Careers In Higher Education

Career Information
Job Listings and Resources
Advice for the Higher Education Job Search
  General Advice
  CV's, Resumes, Letters and Interviews
  Working Inside Academia
  Working Outside Academia
  AHANA Issues


   

Credentials Service
The Boston College Career Center now offers credentials services through Interfolio, Inc., a web-based credential file management service.


 Career Information   

Higher Education- Spotlight on Careers
What is it all about? What does it take? What is the work like? How do I get into it? Produced by Bowdoin College.

Careers in Higher Education Administration and Student Affairs


 Job Listings and Resources   

Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE)
ASHE/Lumina Foundation Fellowship Program

Academic360.com
An EXCELLENT site, provides links to over 400 colleges' and universities' job listings, as well as links to various online sources of jobs in higher education.

Association of Graduate Schools in Catholic Colleges and Universities 

Jobs database and resume bank. The purpose of this database is to bring together candidates for advanced degrees from AGSCCU member schools with potential employers in education/academe at all instructional levels. The job candidates include master's candidates in their terminal year, PhD candidates who have had their dissertation topics approved by committee, and postdoctoral fellows at AGSCCU members schools.

AIRS Job Board Directory - Education
Lists both free and pay-to-post job boards in this field.

HigherEdJobs.com
Lots of faculty and administrative jobs around the country.

Chronicle of Higher Education
The premier journal for higher education job listings as well as informative articles about higher education.
BC students and alumni call (617) 552-3430 for your online password. Provide your name, class year and school.

Jobs at Boston College

Scholarly Societies Project
Links to hundreds of scholarly and academic organizations with sites on the Web. Some of these sites list jobs, conferences, and networking opportunities.

The Times Higher Education Supplement - UK & Europe
UK, European, and overseas tertiary and higher education jobs, and updated weekly news.

Where To Find Information on Nonacademic Careers
Excellent collection of links, from the Chronicle.

Scholars At Risk
Works to promote academic freedom and defend the human rights of scholars worldwide, to responds to attacks on academic communities.  They have established the Scholars Rescue Fund that will provide grants of up to $20,000 to institutions that play host to persecuted academics.

Chronicle of Higher Education

Online, The Chronicle is published every weekday and is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. The Chronicle's Web site features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; articles published since September 1989; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more.


Advice for the Higher Education Job Search   
 

   General Advice

BC Career Advisory Network
6000+ alumni who have offered to share their career insights and serve as networking contacts.

Academic Job Search
Excellent advice, from UC Berkeley.

How to Do What You Love
From the Chronicle of Higher Education.

How to Plan for a Career Before You Have One
From the Chronicle of Higher Education.

   CV's, Resumes and Interviews

The CV Doctor
The Career Talk columnists critique 5 C.V.'s submitted by readers.

Am I My Vita?
Drafting your CV and other application materials can sometimes leave you feeling like you're fabricating an identity.

Questions One Should Be Prepared To Answer for Job Interviews
Mary Corbin Sies, Dept. of American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park

How to Write a Statement of Teaching Philosophy
Chronicle of Higher Education

   Working Inside Academia

Getting Started as an Adjunct
From the Chronicle of Higher Education.

What Faculty Members Earn

Navigating the Alternative Teaching Market

A PH.D. in English, unsuccessful on the academic market, finds himself a hot candidate at a job fair for private elementary and secondary schools.

Working as an academic librarian
An academic librarian advises Ph.D.'s interested in that career on how to enhance their marketability.

   Working Outside Academia

Moving to a Nonacademic Career
An excellent collection of articles from the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Outside, Over There
A discussion of the incredible number of Web sites and forums deal with the Ph.D. surplus and work outside academe.

Nature Magazine - Careers page
Brief articles about job hunting in the sciences.

Careers in Educational Consulting
From the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Writing for Corporations
How Ph.D.'s in the humanities have put their doctoral experience to work writing for corporations.

Leaving academe for the pharmaceutical industry
For Ph.D.'s ini the humanities and social sciences

Careers for Humanities Ph.D.'s in Museums
From the Chronicle of Higher Education.

The Risks and Rewards of Freelance Careers in Media
From the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Getting a Real Job in Publishing
A Ph.D. in history finds her dream job as an acquisitions editor at a university press.

Breaking In as a Temp
From the Chronicle of Higher Education.

The Federal Government Is Hiring Ph.D.'s
From the Chronicle of Higher Education.

   AHANA Issues

Cultural Identity: Survival tips for minority graduate students
From Kamala A.I. Greene, a Ph.D. candidate in psychology at Boston University.