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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

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

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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

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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

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