If you are interested in educational policy, advocacy, faculty and student affairs, and organization, you can consider a career in Higher Education Administration.
Center for Career Exploration
Careers in Academia
The Chronicle of Higher Education is the premier source for higher education job listings. It’s also the best source for getting the inside scoop on the nature of the market in any given year. Each year The Chronicle publishes first-person accounts of life on the market as well as advice from the pros, including faculty who’ve served on search committees
Although the process of looking for a faculty appointment differs from discipline to discipline, all searches require an expenditure of time preparing materials to send out to prospective employers. In addition to cover letters, CV’s, and preparing for interviews and job talks, you will correspond with the institutions you’ve applied to and travel to conferences and universities for interviews.
- Interfolio Blog is a good source for Brown CV Samples of faculty and postdoc positions at universities, research labs, and within different industries. It also contains information on a variety of topics touching on academic life and careers, including tips on organizing and planning the academic job search.
- Navigating the Academic Job Market
- Three Tips for Organizing the Job Search
- Administration 101 (topics in administration and leadership in academia)
Academic Job Websites
These are the most common websites for faculty and research job searching. All of them also include non-faculty/non-postdoc but higher education administration, non-academic research, and nonprofit opportunities for students with advanced degrees.
Academic Jobs Wiki posts and tracks searches in various categories for academic opportunities mainly in Humanities and Social Sciences such as faculty and Postdocs Fellowships.
The Chronicle of Higher Education has the nation’s largest newsroom dedicated to covering colleges and universities. As the unrivaled leader in higher education journalism, it services the readers with indispensable real-time news and deep insights, plus the essential tools, career opportunities, and knowledge to succeed in a rapidly changing world.
EducationJobSite is for K-12 education job opportunities across the United States.
The American Educational Research Association job board focuses on the positions in the education research field.
HigherEdJobs is the leading source for jobs in academia, including faculty, administrators and executive positions.
The Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC) is a non-profit consortium of colleges, universities, hospitals, research labs, government agencies, and related non- and for-profit organizations, committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the higher education workforce.
Humanities and Social Sciences Online (H-Net) is an independent, non-profit scholarly association that offers an open academic space for scholars, teachers, advanced students and related professionals. It posts job opportunities around the world for doctoral students in Humanities and Social Sciences.
The Job List, published by the Modern Language Association, features announcements for available positions in humanities fields in and outside academia. The site is recognized as a resource for highly qualified candidates seeking faculty positions at North American colleges and universities, as well as administrative and nonprofit jobs.
Job opportunities in STEM, including faculty and non-faculty positions worldwide.
University Positions is a leading academic career portal for researchers, university lectures and professors in the EU.
Center for Language Studies and Office of Postdoc Affairs at Brown offer workshops on faculty job search every fall semester. Please check their event calendar regularly.