Faculty Job Resources

Faculty Job Search Resources

  • (Academic Careers Online)
  • (Academic Employment Network)
  • (Academic Physician/Scientist Postings)
  • (Academic Job Information in Education)
  • (American Educational Research Association)
  • (Chronicle of Higher Education)
  • (University Job Bank - includes post-doc)

Faculty Curriculum Vita Information and Samples

  • The Global Resume and CV Guide, by Mary Anne Thompson
  • How to Prepare Your Curriculum Vitae, by Acy L. Jackson and C. Kathleen Geckeis
  • The Curriculum Vitae Handbook: How to Present and Promote Your Academic Careerby Rebecca Anthony and Gerald Roe
  • (CV samples from medicine, science, arts)
  • and cover letter handout with samples)
  • (CV advice and samples by industry)
  • advice – general)

FacultyCover Letter Samples

  • (English)
  • (Sociology)
  • (Classics, History, Engineering, and Cell Biology)
  • (By Stanford alum in humanities)

Teaching Statement Samples

  • (Various fields of study)
  • (English)
  • (Language departments)
  • (Physics)
  • (Social Science and Business)
  • (Computer Science)

Teaching Portfolio Information and Samples

  • (Online example from Engineering)
  • (Mathematics)
  • (Engineering)
  • (Engineering)
  • (Engineering)
  • (Social sciences departments)
  • (Teaching Portfolio tips - CTL)

Research Statement Information and Samples

  • department; both research/teaching)
  • Science)
  • person as above – example adjusted for Cognitive Science)
  • for teaching/research statement preparation)

Faculty Job/Job Search Preparation Resources

  • The Academic's Handbookby A. Leigh DeNeef (Editor), Craufurd D. Goodwin (Editor)
  • The Academic Job Search Handbook by Julia Miller Vick and Jennifer S. Furlong
  • Tomorrow's Professor: Preparing for Careers in Science and Engineeringby Richard M. Reis
  • So You Want to Be a College Professor?by William Hayes
  • Paths to the Professoriate: Strategies for Enriching the Preparation of Future Faculty (The Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series)by Donald H. Wulff and Ann E. Austin
  • Job Search In Academe: The Insightful Guide for Faculty Job Candidatesby Dawn M. Formo and Cheryl Reed
  • Succeeding in an Academic Career: A Guide for Faculty of Color (The Greenwood Educators' Reference Collection)by Mildred Garcia
  • The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career: A Portable Mentor for Scholars from Graduate School through Tenure (Women in Culture and Society)by John A. Goldsmith, John Komlos, and Penny Schine Gold
  • (Preparing Future Faculty - science and math manual)
  • (Preparing Future Faculty - humanities and social sciences manual)
  • academic job search handout)
  • college academic job application guide)

Dual Academic Career Resources

  • Dual-Career Couples: Keeping Them TogetherLisa E. Wolf-Wendel, Susan Twombly and Suzanne Rice The Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 71, No. 3 (May - Jun., 2000), pp. 291-321, Ohio State University Press
  • Dual-Career Academic Couples: What Universities Need to Know, Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University:
  • Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia, Emily Toth, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, PA, 1997.
  • Faculty in New Jobs: A Guide to Settling In Becoming Established, and Building Institutional Support, Robert J. Menges and Associates, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, 1999.
  • Academic Couples: Problems and Promises, Marianne A. Farber and Jane W. Loeb (Eds.), University of Illinois Press, Chicago, IL, 1997.
  • Academic Motherhood: Managing Complex Roles in Research Universities:

Questions? Stephanie K. Eberle, School of Medicine Career Center,