2023 Summer Preparing for Faculty Careers Seminar and Certificate Series

The Preparing for a Faculty Career seminar and certificate series is designed to give graduate students and postdoctoral scholars who are either applying for faculty jobs or expect to do so in the next 1-2 years, insight into the academic job search process, the nature of faculty positions at different sorts of institutions, and how to successfully navigate the transition into a faculty career. Participants will practice interviewing skills, understand what makes a job talk successful, learn how to negotiate a job offer, and anticipate their transitions into their desired careers. All sessions are held virtually.  

Sessions are led by faculty, staff, students, and alumni who have experience seeking faculty positions, hiring faculty, or advising individuals about the job search process.

There are two ways to participate:

Option 1: Attend individual sessions

You may attend any of the following 50-minute seminars by RSVPing below. By RSVPing for the following workshops, you are expected to attend the session, but there is no penalty for non-attendance. By attending these sessions, you will learn about each of the following items, but you will not participate in peer editing and will not be eligible for a certificate.

Individual sessions:

  • 7/27/2023 (10:30 AM- 12 PM): 
    • Introduction to Academic Job Searches, CVs and Cover Letters
    • RSVP HERE
  • 8/3/2023 (10 AM – 11:30 AM): 
  • 8/10/2023 (10 AM -11:30 AM): 
  • 8/17/2023 (10 AM – 11:30 AM): 

This option is ideal for students who are ready to learn about these aspects of the faculty job market, but are not ready to draft documents and receive feedback on them for their job search.    

Option 2:  Participate in the certificate cohort

You may apply to be part of the Summer 2023 Preparing for a Faculty Career certificate cohort. For this certificate, participants are expected to attend all sessions and will be expected to bring in drafts of materials to participate in peer editing in assigned groups. If you do not want to attend all the sessions, or you are not available to, or if you do not want to participate in peer editing, consider attending sessions individually.

Applications for the certificate program are open between June 5 and July 3.  Applicants will be notified of their enrollment in the program by July 7.  To apply, please fill out this form.

 Certificate sessions:

    • 7/27/2023 (10 AM – 12 PM): 
      • Introduction to Academic Job Searches, CVs, and Cover Letters
    •  8/3/2023 (10 AM – 12 PM): 
      • Teaching Statements and Demos & CV Peer Editing
  • Participants are required to bring a draft of their CV for peer editing
    • 8/10/2023 (10 AM – 12 PM): 
      • Diversity Statements & Teaching Statement Peer Editing
  • Participants are required to bring a draft of their teaching statements for peer editing
  • 8/17/2023 (10 AM – 12 PM): 
    • Research Statements & Diversity Statement Peer Editing
    • Participants are required to bring a draft of their diversity statements for peer editing
  • 8/24/2023 (10 AM – 12 PM): 
    • Interviewing & Research Statement Peer Editing
    • Participants are required to bring a draft of their research statement for peer editing
  •  8/31/2023 (10 AM – 12 PM): 
    • Negotiating your Offer and Research Statement Clinic and New Faculty Panel

This option is ideal for students who are ready to go on the academic job market in Fall 2023 and are interested in getting feedback on drafts of application materials. Students may already have drafts of their materials, but if they do not, they are expected to draft materials for the sessions outlined above.  

Contact

Questions? Email Kayleigh Anderson-Natale, Ph.D. Director of Postdoc and Professional Development, at kayleiga@uci.edu.