Discipline Specific Resources
Arts & Humanities Professional Societies
Art & Art History - College Art Association, includes CV guides and samples and job search engine
Classics - American Philological Association Job Placement site, includes advice and job listings, as well as secondary language teacher positions
Dance - American Alliance for health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, includes academic and non-academic job search engine
Drama/Theatre - California Educational Theatre Organization has a job search page
East Asian Studies - Association for Asian Studies, currently restricted to AAS members, they are working on career advice portion
English - MLA Job Information List, search engine only, access restricted to members or students in departments that are members. The MLA Guide to the Job Search: A Handbook for Departments and for PhDs and PhD Candidates in English and Foreign Languages. New York: MLA, 1997.
Film & Media Studies - Society for Cinema and media Studies, Membership or institutional membership required, contact department to check, Job List
French & Italian - American Association for Applied Linguistics, lists some academic jobs for various foreign language faculty. Also check MLA
German - American Association of Teachers of German, database of available teaching jobs. Also examine MLA and aaal.org
History, Humanities, Social Sciences and Rhetoric and Composition - Has academic job listings for all fileds listed.
History - American Historical Association Job Search site, members only.
- Perspectives on the job search and applying to specific colleges
Linguists - Website providing for non-academic careers for linguists and foreign language speakers, includes specific job links and model resumes
Music - American Musicological Society webpage describing listserve where academic jobs are posted
- National Association for Music Education - Search engine for teaching jobs at all levels and administration)
Philosophy - American Philosophical Association Job Search database, restricted to members only
Spanish and Portuguese - Job listing academic and teaching positions, costs $100 to post job openings, may have better luck with Chronicle
Studio Art - College Art Association, includes CV guides and samples and job search engine
Women’s Studies - National Women’s Studies Association job listings
Social Sciences, Social Ecology, Education
Anthropology - American Anthropological Association job search engine both nonacademic and academic, good links at the bottom of the page
Chicana/Chicano and Latin Studies - National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies, jobs listed on front page
Criminology - American Society of Criminology, Academic Job Search listing
Economics - American Economic Association job search website with outstanding guide for the academic job market
Statistics-The American Statistical Association. Job board is open to members only, membership fee is $25
Southern California Chapter of the American Statistical Association. Small job board, membership fee is only $6 for students
Education – American Education Research Association
Environmental Health - National Environmental Health Association, job listings
Planning, Policy and Design - American Planning Association, job search, includes information about evaluating careers in planning
CA Planning, Policy and Design-California Chapter of the American Planning Accociation
Political Science - American Political Science Association, tips on job search and applying (Job search page)
Psychology - American Psychological Association job site, includes CV dos and don’ts, interview tips, surviving grad school, AND N/A job options, though no listings
Sociology - American Sociological Association Job Search, restricted to members
Technical, Physical, Biological Sciences, Engineering and ICS Professional Societies
Biomedical Engineering - Links to job postings
Cell Biology - American Society for Cell Biology, includes downloadable guides for research and teaching jobs, job search board
Chemical Engineers – American Institute of Chemical Engineers, tips available to members only
Chemistry - Career Resources (Job Search Page)
Civil Engineers - American Society of Civil Engineers, includes academic and non-academic, internships. Job Search and Career Development tips provided to members only
Earth Systems Science - American Geological Institute, includes career opportunities, job listings
Ecological and Evolutionary Biology - Ecological Society of America, job postings, internships and searchable job forum
Electrical Engineering - IEEE outstanding career development resources, job listings
Information & Computer Science - Computing Research Association, Job list
Mathematics - American Mathematical Society, job search and great advice for new PhDs, includes academic and non-academic job ideas
Materials Science -The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, job postings, mostly academic
Mechanical Engineers - American Society of Mechanical Engineers, great non-academic and academic job search engine, general advice on resume and industry jobs, networking etc.
Microbiology - American Society of Microbiologists, great job search engine and articles, also includes postdoc links and some general career development resources
Molecular Biology - American Society for Biochemistry and Microbiology, job listings
Neurology - American Neurological Association Academic Job Postings
Pharmacology - American Pharmacists Association, job search page
Physics - American Physical Society Search engine and Professional development page, including good .pdf file on preparing for professional position
Physiology and BioPhysics - American Physiological Society Job Search page
