Faculty Job Search Series (FJSS)

Not ready to choose between a faculty career and an industry path? You don’t have to! This workshop will help you navigate both job searches at the same time, including how academic and industry timelines differ, what effective networking looks like in each environment, and how to prepare strong materials for multiple sectors simultaneously. Whether you’re exploring options or planning a dual-track search, you’ll leave with strategies to keep both pathways open.

This virtual panel conversation features new faculty who have successfully navigated the search process to land a faculty role at MIT. Learn more about the specific challenges involved in the search and strategies you can use to meet them in your own journey. After the formal panel discussion, the panel will welcome audience questions.

This virtual panel conversation features new faculty who have successfully navigated the search process to land a faculty role at MIT. Learn more about the specific challenges involved in the search and strategies you can use to meet them in your own journey. After the formal panel discussion, the panel will welcome audience questions.

What makes a STEM research statement successful? Hear from recent MIT alumni and current MIT faculty about their experiences writing research statements and/or evaluating them as members of a search committee. Get an expert perspective on mistakes to avoid, where to focus, and what you can leave out. For those on the faculty job search, this panel will be particularly useful as you prepare and refine your application materials.

How can anyone summarize their entire academic experience in just a few pages of text? Do you really need to include that terrible summer research internship you had in 2022? You might have more than a few questions like this, and CAPD is here to help you think through some answers. Join this workshop to learn more about the academic CV genre. We’ll look at examples, and there will be plenty of time for questions.

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How can you communicate your commitment to quality teaching that facilitates learning? How should you describe your pedagogical philosophy? If you’re writing a teaching statement for your faculty job applications, you might be asking yourself questions like these. Join Ben Hansberry from MIT’s Teaching and Learning Lab as we discuss these questions and consider some practical strategies to get you started or get back on track.

Academic cover letters for faculty job applications are a little bit different than your typical industry cover letter. Join us to learn more about this specific document, what it should include, and how you can use it to make an impact. In this workshop, we will go over the document and its typical format, discuss strategies to highlight your skills and accomplishments, and review some examples and address individual questions. To make the most of this workshop, please consider bringing your own academic cover letter draft to share and gather feedback from the group.

Many faculty enjoy rewarding careers at colleges and universities that primarily emphasize teaching, including liberal arts colleges, community colleges, and regional comprehensive universities. This free one-day regional conference being held in-person at Worcester State University brings together graduate students, postdocs, and faculty to discuss what it’s like to work at teaching intensive institutions and how to apply for these faculty positions. Graduate students and postdocs will engage with faculty and deans from a range of teaching-intensive institutions across the New England region through a series of talks, panel presentations, and networking opportunities. Information will be continually updated on the TTII conference website below.

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As a graduate student or postdoc, you will continue to advance in your teaching practice, particularly if you intend to pursue a career in academia. Your role as an educator can seem to take quantum leaps, from grading problem sets and papers to running recitations, taking responsibility for an entire class or section, and eventually advancing to instructor of record as you begin to teach classes of your own design.  This compound workshop and panel event will help you to place these transitions within a developmental perspective that focuses on your own learning as an emerging educator.

In this workshop, we’ll explore what makes a job talk effective and engaging. How can you use this opportunity to connect with search committees, faculty, and students? What are some best practices and key tips?  

We’ll also look ahead and discuss how to negotiate your job offer. Learn common components of a faculty job offer and reflect on what elements you might consider negotiating. Determine how to quantify and explain your needs when you provide a counter-offer.