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Prepared for the Third Annual Spring Seminar presented
by the
Sociology Graduate Student Association
January 22, 2000
Anthony, Rebecca and Gerald
Roe. 1998. The Curriculum Vitae Handbook: How to Present and Promote Your Academic
Career. Rudi Publishing. ISBN: 0-945213-26-3.
This revised edition includes
samples of C.V.'s for different stages of academic careers and information on
how to create an electronic C.V.
Barnes, Sandra. 1998.
Tips and Suggestions for
Interviewing at the ASA and Beyond.
This is focused primarily on
using the ASA employment service. Available in the Sociology Department Reserve
Reading file cabinet.
Beck, E.M. 1996.
The Job Interview: A Study in
Terror.
Don’t miss this one! Available in the file cabinet.
Billdon, Janet Mancini. 1998.
Mastering the Job Market with a
Graduate Degree in Sociology.
American Sociological Association.
Job search strategies for
jobs in both academic and applied settings.
The key resource.
Booth, Alan. The
Job Interview.
The source of this unknown,
but a photocopy is available in the file cabinet. It is very similar to the ASA publication Mastering the Job Market with a Graduate Degree in Sociology.
Boufis, Christina and
Victoria C. Olsen. 1997. On the Market: Surviving the Academic Job
Search. Riverhead Books.
ISBN:1-57322-626-2.
Based on the assumption that
hearing people's stories is therapeutic and empowering, this book collects the
accounts of graduate students in many fields who have recently braved the
market, some successfully. More than two dozen essays explore such issues as
dealing with rejection, the treatment of feminist scholars by hiring
committees, relocating, making a living as a full-time adjunct, and leaving the
academy and finding alternative careers.
Caplan, Paula J. 1993. Lifting
A Ton of Feathers: A Woman's Guide to Surviving in the Academic World. University of Toronto Press. ISBN: 0-8020-7411-1.
Based on interviews with
hundreds of academic women, this handbook includes suggestions for the job
hunt, preparing your C.V., interviewing, handling job offers, and applying for
contract renewals and tenure. It also includes a checklist for
"woman-positive" institutions.
Careers in Sociology. 1999.
http://www.asanet.org
Dantzig, Jonathan A. 1995.
Landing an Academic Job: The
Process and Pitfalls.
A photocopy is in the file
cabinet. Written for engineers, but
helpful tips for all.
Deneef, A. Leigh and Craufurd
D. Goodwin (eds.). 1995. The
Academic’s Handbook. Duke
University Press.
Extensive coverage of topics
from academic employment to university governance.
Formo, Dawn M. and Cheryl
Reed. 1999. Job Search in Academe: Strategic Rhetorics for Faculty Job Candidates. Stylus Publishing. ISBN:1-57922-011-8.
The authors of this handbook
analyze their own experiences and those of more than 50 job seekers in a
variety of fields, including business, the humanities, and the sciences. They
suggest ways job seekers can use the verbal, written, and visual clues offered
during a job search and interviews to improve their chances of landing jobs.
Heiberger, Mary Morris and
Julia Miller Vick. 1996. The Academic Job Search Handbook. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN: 0-8122-1595-8.
A comprehensive guide that
starts with planning a job search and continues through the tenure process. A
large section on written materials includes sample correspondence, professional
vitas, and statements of teaching philosophy. A two-year timetable helps plan
the search.
Kim, Joshua, F., Carson
Mencken and Michael Woolcock.
1998. “Trends and Future
Directions in the Academic Job Market for Ph.D.’s in Sociology.” The
American Sociologist 29(4): 78-89.
Kronefeld, Jennie Jacobs and
Marcia Lynn Whicker. 1997. Getting an Academic Job: Strategies for
Success. Sage Publishers. ISBN: 0-8039-7015-3.
This guide explains the
nature of job searches, interviews, and landing the right job, and includes a
section on the do's and don'ts of job searching.
Miller, Delbert C. 1994.
Sociologists in the Corporate
World: Academic, Research and Practice Roles in Business and Industry.
http://www.asanet.org
Mobley, Catherine, Stephen F.
Steele and Kathy Rowell. Getting a Head Start on Your Career as an
Applied Sociologoist: A Workbook for
Job Seekers in Sociology. Society
for Applied Sociology.
http://appliedsoc.org
Sowers-Hoag, Karen M. and
Dianne F. Harrison. 1998. Finding an Academic Job. Sage Publishers. ISBN: 0-7619-0401-8.
Two deans of social-work
schools offer advice on what colleges and universities look for in new faculty
members, how to match your credentials to the job market, and how to negotiate
a job offer. One section deals with employment issues affecting academic couples.
Teachman, Jay. 1999.
Applying for Academic Jobs: Advice
form Jay Teachman. NCFR Report.
Available in the file
cabinet.
Toth, Emily. 1997. Ms.
Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia. University of
Pennsylvania Press. ISBN:0-8122-1566-4.
Ms. Mentor was born in 1992
as an advice columnist for woman professors, graduate students, recovering
academics, and those who love them. In this question-and-answer guide, she
dispenses wisdom on surviving graduate school,landing a job and earning tenure
in "pale-male" fields, and what to wear to
academic conventions.
Umberson, Debra. 1991.
Academic Jobs: The Interview and
Negotiation.
Available in the file
cabinet.
http://www.asanet.org/members/members.html
The key resource.
The second best source for
academic employment information. Drawn
from the best print source for information and news about higher education today,
this source contains advertisements for thousands of jobs in and out of
academia. Usually a small number of advertisements for sociologists each week.
This sites contains
advertisements for educational employment opportunities for educators and other
school-related positions. This is a potentially useful source for job-seekers,
but there are presently very few positions relevant to sociologists listed
here.
Academic Position Network (APN)
Listings of faculty, staff,
administrative, graduate fellowship and assistantship, and post-doctoral
positions are available at this site. This appears to be a promising internet
site for academic employment.
This site includes
administrative and faculty job listings at two-year institutions. Go to the
main page and select Careerline. The job listings are updated every two
weeks.
This site lists jobs for
administrators and faculty members in a variety of fields at higher-education
institutions throughout the United States and Canada. Jobs may be searched by
position type or state. The site also has links to related higher-education job
resources and university job sites.
http://www.matrix.msu.edu/jobs
This is a weekly listing of
job opportunities and fellowships in history, the humanities, and the social
sciences. A new job guide is posted
every Monday.
Hundreds of faculty and staff
job openings in a wide range of fields.
http://www2.hn.psu.edu/Faculty/Reed/colinr/index.html
Two English professors,
Cheryl Reed of Pennsylvania State University at Hazelton and Dawn Formo of
California State University at San Marcos, offer candid information about how
to become "literate in the employment line." The site includes a
sample C.V. and job-application letter, discussion of tricky questions in
interviews, and advice for the graduate-school years.
http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/~acadres/jobs/index.html
This site is a collection of
links to internet resources advertising teaching, staff, and administrative
positions. While users may spend some time perusing its links, this site should
be on every job seeker's short list.
http://quattro.me.uiuc.edu/~jon/ACAJOB/academic_job.html
A guide to applying and
interviewing for an academic job, by the chairman of mechanical and industrial
engineering at the University of Illinois.
Information is transferable to sociology.
The Job-List of the National
Adjunct Faculty Guild features job openings for adjunct, part-time, full-time
temporary, and visiting professors from the adjunct advocate magazine.
Full-time non-temporary positions, for which a master's is the acceptable terminal
degree, are also listed. The Job-List is updated every two weeks between August
25 and July 1. The N.A.F.G.'s Web site also has useful resources and links for
academic-job seekers.
http://www.preparing-faculty.org
A collaborative effort of the
Association of American Colleges and Universities and the Council of Graduate
Schools, this program attempts to give graduate students a fuller sense of the
academic profession. This site offers a general overview of the project's
activities. One section includes a list of job-market related links.
Federal Jobs Digest (FJD)
As the largest employer in
the US, the federal government ought to have some positions for social
scientists. They are here! This service is provided by a private company.
Sociologists may search for themselves or hire FJD's matching service.
http://www.fedworld.gov/jobs/jobsearch.html
Updated five days a week, the FedWorld's job announcement service allows you to search a database of about 1,500 US Government job announcements.
CareerMosaic J.O.B.S.
http://www.careermosaic.com/cm/usenet.html
A flexible database that
enables the user to search with a job description or job title, by a company
name, by state, and even by country.
The help wanted ads from 24
major metropolitan newspapers are compiled into a single database that may be
searched from your workstation. Sociologists giving it a try might be surprised
by the results!
Amusing site offers a variety
of services to users including resume help, employer profiles, and a job
database.
Easy to use site with lots of
services.
[1] The following resources have been adapted from a number of sources, including the ASA website and the Chronicle of Higher Education website.
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