PHD CAREER RESOURCES
(Academic and Post-Ac)*
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?
Mental Health
Planning in to the Void, Prof is In Podcast, Episode 24
(Non)Productivity in the Apocalypse, Prof is In Podcast, Episode 12
Calming vs. Numbing, Prof is In Podcast, Episode 19
The Radical Politics of Self-Love and Self-Care
How to Bounce Back From Rejection
10 Tips for Thriving, Not Just Surviving in Graduate School
Academia is Built on Exploitation. We Must Break this Vicious Cycle
Mental Health in Academia is Often a Forgotten Footnote
Academic Mental Health Collective
Stressed, Depressed, and Unexpressed
More Academics and Students have Mental Health Issues than Ever Before
STATE OF THE JOB MARKET and ACADEMIA
Diverse Latino Issues in Higher Ed
The Professor is In Blog and Podcast
Articles and Essays
How Higher Ed Can Stop Affirmative Action for Rich White People (2020)
House of Cards: Can the American university be saved? (2020)
Higher Ed in Crisis, The Dig Podcast (2020)
Graduate Studies and Campus Closures (2020)
Extinction Event (2020)
You Can't Kill it With Kindness (2020)
That Discomfort You're Feeling is Grief (2020)
Job Market Collapse, Professor is In Podcast, Episode 17 (2020)
Adjuncting is Bad, Professor is In Podcast, Episode 7 (2020)
What is College Worth? (2020)
Stranded on the Job Market? (2020)
Mass Exodus (2020)
For Would-Be Academics, Now Is the Time to Get Serious About Plan B (2020)
The Bleak Job Landscape of Adjunctopia for Ph.D.s (2020)
The University is a Ticking Time Bomb (2019)
How Millenials Became the Burnout Generation (2019)
The Death of an Adjunct (2019)
Job Satisfaction Humanities Ph.D. Recipients (2018)
Are You in a BS Job? In Academe, You’re Hardly Alone (2018)
The Humanities Are in Crisis (2018)
Job Market Arrogance (2018)
Enough of Exploiting Academics (2017)
The Credibility Gap in Academe (2017)
Fixing Our Job-Market Problem (2017)
The Shrinking PhD Job Market (2017)
The Academic Job Market is Tottering, But Nobody’s Telling Graduate Students (2016)
The Troubled Academic Job Market for History (2016)
The Shrinking Ph.D. Job Market (2016)
The Ever-Tightening Job Market for PhDs (2016)
The Job Market for Academics Is Still Terrifying (2015)
Observations from the Academic Job Market (2016)
Being a Black Academic in America
Ph.D. Attrition, How Much is Too Much? (2013)
The Long Haul Degree (2010)