How To Prepare For Faculty Position Jobs - A Complete Guide

This course is primarily designed for the graduate students and newly graduates who are looking for faculty position jobs. A number of graduate students desire to choose academia or faculty positions as their career, however most of them are not aware of how to prepare for faculty position job search and how to proceed through this searching process. One of the key reasons is that faculty position job search is not encouraged by the university career centers, university job fairs, recruiters, colleagues, friends, and family members. The resources for faculty position job search are comparatively much fewer in terms of availability. This course is intended to provide a complete guideline to prepare graduate students (or newly graduates) for faculty position job search. This guideline is prepared for both online and on-campus faculty position jobs.

After completing this course, the student/learner will learn all the steps of faculty position job search in details. This course provides a comprehensive timeline about when to start preparing documents, when to apply, when to prepare for phone interview, when to prepare for on-campus interview etc. It also trains the student to prepare effective application documents, how to prepare for phone interview and on-campus interview questions, how to prepare effective job talk and teaching demo, dos and don'ts of interview etiquette, and all other nitty-gritty of finding faculty position jobs. In short, after completing this course the student will learn the A-to-Z of faculty position job search preparation.