Application Resources
Future Faculty Seminar: http://www.stanford.edu/class/ctl400/
Academic Job Search Resources
 http://www.academiccareers.com (Academic Careers Online)
 http://www.academploy.com (Academic Employment Network)
 http://www.acphysci.com/aps/app (Academic Physician/Scientist Postings)
 http://education.academickeys.com (Academic Job Information in Education)
 http://www.aera.net (American Educational Research Association)
 http://chronicle.com/jobs (Chronicle of Higher Education)
 http://www.ujobbank.com (University Job Bank - includes post-doc)
Academic Curriculum Vita Information and Samples
 The Global Resume and CV Guide, by Mary Anne Thompson
 How to Prepare Your Curriculum Vitae, by Acy L. Jackson and C. Kathleen Geckeis
 The Curriculum Vitae Handbook: How to Present and Promote Your Academic Career by
Rebecca Anthony and Gerald Roe
 http://www.quintcareers.com/vita_samples.html (CV samples from medicine, science, arts)
 http://cardinalcareers.stanford.edu/guides/graphics/Grad%20Publications%200506/CVs%20and%20Cover%20Letters%2005-06.pdf (CV and cover letter handout with samples)
Academic Cover Letter Samples
 http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/639/02/ (English department)
 http://www.jobbankusa.com/resumes/cover_letters_free_samples/examples_templates_formats/ac
ademic.html (Sociology department)
 http://www.grad.uiuc.edu/careerservices/academic/coverletters/SampleAcLetters.pdf (Classics,
History, Engineering, and Cell Biology departments)
 http://www.cgu.edu/pages/923.asp (By Stanford alum in humanities)
Teaching Statement Samples
 http://ftad.osu.edu/portfolio/philosophy/Philosophy.html (Various fields of study)
 http://www2.english.uiuc.edu/rogers/Teaching_Statement.htm (English department)
 http://www.lll.hawaii.edu/sltcc/tipps/philosophy.html (Language departments)
 http://www.physics.uci.edu/~jeff/phil.html (Physics department)
 http://www.fctl.ucf.edu/facultysuccess/professionalportfolios/philosophies.php (Social Science
and Business departments)
 http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~ellard/pubs/teaching.pdf (Computer Science departments)
Teaching Portfolio Information and Samples
 http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/billerb/ (Online example from Engineering)
 http://orion.math.iastate.edu/wagner/Teaching_Portfolio.html (Mathematics department)
 http://www.science.smith.edu/~aguswa/TeachingStatement.pdf (Engineering department)
 http://repo-nt.tcc.virginia.edu/classes/port_mg.html (Engineering department)
 http://www.et.eng.wayne.edu/ssemakula/portflio.htm (Engineering department)
 http://www.fctl.ucf.edu/facultysuccess/professionalportfolios/PortfolioOutline.php (Outline for
teaching portfolios)
 http://www.wsu.edu/provost/teaching.htm#INFORMAL (Formal and informal examples from the
social sciences)
 http://ctl.stanford.edu/handouts/PDF/teaching_portfolios.pdf (Teaching Portfolio tips from the
CTL)
Research Statement Information and Samples
 http://lecs.cs.ucla.edu/~girod/official/girod-research-teaching-stmt.pdf (Ecology department;
research and teaching combined)
 http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/old/graduate/Applying.For.Jobs/Academic/dnoelle/Research/research1.ht
ml (Computer Science department)
 http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/old/graduate/Applying.For.Jobs/Academic/dnoelle/Research/research2.ht
ml (Same person as above – example adjusted for Cognitive Science department)
 http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~davis/cv/JamesDavis_ResearchStatement.pdf (Anthropology
department)
 http://www.engin.umich.edu/students/graduate/aces/researchstatment.pdf (Engineering
department)
 http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~gera/Contact_Information_files/research_statement.pdf (Mathematics
department)
 http://cardinalcareers.stanford.edu/guides/graphics/Grad%20Publications%200506/Dossier%20Preparation%2005-06.pdf (Includes advice for both teaching and research
statement preparation)
Academic Job/Job Search Preparation Resources
 The Academic's Handbook by A. Leigh DeNeef (Editor), Craufurd D. Goodwin (Editor)
 The Academic Job Search Handbook by Julia Miller Vick and Jennifer S. Furlong
 Tomorrow's Professor: Preparing for Careers in Science and Engineering by Richard M. Reis
 So You Want to Be a College Professor? by William Hayes
 Paths to the Professoriate: Strategies for Enriching the Preparation of Future Faculty (The
Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series) by Donald H. Wulff and Ann E. Austin
 Job Search In Academe: The Insightful Guide for Faculty Job Candidates by Dawn M. Formo and
Cheryl Reed
 Succeeding in an Academic Career: A Guide for Faculty of Color (The Greenwood Educators'
Reference Collection) by Mildred Garcia
 The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career: A Portable Mentor for Scholars from Graduate
School through Tenure (Women in Culture and Society) by John A. Goldsmith, John Komlos, and
Penny Schine Gold
 http://www.preparing-faculty.org/PFFWeb.PFF3Manual.pdf (Preparing Future Faculty - science
and math manual)
 http://www.preparing-faculty.org/PFFWeb.PFF4Manual.htm (Preparing Future Faculty humanities and social sciences manual)
 http://cardinalcareers.stanford.edu/guides/graphics/Grad%20Publications%200506/Academic%20Job%20Search%2005-06.pdf (General academic job search handout)
 http://cardinalcareers.stanford.edu/guides/graphics/Grad%20Publications%200506/Community%20College%20Career%2005-06.pdf (Community college academic job
application guide)
Questions? Stephanie K. Eberle, School of Medicine Career Center, seberle@stanford.edu
http://med.stanford.edu/careercenter/