Handout: How to get a tenure-track job

From job searches to interviewing to negotiation

Compiled by Stacey Smith?

General resources

• Powerpoint slides from the talk (read this first)

• Jonathan Sterne's page (includes a handy timeline, what to do if your partner is also looking for a job)

• UIUC career centre (excellent and comprehensive resource)

• Academic job search handbook by Mary Morris Heiberger and Julia Vick

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  Related workshops

• Alexandra Hogan's tips for conference newbies (for students)

• Rebecca Everett's tips for attending in-person conferences

• Shelby Scott's "I Hate Grad School and You Can Too!" (for grad students)

• Angie Peace's Thriving Your Way Through Graduate School (for grad students)

• Rebecca Everett's tips on what she wished she'd known as a postdoc (for postdocs)

• Josh MacDonald's advice for applying for postdoctoral funding (for postdocs)

• Angie Peace's advice for the postdoc/assistant professor journey (for postdocs and assistant profs)

• Lihong Zhao's advice for thriving as an international trainee (for international trainees)

• Meghan Burke's tenure workshop (for assistant professors)

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  Places to look

• SMB digest (especially for math biology)

• American Math Society (quite comprehensive for jobs in math)

• SIAM (applied math only)

• mathjobs (you and your referees upload everything onto the website)

• Chronicle of Higher Education (complete listing of jobs in all areas)

• Higher Ed Jobs

• HigherEd360

• IDDjobs (infectious disease dynamics positions)

• Eco Evo Jobs (ecology and evolution positions)

• University Affairs (for jobs in Canada)

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  Other important sites

• Interfolio (your referees only need to upload letters here once and then you control how often you mail them out; you can upload everything)

• Grant resource

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  Sample documents (Exactly what I used to get my tenure-track job)

• Cover letter

• CV

• Research statement

• Teaching Statement

  Good luck!