Preparing for the Academic
Job Market
Useful Websites
Job Search Resources
Take it from Andrew: The first stop for anyone embarking on an academic job
search should be UC Berkeley’s Career Center website. UC Berkeley’s
PhD counselor, Dr. Andrew Greene, offers an excellent guide for students, complete
with helpful job search websites: career.berkeley.edu/Phds/Phds.stm
University of Chicago Tells All: University of Chicago has three full-time counselors
working exclusively with PhD students. This means they have lots of time and
resources to make some of the best pdf handouts available on-line. Go to their
site: caps.uchicago.edu/grads/academic_job_search.html,
and click “handouts, books, links” to find out how U of C students
rationalize their bitter winters, while we’re lounging in the sun.
The Chronicle of Higher Education Breaks it Down: Mary Heiberger and Julia Miller
Vick have been counseling PhD students for decades, and literally wrote the
book on how to prepare for the academic job market. Their sage advice is featured
through the career links in the Chronicle. Here are some useful CV examples,
with comments from Mary and Julia for how they could be improved: