JOB MARKET RESOURCES
Where to Look
Community College Jobs
Academic Wiki (make sure you’re looking at the current year)
Academic Gates (international searches)
National Council on Public History
Career Preparation and Planning
Karen Kelsky, The Professor Is In
Gregory Semenza, Graduate Study for the Twenty-First Century: How to Build an Academic Career in the Humanities
The Professor Is In Podcast
The Professor Is In Website and Blog
Versatile PhD (alt-ac career planning)
Columbia University Center for Career Education
AHA Career Diversity for Historians
Courses and Consulting Services
The Professor Is In (offers webinars, coaching, and consulting)
Beyond Professoriate (offers courses, coaching, workshops, consulting, and webinars)
Advice, Columns, Essays, Books, Podcasts
Inside Higher Ed and Chronicle of Higher Ed Advice Columns
Ivory Tower in the Rearview Mirror: Post-Ac Column
Beyond Prof's Blog on Job Searching During Covid
How to Keep Your Options Open
Applying your PhD Knowledge
What to Do If You Didn't Get the Job (Or the Other Thing You Thought Your Future Depended On), Professor Is In Podcast, Episodes 8 & 9
Why you need a Five Year Plan, Podcast
PhDs Do Have Transferrable Skills (2 parts)
Academics on the Market or Advisors of Grad Students Who Might Be Thusly Engaged
How to Fail on the Academic Job Market
The Professor Is in: A First-Timer on the Job Market?
The Job Market: Picking Apart Your Application
Academic Job Hunts From Hell: Why You Weren’t Picked
Becoming an Assistant Professor
How to Land a Community College Job
Martha Beck, Finding Your Own North Star
Susan Basall and Maggie Debelius, So, What Are You Going To Do With That?
Interviewing
Peter Guardino's List of Every Interview Question Ever Asked
Tips for a Successful Virtual Interview
You on the Market: Interviewing Guides
You on the Market: Campus Visits
Making the Most of a Skype Interview
The Six Ways You’re Acting Like a Graduate Student
Academic Job Interview: Tips to Prepare
CVs and Cover Letters
How to Write a CV for the Academic Job Market
Dr. Karen’s Rules of the Academic CV
Academic CVs: 10 Irritating Mistakes
Why Your Job Cover Letter Sucks (and what you can do to fix it)
Those 12 Sentences: Evaluating Cover Letter Advice
How To Tailor a Job Letter (Without Flattering, Pandering, or Begging)
Teaching Documents
How to Make Your Teaching More Engaging
What is Evidence of Teaching Excellence?
What’s Your Philosophy on Teaching, and Why does it Matter?
Columbia’s Guide to the Teaching Statement
The Weepy Teaching Statement: Just Say No
The Dreaded Teaching Statement: 8 Pitfalls
DIY Syllabus: What Goes into a Syllabus
Research, Teaching, and Researching Teachers
Yale Career Center’s What’s Your Teaching Philosophy?
State of the Job Market and Academia
Diverse Latino Issues in Higher Ed
The Professor is In Blog and Podcast
Survey of Earned Doctorates