Preparing for success on the job market and beyond

• Understanding institutional fit
• Preparing your job application materials
• Conducting your job search
• Developing your research program
• Advancing your teaching skills

Summer 2024 Training Events

Writing a Diversity Statement for a Tenure-Track application

Wednesday 7/24 11:00am. Online event.

Please join us in this coffee hour on writing a diversity statement for a tenure-track application! Register here.

Offered by the Diversity & Minority Affairs Committee.

2024 Future Faculty Boot Camp

Starting 8/13 Tuesdays and Thursdays for 3 weeks 1:00pm-3:00pm.

Union South and Room 1163, Mechanical Engineering.
Kickstart your faculty job search at the Future Faculty Boot Camp! This six-session intensive program is designed to help you prepare for your job search by guiding you through the process of drafting and revising the primary faculty job market materials. Connect with other postdocs, refine your application materials, and learn strategies for a successful job search. Get your materials ready for the upcoming faculty job season. Questions? Contact Brady Krien (bkrien@wisc.edu). Register here by 8/9.

Offered by the Office of Postdoctoral Studies

Fall 2024 Recruitment Events

Future Faculty Diversity Program

Sunday 10/6 - Wednesday 10/9. 336 Burruss Hall, Virginia Tech

This three-day program provides fellows with a unique opportunity to learn about the university's culture, meet with senior leaders, department heads, and faculty members, and gain valuable insights into life as a faculty member at Virginia Tech. Participants  will hear from internationally recognized faculty members and campus leaders about the interviewing process, strategies for negotiating job offers, and tips for navigating the tenure process. Register here by 8/16

Other Helpful Resources

Faculty Corner – Recorded Interviews/Talks about Becoming a Professor

Do you ever wonder what the joys and challenges are of being a professor? How best to prepare for a tenure track job? How to achieve work-life balance? What the best practices are in running a lab? Learn the answers to these types of questions in these recorded events with University of Michigan faculty. Access the recordings here.

Future PI Slack Group

The Future PI Slack group is an informal peer mentoring group for biomedical postdocs who are interested in staying in academia. They also have channels for those exploring non-academic options. They use the Slack messaging service to communicate about grant applications, conferences, the faculty job search, and other topics of common interest. The community has approximately 500 active members from around the world as of October 2020. Join here.

The Academic Job Search Handbook

The Academic Job Search Handbook is the comprehensive guide to finding a faculty position in any discipline. Beginning with an overview of academic careers and institutional structures, it moves step by step through the application process, from establishing relationships with advisors, positioning oneself in the market, learning about job openings, preparing CVs, cover letters, and other application materials, to negotiating offers. Of great value are the sixty new sample documents from a diverse spectrum of successful applicants. The handbook includes a search timetable, appendices of career resources, and a full sample application package. This fifth edition features new or updated sections on issues of current interest, such as job search concerns for pregnant or international candidates, the use of social media strategies to address CV gaps, and difficulties faced by dual-career couples. The chapter on alternatives to faculty jobs has been expanded and presents sample résumés of PhDs who found non faculty positions. E-book available through the UW–Madison library here.