Academic Job Market Materials
Some advice and materials that I found useful during academic job search. Thank all the contributors!
🍀 Good luck to your job search!
Useful advice:
- https://www.heesoojang.com/post/job-market-schedule/
- Here are some job search material collected by Professor Yue Zhao at USC. Hope it will be useful for everyone :)
- The job search material preparation by Yisong Yue (Prof. at Catech): https://yisongyue.medium.com/checklist-of-tips-for-computer-science-faculty-applications-9fd2480649cc
- UW job talk list: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTPQEx-31JXj96uJWEKY9MpoqIq_HTSO6
- Full process (Daniel Seita@USC)：https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lmqOBtka-QA4OhOkzq_VlIjfi1Eb4Si6bBgSn8wUknk/edit#heading=h.wqsoyo20cp6x
- Full process (Kira Goldner@BU)：https://www.kiragoldner.com/blog/job-market.html
- https://benlengerich.medium.com/thoughts-from-my-faculty-application-experience-38f1a29c715e
Job search website:
- academicjobs online
- higher ed jobs
- https://jobs.chronicle.com/jobs/tenured-tenured-track/?keywords=computer#browsing
- https://futurefaculty.cornell.edu/resources/academic-job-search/
- https://www.ncfdd.org/ncfddmentormap
- mathjobs.org
- mathclassifieds.org
- https://cra.org/ads/
- ACM mailing list
- https://jobs.ieee.org/
- Siam jobs
- Informs jobs
Database table:
- ddl, location, position type, department, institution, link, documents
- R1, research, teaching institutes
Materials to prepare:
- Statements
- RS: first few paragraphs should be broad to general audiences
- Job talk
- 1&3 min elevator pitch
- Sample interview questions and questions to ask
- Common academic inteview questions
- Academic interview guide
Tips:
- do not say yes on the spot, always negotiate
- thank you note