Timeline for academic job hunting
- Summer-Fall: Identify deadlines for jobs
you'll be applying for
- October-January: Mail
applications (cover letter, CV, letters of recommendation,
sometimes writing samples and other materials-- research
statement, teaching statement)
- October-December (for most positions): Send
additional materials if requested; contact from departments
interested in interviewing you at the annual meeting of their
discipline
- November-February: Convention interviews. Note that not all
positions include this step.
- January-February: Contact from departments
interested in scheduling an on-campus interview with you
- January-March: On-campus interviews
- March-June: Job offers, negotiations, signing
the contract
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| Job listings and career
information
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Interviewing skills
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Negotiating job offers and contracts
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Others resources
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University of Colorado Career Services for Graduate Students
(or your own institution's equivalent)
- Survival Skills
for Graduate Students, Job Hunting in the Academe:
http://library.msstate.edu/li/ssfgs/Internet.pdf
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http://chronicle.com/jobs/2001/03/2001031601c.htm:
Academic Job Searching for Dummies (or, 10 Easy Ways to Avoid
Unemployment)
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Graduate College:
job search process, writing CV's, cover letters, interviews, offers
and negotiation, etc.
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Preparing for the Job Market: Keys to Success.
Minelle Mahtani, PhD, University of Toronto
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Mary Morris Heiberger and
Julia Miller Vick (2001).
The Academic Job Search Handbook. 3rd ed. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press
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