Academic Job Search Online Resources

Useful online resources I compiled while starting to think about academic independence. // Copyrights belong to the original authors.

Faculty Job Search:

• Advice for Faculty Job Search (Anders Sejr Hansen, MIT)

• Reflections on the academic job market (Anna Gillespie, Wash U)

• Things I wish I knew before entering the Academic Job Market (Meike van der Heijden, Virginia Tech)

• Advice/experiences on the tenure track job market (R1 institution) (Kara McKinley, Harvard)

• Vitae’s The Quick and Painless Guide to your Academic Job Search (Dr. Karen Kelsky)

• Murray SA, Spencer EC, Hinton A Jr. The postdoctoral blueprint part two: the faculty application. Trends Cell Biol. 2022 Jun;32(6):463-466. doi: 10.1016/j.tcb.2022.01.008. Epub 2022 Mar 1. PMCID: PMC9358883

• Future PI Slack

  • 2024-2025 Job Market North America

Job Interviews, Chalk Talk etc.

• PRO TIP: How to give a chalk talk for a tenure-track position in the biomedical sciences  (Leslie B. Vosshall, PhD, Rockefeller)

• Interviewing for Academic Faculty Positions (NIH OITE)

• Thoughts on applying for faculty positions (Arjun Raj, U Penn)

• Snapp EL. How to design a chalk talk - the million dollar sales pitch. Mol Biol Cell. 2019 Jun 15;30(13):1575-1577. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E19-01-0007. PMID: 31194669

Lab Start-up:

• John Hopkins Early Career Funding List

• Goldstein B, Avasthi P. A guide to setting up and managing a lab at a research-intensive institution. BMC Proc. 2021 Jun 22;15(Suppl 2):8. doi: 10.1186/s12919-021-00214-7. PMCID: PMC8218371

• McKinley KL, Didychuk AL, Nicholas DA, Termini CM. The transition phase: preparing to launch a laboratory. Trends Biochem Sci. 2022 Oct;47(10):814-818. doi: 10.1016/j.tibs.2022.05.002. Epub 2022 May 26. PMCID: PMC9677455

• Kong JH, Vasquez CG, Agrawal S, Malaney P, Mikedis MM, Moffitt AB, von Diezmann L, Termini CM. Creating accessibility in academic negotiations. Trends Biochem Sci. 2023 Mar;48(3):203-210. DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2022.10.004. Epub 2022 Dec 9. PMID: 36504139.

• How to Build a Research Team