Job-Search Tips

Job candidates with the misfortune to be searching for tenure-track positions this year or next will need as many career options as they can get.

The best practices for increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of your faculty are neither mysterious nor terrifically expensive.

Seven tips from a seasoned practitioner on how to select and get value out of your next online academic conference.

Offered a “graceful exit” and time to search for a new leadership job, a former dean made a different choice and wonders about the fallout.

Nine tips for administrative job candidates on how to avoid the many minefields of interviewing by video from home.

A look at what the Covid-19 crisis might mean for untenured faculty members on and off the tenure track, and for new and returning doctoral students.

A look at what the Covid-19 crisis might mean for untenured faculty members on and off the tenure track, and for new and returning doctoral students.

A common question from job candidates is how to cope with a major disconnect between the place where they earned a Ph.D. and the campuses that are hiring.

What’s most important on a Ph.D.’s application for a tenure-track job might be least important in applying for many nonacademic ones.

In applying to small liberal-arts colleges, your local ties may be worth bringing up in your application.

Hint for candidates: Why should we seriously consider you when you haven't seriously considered us?

Should you think about going back on the faculty job market?

Why write an application letter so dry that even you wouldn't want to read it?

For graduate students going on the faculty market, the job talk is where you can really shine — or very publicly fail.

A primer on the jargon of the academic-job market, aimed at early-career scholars preparing for their first search.

As “headhunters,” we may be able to clarify things for you about an executive search, but we’re not going to coach you.

It’s not just a written record of your credentials. It’s an argument in favor of you. Draft it with that in mind.

Sometimes the financial health of your institution can matter more than whether your position allows you to seek tenure.

All sorts of magical thinking can distort the realities of the tenure-track job hunt.