the Academic Job Search
copyright © 2004-2007 by Mary
Bucholtz, University of California, Santa Barbara
Finding job listings
General
- Linguist List
U.S. and international listings, both academic and industry.
Academic
- Academic Careers Online
Worldwide listings for academic, administrative, and staff positions in
colleges, universities, and community colleges.
- Academic Keys
Listings mostly for U.S. academic and adminstrative positions.
- American Anthropological Association
Listings for the U.S. and Canada in anthropology and related fields.
- American Association for Applied
Linguistics
Listings for the U.S. and Canada, mostly involving some aspect
of language pedagogy.
- Chronicle of Higher Education
Listings mostly for U.S. academic positions, particularly for
teaching schools and for positions outside of linguistics departments.
- Job Central
Job listings related to foreign languages from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.
- Modern Language Association
A paid subscription service listing jobs in English and modern
language departments.
- TedJob.com
Academic, administrative, staff, and postdoc positions, mainly in the
U.S.
and Canada.
Industry
- Colibri
Computational linguistics jobs in academia and industry, especially
in Europe. Site currently has many bad links; contact webmaster.
- Creative Careers for
Linguists
A Google Group for discussing interdisciplinary academic and nonacademic
career issues.
- Linguistic Enterprises
Industry jobs in all areas of linguistics.
- PhDsWork
No longer maintained, but contains useful information and links
about Ph.D.s in business.
- WRK4US
An international discussion list for nonacademic careers for M.A.s
and Ph.D.s in the humanities, social sciences, and education.
Timeline
(very rough and
for academic jobs only; industry jobs generally have no fixed timeline)
- Summer-Fall: Identify
deadlines for jobs you'll be applying for.
- October (for most
positions): Mail applications (cover letter, CV, letters of recommendation,
sometimes writing samples and other materials-- research statement,
teaching statement)
- October-December (for
most positions): Send additional materials if requested; contact
from departments interested in interviewing you at the annual
meeting of their discipline.
- November-January:
Convention interviews (AAA: November; MLA: December; LSA: January).
Note that not all positions include this step.
- January-February:
Contact from departments interested in scheduling an on-campus
interview with you (i.e., the "fly-back")
- January-March: On-campus
interviews
- March-June: Job offers,
negotiations, signing the contract
Job-hunting resources
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