Academic Employment Academic job searches are often frustrating and stressful. While percentages vary from discipline to discipline, fewer than 50% of all doctoral graduates find employment in academic settings. For those who wish to pursue these positions there are a few caveats.
- You must be willing to relocate, which means starting your career hundreds of miles away from where you attended graduate school.
- You must be able to balance research and teaching. Teaching loads vary from school to school, but increasingly the expectation is for more courses and more "preps."
- You must be patient. The search process is arcane in nature and glacial in speed. Applications are typically due months before screening begins.
Listed below are some commonly used Internet resources for academic positions. The Chronicle of Higher Education and HigherEdJobs.com, only list academic positions, while American Psychology Association and ScienceMag.com list academic and non-academic positions. We are including the Scholarly Societies Project Website which lists over 4000 scholarly and professional society Websites, most with job boards and listings. (We would love to give humanities students a link to the Modern Language Association's Website, but unfortunately, they require a membership to see the job listings.)
Resources for Academic Positions
Chronicle of Higher Ed
HigherEdJobs.com
Scholarly Societies
California Community Colleges
Science Magazine
PostDocJobs.com
American Psych Association
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