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

Advice from University of Maryland: Dr. Mary Corbin Sies offers advice on preparing for the academic job interview: www.otal.umd.edu/~sies/jobquess.html, as well as an academic job application checklist: www.otal.umd.edu/~sies/jobchecklist.html

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.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Illinois again. The winters are long. Lots of time to make handouts. Their resources are superb.
www.grad.uiuc.edu/careerservices/AcademicJobs/AcademicJobsHome.html

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:

CV for the Humanities:
chronicle.com/jobs/99/09/99091707c.htm

CV for a new PhD in Applied Sciences:
chronicle.com/jobs/2000/10/2000102003c.htm

CV for a new PhD in Psychology:
chronicle.com/jobs/2001/10/2001101203cv.htm

For a list of other CV’s for specific areas, including ecology, art, and education:
CV Doctor: chronicle.com/jobs/99/09/99091701c.htm

For Specific Cover Letter information, see:
chronicle.com/jobs/2000/03/2000030302c.htm