Seeking a Faculty Job

Jovana Milosavljevic Ardeljan explores how students can best navigate academe’s hidden curriculum of implicit and unwritten expectations, values and rules.

Shoba Subramanian, Maggie Gardner and Beth Bodiya share advice for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and educators on how to develop trainee networks for enhancing professional growth during training and beyond.

People can progress and grow in different ways, writes Lauren Easterling, who raises questions to help you think through what that might specifically look like for you.

The networking process unfolds over several years, and you should slowly navigate your connections toward more purposeful engagement in the future, writes Andrew Crain.

Joseph Barber gives advice on how to transform a meandering and unfocused answer to a job interview question into a mini story with structure, drama and a relevant outcome.

Brian Rybarczyk and Meredith Jeffers review how the events of the past year have changed the market and how you can ready yourself to put forth a competitive application.

When asked in job interviews why you’re leaving academe, talk less about what’s driving you away and more about what’s attracting you toward something new, advises Derek Attig.

Tina Solvik offers five practical steps to help you determine the best fit and derive the most benefit.