Career Advancement
These resources cover topics such as developing an effective CV and associated materials, creating and maintaining teaching and research portfolios, crafting application letters, navigating the job market, the job talk, post-doctorates, establishing a research program, and tenure.
American Psychological Association Career section
Blue Lab Coats (2008, September, 12). It’s the season…Academic job search reposts.
Canadian Psychological Association. Resources and presentations on careers.
Ernst, M. (2000 May, continually updated). Getting an academic job.
Inside Higher Ed. Career Advice.
Might, M. Academic job search advice.
Ball, C.E. (2014, October, 6). Research Statements. Inside Higher Ed.
Golash-Boza, T. (2016, June 10). The Effective Diversity Statement. Inside Higher Ed.
Houston, N. (2010, September, 14). Creating and maintaining your CV. The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Kelsky, K. (2015) The Professor is In: The Essential Guide to Turning Your Ph.D into a Job. New York: Three Rivers Press.
Kelsky, K. (2014, November, 3). How much teaching experience do I need? Chronicle Vitae.
Lang, J. M (2010, August, 29). 4 steps to a memorable teaching philosophy. The Chronicle of Higher Education.
The Ohio State University Writing Center. (n.d.). Diversity Statement Workshop.
'The Professor is In’ Blog, Individual posts based on application materials:
Why Your Cover Letter Sucks (and How to Fix It).
Rules for Writing a CV.
Evidence of Teaching Excellence.
The Teaching Statement.
The Research Statement.
Houska, J. A. (2010, December). Entering the academic job market II: Proper preparation, performance, and postmortem for interviews. Observer, 23.
Kelsky, K. (2015) The Professor is In: The Essential Guide to Turning Your Ph.D into a Job. New York: Three Rivers Press.
Miller Vick, J., Furlong, J.S. & Lurie, R. (2016). The Academic Job Search Handbook, 5th Ed. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Stenstrom, D. M.,Curtis, M., & Iyer, R. (2013). School Rankings, Department Rankings, and Individual Accomplishments: What Factors Predict Obtaining Employment After the PhD? Perspectives on Psychological Science, 8(2).
Practical Tools for Navigating the Job Market:
i. Common Interview Questions (provided by the IARR Mentoring Committee)
ii. Questions to Ask during an On-Campus Interview (provided by the Dr. Denise Solomon)
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A Practical Overview of the Academic Job Search (from Stanford University)
Drmsscientist (2013, August 8). Transitioning from grad school to a postdoc. Tenure she wrote.
European University Institute. Applying for a post-doc.
Levine, A. G. (2011, March 18). Recovering from postdoc mistakes. Science Careers.
Pelham, B. Doing postdoctoral work – Should I? American Psychological Association.
Reyes, V. (2017, July 27). How to make the most of your postdoc. Inside Higher Ed.
Walton, A. G. (2014, April). To postdoc or not to postdoc? How to weigh whether postdoctoral training will boost your career prospects. American Psychological Association.
Aguilar, S.J., (2018, January 10). Tips for a successful job talk. Inside Higher Ed.
Feldman, D. B., & Silvia, P. J. (2010). Public Speaking for Psychologists: A Lighthearted Guide to Research Presentations, Job Talks, and Other Opportunities to Embarrass Yourself. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Kelsky, K. (2012, February 23). Dr. Karen’s (partial) rules of the job talk. The Professor Is In.
Kelsky, K. (2015, January 12). Will they remember your topic? Chronicle Vitae.
Kelsky, K. (2015, March 2). The job talk Q & A. The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Stanford University (2011, October 14). The Academic Job Talk.
Clay, R. A. (2009). Building your lab. American Psychological Association Early Career Center.
Danovitch, J. (2010, October 1). Working with undergraduate research assistants. Setting up and maintaining a research laboratory.
Keeley, J. Afful, S. E., Stiegler-Balfour, J. J., Good, J. J., & Leder, S. (2013). So You Landed a Job-What’s Next? Advice for Early Career Psychologists from Early Career Psychologists. Society for the Teaching Psychology.
Burnham, J. J., Hooper, L. M., & Wright, V. H. (2010). Tools for dossier success: A guide for promotion and tenure. New York, NY: Routledge.
Burnham, J. J., Hooper, L. M., & Wright, V. H. (2012, April, 25). Top 10 strategies for preparing the annual tenure for promotion dossier.
Darley, J.M., Zanna, M.P., & Roediger, H. L. (Eds.). (2004) The complete academic: A career guide. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Gray, K. & Wegner, D, M. (2013). Six guidelines for interesting research. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 8, 549-553. doi: 10.1177%2F1745691613497967.
Harris, M.S., (2018). How to Get Tenure: Strategies for Successfully Navigating the Process. London: Routledge.
Rockquemore, K. A. & Laszloffy, T. (2008). The Black Academic’s Guide to Winning Tenure without Losing Your Soul. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.
Survival Skills for Scholars. (10 Volume Series). Newbury Park: Sage.
University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. Planning Your Research Agenda.
Whitaker, M. (2019, April 29). 10 things no one told me about applying for tenure. The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Kovach, S. (2012, April 24). 13 Things You Never Knew You Could do on LinkedIn. Business Insider.
McCollum, L. (2014, December 7). A beginner’s guide to establishing an online presence. Gradacker.
Shumway, K. (2018, August 7). Supercharge your online professional presence for academics and researchers. American Psychological Association.