Stufenleiter der Größe und des Sturzes Napoléons (Napoleon's career ladder) from the Deutsches Historisches Museum
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Skills Identification and Self-Assessment
- myIDP, an interactive web-based tool that helps postdocs in the sciences examine their skills, interests, and values
- Self-Assessment Resources from the Medical College of Wisconsin Virtual Career Center
- Making the Leap: Planning for Career Satisfaction and Success (webinar) from the New York Academy of Sciences
- Career Planning and Self-Assessment Resources from the National Postdoctoral Association
- Self-Inquiry and Self Assessment Exercises from Duke University Career Center
- Postdoctoral Core Competencies from the National Postdoctoral Association
- We Need a Bigger Box (article) from Inside Higher Ed
- How to Make the Most of Transferable Skills (article) from NatureJobs
Career Exploration and Job Searching
- Academic and Non-Academic Careers Series from Duke Postdoctoral Services
- Career Exploration, Job Search and "Careers In..." Videos from the NIH Office of Intramural Training & Education
- Career Path Videos from the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS)
- myIDP, an interactive web-based tool that lists 20 scientific career paths with a prediction of which ones may best fit a postdoc's skills and interests
- Career Options for PhDs from the National Postdoctoral Association
- Career Resources for Postdocs from the American Physiological Society
- Re-Envisioning the PhD from the University of Washington Career Center
- Exploring Career Paths from the Medical College of Wisconsin Virtual Career Center
- How to Search for the Perfect Job from the American Physiological Society
- Career Basics Booklet from Science Careers
- Career Trends: The Informed Job Search from Science Careers
- Moving On: Managing Career Transitions Career Development Guide from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund
- Life Sciences Research and Teaching: Strategies for the Successful Job Hunt from the American Society for Cell Biology
- How to Get a Research Job in Academia and Industry from the American Society for Cell Biology
- Career Advice for Life Scientists, Volumes I and II from the American Society for Cell Biology
- Job Searching for Scientists: Tools, Tips and Essentials (webinar) from AAAS Science Careers
- Fact and Fiction: Careers in Industry and Academia (webinar) from AAAS Science Careers
- Biotech Career Guide from the North Carolina Biotech Center
- Conducting an Authentic Job Search from AAAS Science Careers
- Five Tricks for Finding Employment Opportunities from ACS Careers
Informational Interviewing and Networking
- Informational Interview Guidelines from UC Berkeley
- Informational Interviewing: Getting Information You Can Use (article) from AAAS Science Careers
- The Informational Interview (article) from AAAS Science Careers
- Networking: Building Solid Career Connections (webinar) from AAAS Science Careers
- Expanding Career Networks (webinar) from the Higher Education Recruitment Consortia (HERC)
- Elevator Pitch Builder from Harvard Business School Alumni Career Services
- Networking from the American Physiological Society
- How Do I Create a Professional Network? (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- Coffee in 2002, a Job Offer in 2004 (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
Job Listings
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CVs and Resumes
- CV and Resume Guide from the University of Pennsylvania
- Life Sciences CV and Resume Resources from the UCSF Office of Career and Professional Development
- CV and Resume Samples from the NIH Office of Intramural Training and Education
- Writing the CV from the Purdue Online Writing Lab
- CV and Resume Guides from Duke University Career Center
- CV Writing Guide from Colorado State University
- CV Guide from the University of Southern California Center for Excellence in Teaching
- Resume and CV Basics from Columbia University
- Resume and CV Guide from Virginia Tech
- The Academic CV from the University of Washington Career Center
- Writing the Academic CV from Pepperdine University
- Beyond Academia: Resumes from the University of Washington Career Center
- How to Craft a Winning Resume (articles) from Science Careers
- Creating and Maintaining Your CV (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- The CV Doctor (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- The Unrecommendation (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- Targeting Your CV/Resume for Faculty and Non-Faculty Positions (webinar) from the Higher Education Recruitment Consortia (HERC)
Cover Letters
- Cover Letter Guide from the University of Pennsylvania
- Life Sciences Cover Letter Resources from the UCSF Office of Career and Professional Development
- Cover Letter Samples from the NIH Office of Intramural Training and Education
- Cover Letters from the University of Southern California Center for Excellence in Teaching
- Job Search Letters from the Purdue Online Writing Lab
- The Academic Cover Letter from the University of Washington Career Center
- How To Write Appealing Cover Letters (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- What You Don't Know About Cover Letters (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- Writing a Good Cover Letter for the Academic Job Market (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- Cover Letters for Administrative Jobs (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- Writing a Winning Cover Letter (article) from AAAS Science Careers
- That Crucial First Impression (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- Pay Attention to the Job Ad (article) from Inside Higher Ed
- Targeting Your Cover Letter for Faculty and Non-Faculty Positions (webinar) from the Higher Education Recruitment Consortia (HERC)
Research Statements
- Research Statements from the University of Southern California Center for Excellence in Teaching
- Developing Your Research Statement by Britt Argow, Wellesley College, and Rachel Beane, Bowdoin College
- Research Statements from the Scripps Research Institute Career and Postdoctoral Services
- The Academic Research Statement from the University of Washington Career Center
- Crafting the Research Statement from Pennsylvania State University
- Writing a Research Plan (article) from AAAS Science Careers
Teaching Statements, Philosophies, and Portfolios
- Teaching Philosophy/Teaching Statement Resources from the University of Michigan Center for Research on Learning and Teaching
- The Teaching Philosophy from the Scripps Research Institute Career and Postdoctoral Services
- The Teaching Portfolio from the Ohio State University Center for the Advancement of Teaching
- Writing a Statement of Teaching Philosophy from the University of Michigan Center for Research on Learning and Teaching
- The Academic Teaching Statement from the University of Washington Career Center
- The Teaching Philosophy Statement from the University of Washington Center for Instructional Development and Research
- Writing Tips to Help You Get Started on a Teaching Portfolio from the University of Washington Center for Instructional Development and Research
- Developing Your Teaching Philosophy from FASEB/MSU Teaching Assistant Programs
- 4 Steps to a Memorable Teaching Philosophy (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- Writing Samples and Teaching Statements (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- Writing the Teaching Statement (article) from AAAS Science Careers
- How to Write a Statement of Teaching Philosophy (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- What's Your Philosophy on Teaching, and Does It Matter? (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
Interviewing
General Advice on Interviewing
- Interviewing Skills from the NIH Office of Intramural Training and Education
- Marketing Yourself from the American Physiological Society
- Jumping Off the Ivory Tower: Preparing for Interviews Outside Academe (webinar) from the New York Academy of Sciences
- Interviewing Skills from Nature Jobs
- Beyond Academia: Interviews from the University of Washington Career Center
- Interviewing Skills from AAAS Science Careers
- Navigating Academic and Industry Interviews: How to Make It Work for You (webinars) from the American Physiological Society
- How to Prepare for an Interview (articles) from AAAS Science Careers
- Botching the Interview (article) from Inside Higher Ed
- Preparing for Interviews (article) from Inside Higher Ed
The Academic Interview
- Academic Interview for Science & Engineering PhDs (video) from Duke Postdoctoral Services
- Interviewing for Academic Jobs from the University of Southern California Center for Excellence in Teaching
- Interviewing for Academic Positions from the University of Washington Career Center
- Academic Job Talks from the University of Washington Career Center
- Interviews, Oral Presentations, and Job Talks from the Scripps Research Institute
- Some Academic Interview Questions from On the Cutting Edge: Professional Development for Geoscience Faculty
- You've Worked Hard to Get This Far (article) from AAAS Science Careers
- The Academic Interview in the Sciences (article) from Inside Higher Ed
- Just One Question: The Academic Job Interview (article) from Inside Higher Ed
- The Money Round (article) from Inside Higher Ed
- Interview Skills for the Job Hungry (article) from AAAS Science Careers
- Rules for Science Job Talks (article) from Inside Higher Ed
- Asking the Right Questions (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- 12 Bloopers to Avoid in Job Interviews (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- Think Like a Colleague (article) from Inside Higher Ed
- The 'Be Yourself' Myth (article) from Inside Higher Ed
- The Campus Visit: Interviewing for Faculty Positions (webinar) from the Higher Education Recruitment Consortia (HERC)
- What Search Committees Wish You Knew (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
The Phone Interview
- The Dreaded Phone Interview (article) from AAAS Science Careers
- Phone Interviews (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education Forums
- Don't Phone It In (article) from Inside Higher Ed
Behavioral Interviewing
- The STAR Method: Behavioral Interviews from the MIT Career Development Center
- First Encounters with Behavioral Interviewing from AAAS Science Careers
Academic Job Interviews in the Humanities
- Academic Job Interviews for Humanities & Social Science PhDs (video) from Duke Postdoctoral Services
- Academic Job Interviews in the Humanities from the University of Pennsylvania Department of English
- The Academic Interview in the Humanities: Readiness is All (article) from Inside Higher Ed
- The Answers That Matter: The Convention Interview (article) from Inside Higher Ed
- Minding Your Manners for the Conference Interview (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- Prepping for the Campus Visit (article) from Inside Higher Ed
- Giving an Academic Job Talk (article) from Inside Higher Ed
- Questions They Might Ask You (article) from Inside Higher Ed
Community College Interviews
- Preparing for your Community College Interview (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- The Community College Interview (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- The Community College Interview: What Not to Do (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- What to Ask - and Not to Ask - In Your Interview (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
Negotiating
General Advice on Job Offer Negotation
- Making the Transition to Industry video (with excellent negotation advice for all jobs!) from from the NIH Office of Intramural Training & Education
- Evaluating a Job Offer from the American Physiological Society
- Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide from Linda Babcock and Sarah Laschever
- Negotiating Your Salary and Position from PhDs.org
- The Job Offer Checklist (article) from AAAS Science Careers
- Salary Negotiation, Part 1 (article) from AAAS Science Careers
- Salary Negotiation, Part 2 (article) from AAAS Science Careers
- The Salary Discussion: Walk Away a Winner With the Right Preparation (article) from AAAS Science Careers
- 52 Questions to Ask Before Accepting a Science Job (article) from NatureJobs
Academic Job Offer Negotiation
- Negotiating the Academic Job Offer for Science and Engineering PhDs (video) from Duke Postdoctoral Services
- Academic Job Offer Negotiation from the University of Washington Career Center
- Job Offers and Negotiation from the Scripps Research Institute Career and Postdoctoral Services
- Academic Job Offers and Negotiation from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Negotiating an Academic Job Offer from Carleton College
- Negotiating an Academic Job Offer from the University of Southern California Center for Excellence in Teaching
- Negotiating Your First Academic Job Offer from Columbia University
- Negotiating an Academic Job Offer from the University of Michigan Center for Research on Learning and Teaching
- Making the Right Moves Chapter 1: Obtaining and Negotiating a Faculty Position from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- The Offer: Negotiating a Start-Up Package (video) from NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences
- Evaluating Academic Job Offers and Negotiating Positions (video) from the NIH Office of Intramural Training and Education
- Negotiating a Faculty Position: The Do's and Don'ts (webinar) from the American Physiological Society
- After the Offer, Before the Deal: Negotiating a First Academic Job from Academe
- Handbook for New Faculty Negotiating Starting Salaries from The Canadian Association of University Teachers
- Negotiating for What You Need to Be Successful from On the Cutting Edge: Professional Development for Geoscience Faculty
- Negotiation Tactics and Strategies (article) from AAAS Science Careers
- Negotiate Like a Professor (article) from Inside Higher Ed
- Be Honorable and Strategic (article) from AAAS Science Careers
- Business Sense: Starting an Academic Lab (article) from AAAS Science Careers
- A Dean's Take on Salary Negotiation (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- Negotiating a Better Deal (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- Salary Realities (article) from Inside Higher Ed
- The Etiquette of Accepting a Job Offer (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
Salary Databases
- Salary Information from the Medical College of Wisconsin Virtual Career Center
- Salary.com
- Academic Salary Data from Higher Ed Jobs
- Faculty and Academic Administrator Salary Surveys from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- North Carolina University Employee Salary Database from the News & Observer
Academic Jobs
- Academic Careers from the University of Southern California Center for Excellence in Teaching
- The Academic Job Search from the University of Washington Career Center
- Academic Job Search Resources from the University of Chicago
- The Academic Job Search from UC Berkeley Career Center
- The Academic Job Search from the Scripps Research Institute Career and Postdoctoral Services
- Workshop for Postdocs Transitioning to Independent Positions (video) from NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences
- The Right Institutional Fit: Focus on Diversity Issues (video) from NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences
- The Academic Scientist's Toolkit (articles) from AAAS Science Careers
- The Job Search: You're the One (article) from Inside Higher Ed the Chronicle of Higher Education
- On the Market in a Recession (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- Dissertation Limits (article) from Inside Higher Ed
- Useful Resources for the Humanities Academic Job Market (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
Liberal Arts/Community College Academic Job Search
- How to Get a Teaching Job at a Primarily Undergraduate Institution from the American Society for Cell Biology
- How to Get a Teaching Job at a Liberal-Arts College (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- Applying for Jobs at Two-Year Colleges (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- Do You Belong at a Community College? (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- Two-Year Colleges Not For You? Think Again (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- What Graduate Students Want to Know About Community Colleges, Part 1 (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- What Graduate Students Want to Know About Community Colleges, Part 2 (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- It's a Viable Career Path (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
International Academic Job Search
- Conducting the International Job Search (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- Internationalizing the Academic Career (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- What You Need to Know Before You Work Abroad (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- Online Resources for Finding Work Abroad (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
Non-Academic Jobs
- Beyond Academia from the University of Washington Career Center
- Exploring Careers Beyond Academia from the NIH Office of Intramural Training and Education
- Biotech Career Guide from the North Carolina Biotech Center
- Non-Academic Careers: NIH Intramural Program, Industry,Law, Science Writing (video) from NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences
- Considering a Change in Career? from the American Physiological Society
- Nontraditional Careers: Opportunities Away from the Bench (webinar) from AAAS Science Careers
- Fact and Fiction: Careers in Industry and Academia (webinar) from AAAS Science Careers
- Following the Nonacademic Track (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- Urban Legends of the Job Search (article) from AAAS Science Careers
- Four Tips for a Non-Teaching Academic Job Search (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
Mentoring
- Mentoring Resources from the American Physiological Society
- Getting the Most Out of Your Mentoring Relationships: A Handbook for Women in STEM from the Association for Women in Science
- Finding a Mentor (video) from NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences
- The AAMC Compact Between Postdoctoral Appointees and Their Mentors
- Finding the Right Institutional Fit: Focusing On Diversity Issues from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences Workshop for Postdocs Transitioning to Independent Positions
Lab, Grant, and People Management
- Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund/Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Staffing the Lab: Perspectives from Both Sides of the Bench from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund
- Career Advice for Life Scientists, Volumes I and II from the American Society for Cell Biology
- Managing a Lab and Personnel from the American Physiological Society
- Supervising Staff/Trainees from the American Physiological Society
- Working in Teams from the American Physiological Society
- Navigating the Maze of a New Lab Setup (webinar) from the American Physiological Society
- Effective Lab Skills: Managing People, Projects and Money (webinar) from AAAS Science Careers
- Establishing a Lab (video) from NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences
- Networking and Collaborations (video) from NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences
- Laboratory Management (articles) from AAAS Science Careers
- Project Management for Scientists (article) from AAAS Science Careers
- Academic Finance Demystified (article) from Inside Higher Ed
Work/Life Balance and Dual-Career Couples
- Career Advice for Life Scientists, Volumes I and II from the American Society for Cell Biology
- Balancing Career and Family from the American Physiological Society
- Life & Career from AAAS Science Careers
- Resources for Dual Career Couples from the Scripps Research Institute Career and Postdoctoral Services
- Balancing Faculty Careers and Family Work (articles) from AAUP Academe Online
- Resources for Dual Career Couples from On the Cutting Edge: Professional Development for Geoscience Faculty
- Tips for Job-Hunting in Dual-Career Relationships (article) from Nature Jobs
- Resources for Dual Career Couples from the Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC)
- Dual Career Couples from the American Physiological Society
- Academic Couples: Opportunities and Strategies (video) from the Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC)
- The A to Z of Dual-Career Couples (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- The Logistics of a Dual-Career Search (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- Dual-Career Academics: The Right Start (article) from Inside Higher Ed
- Dual Career Challenges Faced by Women in Science (article) from Inside Higher Ed
- How to Have a Life (video) from NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences
- Balancing Research/Teaching/Family/Other Commitments (video) from NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Dealing With Rejection
- Dealing with Rejection from the University of Washington Career Center
- Unkind Cuts: Rethinking the Rhetoric of Academic Job Rejection Letters from College English
- Why We Said No (article) from Inside Higher Ed
- Some Reflection on Rejection (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- After the Failed Interview (article) from Inside Higher Ed
- When Dreams Collide with Reality (article) from Inside Higher Ed
- The Rejection Letter I Wish I Could Send (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- Making Sense of Rejection (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- Why You Didn't Get the Job (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- The Art of Rejection (article) from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- 75 Reasons You Didn't Get the Job from Radiant Veracity blog