Academic Employment Academic job searches are often frustrating and stressful. While the percentages vary from discipline to discipline, approximately 60% of all doctoral graduates find employment in non-academic settings. For those who wish to pursue academic positions there are a few caveats. First, you must be willing to relocate. This may mean starting your academic career hundreds of miles away from where you attended graduate school. Second, 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" for junior faculty. Finally, 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 of the more commonly used Internet resources for academic positions. Some, like The Chronicle of Higher Education and HigherEdJobs.com, list academic positions exclusively. Others, such as the American Psychology Association and ScienceMag.com list both 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.)
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Higher Ed Jobs
California Community College Registry
Science Magazine
Post-Docs.Com
The Scholarly Societies Project
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