Getting an Academic Faculty Job in the Sciences

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-292804842011-06-08T04:25:28.797-07:00Getting an Academic Faculty Job in the SciencesA detailed description of one scientist's journey into the academic job market.Joshua Shaevitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13594473596679485236noreply@blogger.comBlogger61100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29280484.post-1159071762540468252006-09-23T21:17:00.000-07:002006-12-03T21:48:40.107-08:006. Interviews

Scheduling InterviewsChances are that if you have one interview you probably have quite a few. I applied to over 15 jobs and ended up doing 7 interviews. After that much travelling I'm happy that I don't work for a consulting firm or anything, being a "road warrior" is not really that much fun (although the frequent flyer miles do add up).I found that scheduling these interviews was pretty

Joshua Shaevitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13594473596679485236noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29280484.post-1159071398425731912006-09-23T21:09:00.000-07:002006-11-15T22:15:31.839-08:005. Waiting for interviews

I sent in almost all of my applications in early October 2005 and didn't receive interview offers until Mid-December. This is a very difficult two months. On the one hand you need to be getting all your data together and collecting your stuff into a good job talk, but on the other hand it seems hard to focus on that when you don't actually know that you'll have any interviews to give the talk!

Joshua Shaevitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13594473596679485236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29280484.post-1156131902692684712006-08-20T19:51:00.000-07:002006-11-15T22:15:31.766-08:004. Your webpage and CV

You need a webpageThis may sound a bit strange, but I do think it is true. This link has a pretty good summary. There were many times during my interviews when it was clear that people had looked at my webpage, and I think this helped me in the end. My current webpage is here, although I've expanded it a bit recently. In general I think a webpage is something to spend a little bit of time on, it

Joshua Shaevitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13594473596679485236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29280484.post-1152735979482687372006-07-12T12:46:00.000-07:002006-11-15T22:15:31.685-08:003. The job application

As I said in the last article I didn't tailor my application to any particular school and instead submitted the same packet to each school. When starting out I asked a few of my recently hired friends for their applications to get a sense of how they are put together. I submitted a cover letter (spend some time on this), my CV, a list of references, and a Description of research and previous

Joshua Shaevitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13594473596679485236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29280484.post-1151300565445232182006-06-25T22:28:00.000-07:002006-11-15T22:15:31.623-08:002. Applying for jobs

Finding job postingsSurpringly, this is almost as time consuming as other parts of the process. There are a few good web sites I used: sciencejobs.com and naturejobs.com, but there tend to be a lot of job postings out there. Because I never fit into any one category on a site, I had to check many of them and always had to search through a whole lot of stuff that wasn't right for me. In

Joshua Shaevitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13594473596679485236noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29280484.post-1150352850763591822006-06-14T23:11:00.000-07:002006-11-15T22:15:31.544-08:001. Introduction

Why am I writing this?In the fall of 2005 I started the long journey into the academic job market as I applied for, interviewed for, and finally landed a faculty job in the sciences. Of course, at first I went to the Web for some general information about the process. While there were a few good sites (which I've linked at the right of this page), I found two things lacking. First, most of the

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