills to Work for the Public Good
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2002/05/2002050602c.htm Four doctoral students taking time away from their graduate studies for internships at civil-liberties and human-rights groups explain how the internships have influenced their research and career aspirations.

The Reluctant Geneticist
http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2002/06/13/10 An assistant professor of genetics explains how he tumbled into the field and how his unconventional background (as a tuba player) may have influenced his approach to science.

Selling Scholarship on Tour
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2002/06/2002060401c.htm Professors and graduate students in the humanities have begun to work in cultural tourism by offering tours such as Egghead Tours (New Orleans)), Big Onion tours (New York City), and Poor Richard's Walking Tours (Philadelphia).

Where Ph.D.'s Morph Into M.B.A.'s
http://www.the-scientist.com/yr2001/jun/prof_010625.html At management consulting firms, scientists apply their analytical expertise to tough business questions.

Obtaining Employment

Web Resources
These web resources provide information about a variety of funding resources, employment opportunities, and career paths. The "General Resources" cover a broad range of disciplinary career resources and include a few articles about the intellectual, social and psychological implications of individuals' transitions from academic to other types of work. The "Discipline-specific Resources" are by no means comprehensive but offer specific starting points for some disciplines. Be sure to check academic and professional organizations in your field. "Useful Related Resources" relate to a wide range of career possibilities. Some are also posted as Promising Practices on our site: to read more about these, click on the resource's name.

General Resources:

Academic Job Application Checklist
http://otal.umd.edu/~sies/jobchecklist.html This checklist for American studies candidates applies to most humanities Ph.D.'s. See also links to Academic Job Interview Advice and Academic Job Interview Questions.

Adjuncts, Part-Timers, and Temporary Employees
http://chronicle.com/jobs/archive/topical/adjunct.htm This section of the Chronicle is devoted to articles helping temporary instructors deal with career, financial, and time challenges.

Adjunct Solutions
http://www.adjunctsolutions.com/homepage.html Aims to help adjunct lecturers gain professional and financial stability by approaching their careers with entrepreneurial strategies.

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
http://www.aaas.org/careers/ Links to fellowships, grants, and other career sites.

Beyond the Ivory Tower (Chronicle of Higher Education)
http://chronicle.com/jobs/archive/advice/beyond.htm Provides career advice and archived articles about the job search process.

Careers for Humanities Scholars in Technology Administration
http://chronicle.com/colloquylive/2001/06/careers/ An online discussion with James J. O'Donnell, Professor of Classical Studies and Vice Provost for Information Systems and Computing at the University of Pennsylvania.

Careers In (and Out of) Science
http://www.freenet.hamilton.on.ca/~ae047/employ7.html Offers links to a variety of science career information sites.

Chronicle Career Network
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2001/04/2001040604c.htm Lists on-line career resources in various disciplines, government, industry, business sectors, nonprofits, and general career sites for Ph.D.'s.

Dottie and Jane's Adventures--Out of Academia
http://www.dottiejane.itgo.com/index.html/ Offers personal narratives of two Ph.D.'s moving out of academia and links to other resources; interviews with former academics pursuing other careers are soon to come.

Escape Pod for Humanities Ph.D.'s
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/7167/index.html Started by three English Ph.D.'s ("Girls With Glasses"), this offers practical career advice, narratives, and links to other resources for humanities Ph.D.'s. Includes "PhDs Work," formerly a separate site.

Graduate Program Placement Site (Dept. of English, University of Western Ontario)
http://publish.uwo.ca/~mjones/UWOSite.html Offers resources to help students in the English program explore career possibilities and coordinate their job search activities, both within and outside the academic world.

The Ivory Doghouse
http://www.geocities.com/freiaber/ Offers links to news about the academic job market in the humanities and arts, information about how professional societies are handling employment issues, and other resources for graduate students and postdocs.

Negotiating the Non-Tenure Track (Chronicle of Higher Education)
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2001/07/2001070601c.htm Discusses why some people prefer non-tenure track positions and how to make the most of them.

Networking on the Network
http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/network.html Explains networking for academic jobs.

Preparing Future Faculty, Useful Resources
http://www.preparing-faculty.org/PFFWeb.Resources.htm#career Offers a range of web resources for graduate students, including career and job search information.

Tips for a Massive Academic Job Search
http://www.mills.edu/ACAD_INFO/MCS/SPERTUS/job-search/job.html Extensive and humorous tips from a computer science professor at MIT.

The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

• Career Resource Center http://www.woodrow.org/phd/Career/career.html Offers a range of links to career information, mentors, sample job descriptions, and the graduate career service centers of all of the major research universities.
• The Humanities At Work http://www.woodrow.org/phd/ Includes Postdoctoral Careers, Innovation Awards, Practicum Grants, and the National Mentoring Program, which all encourage humanities Ph.D.'s to explore options beyond the academy.
• Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities http://www.woodrow.org/academic_postdocs/index.htm Posts two-year academic postdoctoral fellowships at colleges and universities around the US.

A Yellow Wood (U.C. Santa Barbara)
http://yw.english.ucsb.edu/ Created and maintained by Ph.D.'s, this focuses on nonacademic careers for humanists.

Discipline-specific Resources:
Some of these discipline-specific resources also post jobs and are listed as "Discipline-specific Sites" on the "Jobs and Funding" page.

American Sociological Association
http://www.asanet.org Under sections for "Sociologists" and "Students," has career development information.

Career Alternatives for Art Historians
http://www.nd.edu/~crosenbe/jobs.html Gives descriptions of and requirements for various careers.

The PhD Project
http://www.phdproject.com Offers resources to encourage minority Ph.D.'s in business programs. The project's goal is to increase diversity of business school faculty.

Texas A&M University English Department Graduate Placement Information
http://www-english.tamu.edu/jobs/placement/ Provides English grads with links to various job postings and to "Academic Job Search" resources about researching potential jobs, interviewing, preparing for the MLA convention, etc.

Useful Related Resources:
Some of these resources also post jobs and are listed as "Useful Related Sites" on the "Jobs and Funding" page.

The Black Collegian
http://www.black-collegian.com Provides information on career resources, job search strategies, and graduate school opportunities for black collegians.

Business 2.0
http://www.business2.com In addition to covering the world of business, this site offers several useful resources, including Career links and the weekly Monday Brazen Careerist advice column (subscribe to the column's newsletter at http://www.business2.com/articles/web/newslettersub/1,1659,,00.html?ref=t_nl).

Careers.org
http://www.careers.org/topic/01_jobs_70.html Lists other career sites by occupational interest.

ElfNetwork.com
http://www.elfnetwork.com Offers career information about the non-profit sector.

Idealist.org
http://www.idealist.org Offers links to career resources, organizations, internships, jobs, and more in the non-profit sector.

IM Diversity.com
http://www.imdiversity.com Provides articles, employer profiles, reports, job postings, and other resources of interest to minority job seekers.

Independent Homeworkers Alliance
http://www.homeworkers.org Offering resources for members working at home, whether free-lance, self-employed, or running a small business.

Job Hunter's Bible
http://www.jobhuntersbible.com Richard Bolles (What Color is Your Parachute) provides links to self-evaluation tools, resources for researching companies and writing resumes, and more.

MindTools.com
http://www.mindtools.com This site aims to help people understand skills and techniques that will help them to excel in their chosen professions. These include creative, problem-solving, project planning, and management skills.

Occupational Outlook Quarterly
http://www.bls.gov/opub/ooq/ooqhome.htm This online O.O.Q. from the Bureau of Labor Statistics provides employment projections and career information.

The Riley Guide
http://www.rileyguide.com Lists hundreds of job resources, services, and career information guides covering business, industry, government, non-profit, overseas work, etc.

Salary.com
http://www.salary.com/salary/layoutscripts/sall_display.asp Offers advice on negotiating a salary, a "salary wizard" for computing salaries by field and geographical area, and career resources.

Saludos.com
http://www.saludos.com Offers career profiles, Saludos Hispanos online magazine, information about self-employment, company profiles, etc. for bilingual professionals.

Techies.com
http://www.techies.com Offers career and training information about tech jobs with specific sites for a number of cities.

Vault.com
http://www.vault.com Offers information about specific industries, companies, narratives about a typical day in various careers, career advice, message boards, and more.

Wall Street Journal's Career Site
http://www.careerjournal.com Offers salary and hiring information, career columnists, job-hunting advice, etc. for business and industry sectors.

Webgrrls.com
http://www.webgrrls.com For women interested or working in high tech fields. Gives members access to a job bank, international and local discussion groups, local chapters, career advice, and more.

WetFeet.com
http://www.wetfeet.com/asp/home.asp Provides a range of career resources, including industry and company profiles, advice for career changers, resources for women and minorities, etc.

Work and Career, U.S. News
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/work/wohome.htm Offers articles about careers, workplace trends, and general professional development, as well as an index of past articles.

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Discussion Groups
These groups connect you with on-going email discussions about professional issues in a variety of career fields. To subscribe to any of these, go to the site and follow the directions for being added to the list. If the subscription page is different from the group's homepage, the URL for subscription is given as well.

AERA-GSL: American Educational Research Association Graduate Studies List
http://kerlins.net/aera-gsl/ The Graduate Studies List of the American Educational Research Association is co-hosted by Scott and Bobbi Kerlin for students, faculty and administrators interested in academic discussions about graduate education and the future of the academic profession.

H-Net Job Guide
http://www.matrix.msu.edu/jobs/ H-Net sends out weekly indexes of positions in history, the humanities, social sciences, rhetoric, and composition.

Museum Professionals List
http://hclist.de/museum/index1.html This bilingual (English and German) list focuses on museums and the internet as well as archives, libraries, and other communication media. To subscribe, go to http://hclist.de/museum/add1.html.

Nonacademic Careers for Philosophers
http://listsrv.cmsu.edu/archives/about.php3?list=nacphil-l This list explores non-academic career opportunities for philosophers.

PHDJOBS-L
http://www.listserv.emory.edu/Archives/phdjobs-l.html This list is for graduate students and Ph.D.'s in the humanities and social sciences interested in job opportunities beyond the academy.

Tomorrow's Professor
This list is related to Richard Reis' book, Tomorrow's Professor: Preparing for Academic Careers in Science and Engineering. The Tomorrow's Professor listserv addresses how doctoral students can prepare for an academic, government, or industry career in science and engineering. To subscribe, go to http://cis.stanford.edu/structure/tomprof/listserver.html (scroll to the bottom of page).

WRK4US
http://www.woodrow.org/phd/WRK4US/ WRK4US, housed on the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation site, invites guest speakers from humanities backgrounds to discuss their careers (such as technical writing, consulting, IT work, etc.) with graduates and Ph.D.'s considering these fields. Past discussions are archived by topic.

Universities with Career Services for Ph.D.'s
The following universities and institutes have career services specifically for graduate students along with on-line career resources that are freely accessible from outside the university. Your university, if not listed here, may also have career services that are not labeled as being for "Ph.D.'s" but could prove useful. This list is by no means complete: if you know of other higher education institutions that target career services at Ph.D.'s, please let us know at , and we will add them to this list.

• Brown University
• Columbia
• Dartmouth
• Duke
• Harvard
• MIT
• Northwestern University
• Princeton
• Scripps Research Institute
• Stanford University
• UC Berkeley
• UC Davis
• UC San Diego
• UC San Francisco
• UC Santa Barbara
• University of Chicago
• University of Michigan
• University of Notre Dame
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Virginia
• University of Wisconsin at Madison
• Yale University

Writing CVs and Resumes
There are innumerable books about CVs, resumes and cover letters; these are some helpful resources available on-line. The best advice you can get, however, is from people in the field to which you're applying. Be sure also to view What Employers Want in New Faculty and include key characteristics noted in the articles there in the CV.

Cover Letter Writing (University of Wisconsin-River Falls)
http://www.uwrf.edu/ccs/cover-letter.htm Gives advice about letters of inquiry and cover letters and includes samples of each.

CV to Resume: Representing Yourself Outside Academe (CAPS, University of Chicago)
http://caps.uchicago.edu/resources/pdfs/cv2resume.pdf Gives an overview of changing CVs to resumes, samples, and resume word lists.

From CV to Resume (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
http://chronicle.com/jobs/99/12/99120301c.htm Margaret Newhouse explains how to transform a CV into a resume and includes an example.

The CV.Doctors (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
"CV Doctors" Mary Heiberger and Julia Miller Vick offer advice for five CVs in social sciences, education, humanities, fine arts, and the sciences (http://chronicle.com/jobs/99/09/99091701c.htm), rework the CVs of two faculty members and an administrator at various stages in their careers (http://chronicle.com/jobs/2000/10/2000102001c.htm), and rework three academic CVs into resumes for administrative and nonacademic positions (http://chronicle.com/jobs/2001/10/2001101201c.htm).

Job Search Tools & Basics (Columbia University)
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccs/99website/99student/basics/ Offers information about and examples of CVs, resumes, transforming one into the other, cover letters, and more.

Professional Writing Handouts and Resources (Purdue University)
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/pw/ Offers samples and models of resumes, cover letters (including academic cover letters), a list of sample skills used in a cross section of careers (useful for writing a first-time resume and/or translating a CV into a resume), and more.

Resumes, Cover Letters, and CVs (Claremont Graduate University Writing Center)
http://writecenter.cgu.edu/students/brores_guide.html Offers advice for writing resumes, CVs, cover letters for each, and annotated samples for each category.

What You Don't Know About Cover Letters (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2002/06/2002061101c.htm Offers dos/don'ts and guidelines for different types of nonacademic cover letters.

Writing Resumes and cover letters (Job Options)
http://ww1.joboptions.com/careertools/writing_resumes.jsp?session_id=0&app_id=0 Discusses traditional and electronic resumes, offers sample resumes and cover letters, and provides additional resources.

Writing a Vita for a Higher Education Job Search (University of Virginia)
http://www.virginia.edu/~career/handouts/vita1.html Gives basic guidelines and samples for writing a vita and contrasts this with a resume.

Jobs and Funding
Although there are many on-line job sites, the "General Sites" and "Discipline-specific Sites" below target Ph.D.'s looking for a variety of positions and funding. These lists are by no means exhaustive: for example, check directly with disciplinary societies, professional organizations, journals, trade magazines, mentors, and career centers. The "Useful Related Sites" are not aimed at Ph.D.'s but include sites that are among the most extensive currently on-line and are in fields that might be of interest to Ph.D.'s. As most career counselors will attest, it's best not to job hunt solely through the internet but to use these resources in combination with other job search strategies.

General Sites:

Academic 360
http://www.academic360.com Offers a collection of internet resources for the academic job hunter, including links to faculty, staff, and administrative positions.

Academic Employment Network
http://www.academploy.com Posts academic positions in a range of higher education and K-12 institutions.

Academic Position Network
http://www.apnjobs.com Posts academic positions around the world.

Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation
http://www.arcsfoundation.org A national volunteer women's organization dedicated to helping the best and brightest U.S. graduate and undergraduate students by providing scholarships in natural sciences, medicine and engineering.

AERA, The Education and Research Network
http://www.aera.net/jobposts/default.asp Job and Career Opportunities: Posts academic, research and administrative positions at universities and some businesses.

http://www.aera.net/anews/compete.htm Fellowships and Other Competitions: Posts fellowships and grants, especially those targeting research in the field of education.

American Association of Community Colleges
http://www.aacc.nche.edu/Template.cfm?Section=CareerCenter Posts faculty, staff, and administrative positions.

American Public Health Association
https://secure.matrixgroup.net/apha/careermartSearch/jobs_search.cfm Posts a range of professional positions in public health.

Association for Educational Communications & Technology
http://www.aect.org/Job/default.htm Advertises positions for academics and professionals interested in developing the use of educational technology.

Chronicle of Higher Education

• Academic job postings http://chronicle.com/jobs/
• Non-academic job sites http://chronicle.com/jobs/2001/04/2001040604c.htm

Fellowships and Grant Proposals (Claremont Graduate University Writing Center)
http://writecenter.cgu.edu/students/felgrantgen.html Offers information about writing grant proposals (gives sample proposals and suggestions) and links to Sources of Grant Funding in various academic fields.

H-Net Job Guide
http://www.matrix.msu.edu/jobs/ Lists positions in history, the social sciences, and the humanities.

Jobs in Higher Education
http://www.higheredjobs.com Lists faculty, part-time, administrative and staff positions at colleges and universities.

Modern Language Association
http://www.mla.org See the Job Information List for openings in English and foreign language departments.

National Employment Bulletins
http://www.graduatejobs.com Posts positions in the liberal arts, arts, and the humanities.

National Association of Graduate-Professional Students (NAGPS)

Grants and Fellowships Database
http://www.nagps.org/Mailing-List.asp?Target=grants Posts a variety of funding resources. Note: membership (individual and institutional) is required for access.

Post-Docs.com
http://www.post-docs.com Lists post-doc positions nationwide.

Quidfit.net
http://www.quidfit.net Brings together PhDs and academic employers by letting adjuncts post CVs and giving academic employers access to a database of adjuncts' CVs.

The Riley Guide: Education & Instruction
http://www.rileyguide.com/educate.html#ed Lists college, K-12, instructional technology, and other teaching positions.

Russian and East European Institute: Employment
http://www.indiana.edu/~reeiweb/indemp.html Not just for Russian and East European scholars. Offers several pages of job postings and resources for humanities-related work (teaching, non-profit, etc.) in the United States and abroad.

The Times Higher Education Supplement, Jobs
http://www.jobs.thes.co.uk Posts higher education jobs around the world.

University Job Bank
http://www.ujobbank.com Lists faculty and administrative/staff positions, post-doctoral positions, government, non-profit organization jobs, and others.

University Work
http://www.universitywork.com Lists faculty and administrative/staff positions by state as well as institutions' human resources departments.

Women in Higher Education
http://www.wihe.com Lists job announcements from schools actively seeking women for administrative or faculty positions.

Useful Related Sites:

Career Magazine
http://www.careermag.com Lists jobs, offers resume posting, lists current employers and recruiters, and gives links to other resources.

ElfNetwork.com
http://www.elfnetwork.com Posts positions in and offers career information about the non-profit sector.

Grant Managers Network Job Opportunities
http://www.gmnetwork.org/job.htm Posts links to job postings in foundations, nonprofits, and philanthropy organizations.

Idealist.org
http://www.idealist.org Offers links to career resources, organizations, internships, jobs, and more in the non-profit sector.

IM Diversity.com
http://www.imdiversity.com Targets minority job seekers and provides articles, employer profiles, reports, job postings, and more.

Native American Jobs.com
http://www.nativeamericanjobs.com Lists jobs by state for anyone interested in working on or near Native American Indian Reservations.

Professionals for Nonprofits, Inc.
http://www.nonprofitstaffing.com Places professionals in temporary and permanent positions with nonprofits in the greater New York City area.

Saludos.com
http://www.saludos.com Posts job targetting bilingual professionals, offers online employment booths and job fairs, and more.

Techies.com
http://www.techies.com Posts tech jobs searchable by location and keyword.

U.S. Government Jobs
http://www.usajobs.opm.gov Posts "Current Job Openings" by category for U.S. Government jobs.

Vault.com
http://www.vault.com Lists jobs by industry, location, and skills, experience level, and other criteria.

Webgrrls.com
http://www.webgrrls.com Gives members interested or working in high tech fields access to a job bank, international and local discussion groups, local chapters, career advice, and more.

Worktree.com
http://www.worktree.com Links to job sites in government (state, city and national), industry, Fortune 1000 companies, around the world, etc.

What Employers Want in New Faculty

Job candidates for academic positions may be unaware of what employers are looking for in new faculty. The resources on this page provide current information on how best to prepare for a faculty position. Key characteristics noted in these articles should also be included in the CV. See also Writing CVs and Resumes.

Kathrynn A. Adams
What Colleges and Universities Want in New Faculty (pdf file)
Reviews the research on the preparation needed for graduate students and their responsibilities as faculty.

Associated New American Colleges
ANAC Institutional Representatives Propose Text for Discussion of Faculty Roles
ANAC member colleges and universities seek faculty who share a commitment to a professional model that emphasizes connections among teaching, research, and service roles.

Elon University
The Elon Teacher-Scholar
A statement of principles adopted by the faculty of Elon University.

Jolene Koester, President, California State University -- Northridge
Ideal Emphasis and Characteristics for the Preparation of New Faculty for Regional Comprehensive (Master's Preparation) Universities
A list of key characteristics for the preparation of new faculty.

James M. Lang (2002, October 29) The Chronicle of Higher Education
Redefining Myself on a Seven-Course Load
An English professor notes that the heavier course load at a teaching-oriented college is partly compensated by greater freedom in scholarly work.

Dana M. Zimbleman (2002, April 19) The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Community College Job Search
An English professor at a community college offers advice for applicants targeting community colleges, including advice (in a later column) about "The Importance of Cover Letters in a Community College Job Search."

Other Sources

Academic Senate for California Community Colleges. (2002). A re-examination of faculty hiring processes and procedures. (Clearinghouse No. JC010343.) Sacramento, CA (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED452899.)

Barber, Bob. (1995). Future faculty task force report, fall 1995. (Clearinghouse No. JC960271.) Eugene, OR. (ERIC Document Reproductive Service No. ED394539.)

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Re-envisioning Project Resources

2000 Conference: Selected Bibliography

Index of Topics

Introduction to the Selected Bibliography

Emerging Issues in Graduate Education - General

Emerging Issues in Graduate Education - Specific

US Programs

International Programs

Humanities / Social Sciences

Science / Mathematics / Engineering

Enrollment and Recruitment

Retention

Attracting and Retaining Diverse Populations of Graduate Students

Graduate Student Teaching Assistantships and Professional Preparation

Preparing Graduate Students for Teaching Assistantships and Academic Careers

Preparing International Graduate Students for Teaching Assistantships

Broadening Career Preparation Beyond Academia

Post-Graduate Employment

Employment Patterns and Possibilities

Post-Doctoral Issues

Issues For The Professoriate

Emerging Issues In Higher Education

Introduction

In July 1998, funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts, two research assistants and I initiated an "environmental scan" of current concerns as well as promising practices in doctoral education as identified by institutions preparing Ph.D.s, by graduate students, and by those who hire Ph.D.s. Very quickly, we discovered that even though U.S. doctoral education is considered the world's best, with international students vying for admission, concerns about its future were being expressed by many groups. These included research-intensive universities, comprehensive and doctoral universities, liberal arts and community colleges, doctoral students, business and industry, foundations, government, disciplinary and educational associations, K-12 education, and accrediting agencies. Under the rubric of Re-envisioning the Ph.D., we interviewed more than 375 individuals, conducted numerous focus groups, compiled an impressive bibliography related to doctoral preparation, and inventoried numerous strategies that each of the groups was using to respond to criticisms and concerns in very creative and innovative ways.

The Promising Practices have been posted on the web at
www.grad.washington.edu/envision/practices/

This site links the reader to the actual web site for the practice wherever it occurs, in this country and abroad, or provides contact information. The Selected Bibliography has also been posted to the web site at www.grad.washington.edu/envision/project_resources/select_biblio.html
and is also published in a monograph. In addition, a brief analysis of concerns has been published in a companion monograph entitled, Re-envisioning the Ph.D.: What Concerns Do We Have?

This Selected Bibliography is truly a selected one. People have been calling for change in doctoral education since 1925 or earlier. Whereas a traditional literature review would have turned up potentially thousands of documents, our approach for this monograph, instead, was to capitalize on the insightful input from those who have actually participated in the project as interviewees, consultants, colleagues and assistants. After sifting through and abstracting more than 400 newspaper, journal and newsletter articles, commission reports, conference papers, project descriptions and initiatives, conference materials, and various statements, calls for change, and other recommendations related to reconceptualizing the Ph.D., we printed here what our small research team identified as classic or provocative pieces. As we sorted through materials, certain key themes recurred, and we categorized the items according to these themes. Where entries reflected more than one theme, we identified the predominant one and categorized the abstract accordingly. Collectively, these entries provide a sample of the trends, ideas and opinions regarding doctoral education that have been presented and debated in recent years. You, no doubt, have your favorite texts, and if we have not included them, please let us know. The wonder of today's technology is that it allows the web-site citations to grow and evolve, without requiring another printing.

We hope that the project's three products, the Promising Practices, Re-envisioning the Ph.D.: What Concerns Do We Have?, and this Selected Bibliography, will assist in answering the question of "How can we re-envision the Ph.D. to meet the needs of the society of the 21st Century?" We also hope these contributions will aid in strengthening the Ph.D., the pinnacle of academic accomplishment, whose recipients offer so much to the knowledge society of the 21st Century.