Seeking a Faculty Job

Joseph Barber advises on how to discuss with family and friends over the holidays what exactly it is you do as a Ph.D. student or postdoc.

This is one of the wrong questions that students often ask when they consider career plans, writes Christine Kelly.

We need to find better ways to evaluate faculty members in professional disciplines for tenure and promotion -- a sort of "professional analytics," Michael Bugeja argues.

By helping you network and practice your pitch, among other things, they can be crucial to an effective job search, says Joseph Barber.

We should question the beliefs that we hold about career success, writes Stephanie K. Eberle, and explore how they can sometimes stand in our way.

Joseph Barber provides advice for avoiding them in your CV, résumé or interview answers.

You have to hone your public-speaking and other communications skills to compete for attention in today's job market, writes James M. Van Wyck.

Joseph Barber offers advice on how to sound knowledgeable -- and, in fact, be knowledgeable -- about a career field even without any direct experience in it.