Contents:

• Cornell Programs and Resources
• Academic Job Search Advising
• Job Boards
• Postdoctoral Fellowship Programs
• Complementary Memberships and External Resources
• Additional Topics

Cornell Programs and Resources

Graduate School Office of Career and Professional Development

• Future Faculty and Academic Careers Programs
• Pathways to Success – Prepare for Your Career
• Academic Job Search Series

Cornell Career Services

• Career Development Toolkit in Canvas

Office of Postdoctoral Studies

Academic Job Search Advising

Cornell postdocs and graduate students interested in exploring or pursuing careers in the professoriate and elsewhere in academia can benefit from programs offered through the Future Faculty and Academic Careers program of the Graduate School Office of Career and Professional Development, the Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement, the Center for Teaching Innovation (CTI), and our institutional membership in the CIRTL Network.

• Academic Job Search Series
• CIRTL Network Online Seminars and Workshops
• Future Professors Institute
• NextGen Professors Program
• CTI’s Teaching Portfolio Program

Consultations and Advising Meetings

Current Graduate School students may book an online appointment with career and professional development advisors and are encouraged to select Associate Dean for Professional Development Colleen McLinn for support in applying for faculty and tenure-track positions.

Cornell postdocs preparing application materials for postdoctoral or faculty positions may schedule individual consultations with Christine Holmes, Director of Postdoctoral Studies, to discuss their job search and application materials. To schedule a consultation, visit the Office of Postdoctoral Studies booking page.

Job Boards

Major job boards

• Chronicle of Higher Education Jobs
• Higher Ed Jobs
• Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC)
• Inside Higher Ed Careers
• Nature Careers
• Science Careers
• Postdocjobs.com
• Times Higher Education (Global)

Additional international job boards

• Academic Careers
• Academic Jobs Online
• Academic Keys
• Euraxess (European Union)
• Findapostdoc.com (UK)
• H-Net – Humanities and Social Sciences jobs online
• HigherEd 360
• Jobrxiv.org
• Jobs.ac.uk – (UK)
• University Jobs
• www.acad.jobs

Discipline-specific job boards

• American Chemical Society
• American Geophysical Union
• American Institute of Physics
• American Society for Cell Biology
• BioCareers
• Digital Humanities Now
• Geological Society of America
• New Scientist
• PhilJobs: Jobs for Philosophers

Local college and university job postings

• Cornell University Listings – This is a listing of Cornell’s tenure-track and non-tenure track faculty positions, visiting appointments, researchers, lecturers, and extension associate employment opportunities.
• Elmira College Listings – All positions open at Elmira College (Elmira, NY)
• Ithaca College Listings – All positions open at Ithaca College (Ithaca, NY)
• SUNY Binghamton Listings – All positions open at SUNY Binghamton (Binghamton, NY)
• SUNY Cortland Listings – All positions open at SUNY Cortland (Cortland, NY)
• TC3 Listings – All positions open at Tompkins Cortland Community College (Dryden, NY)

Postdoctoral and other opportunities

• CIRTL Network Job Board – Faculty, staff, lecturer, and postdoctoral positions relating to discipline-based education and at teaching centers
• Handshake – While primarily non-academic jobs, some institutions post academic jobs here also
• National Postdoc Association Career Center
• Postdoc Opportunities Board – hosted by the University of Wisconsin and featuring opportunities in multiple U.S. institutions and states
• Times Higher Education – Postdoc Jobs

Additional resources are available through the Graduate School’s Careers Beyond Academia Program, Office of Postdoctoral Studies, and Cornell Career Services.

Postdoctoral Fellowship Programs

• Columbia University Society of Fellows – Open to those who received PhDs within the past three years (Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences)
• Cornell Postdoctoral Fellowship Programs
• Institute for Advanced Study – Located in Princeton, New Jersey (Historical Studies, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences, as well as special programs in Women and Mathematics, Theoretical Physics and the Park City Mathematics Institute)
• Marshall Sherfield Fellowship – Enables American scientists and engineers to undertake one to two years of postdoctoral research in the United Kingdom
• National Academy of Education / Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowships
• NSF Postdoctoral Fellowships
• Princeton Society of Fellows
• UCLA GRAPES Funding Search Tool
• University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
• University of Michigan Society of Fellows

Complementary Memberships and External Resources

All graduate students and postdocs can access online webinars offered through The National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD). Individual NCFDD memberships are available for free to all Cornell community members as a benefit of Cornell’s Institutional membership. Resources provided by the NCFDD include 14-Day Writing Challenges, Monday Motivators, Dissertation Success Training Modules, Guest Expert Webinars, and more!

CIRTL is a worldwide future faculty preparation effort with branches at more than 45 universities, including at Cornell. Participate in online workshops, courses, and institutes on diversity in the college classroom, Individual Development Plans (IDPs), the academic job search, and many additional topics in the areas of teaching and research mentoring. Please feel free to contact Associate Dean for Professional Development Colleen McLinn (futurefaculty@cornell.edu) with any questions. CIRTL Network programs are available to all Cornell graduate students, postdocs, faculty, and staff, plus Graduate School alumni and recent Cornell postdocs.

See: Other Free Memberships

Additional Resources

• Application Materials for Faculty Positions – UCSF Office of Career and Professional Development
• How to Get an Academic Job – A 2024 five-part article series from the authors of the Academic Job Search Handbook, available in full-text in the Cornell University Library system.
• The Academic Job Search Handbook – Available in Cornell University Library system
• The Professor Is In – Dr. Karen Kelsky’s blog and information about her books and services
• The Importance of Informational Interviews – a 2020 Inside Higher Ed Carpe Careers article by Dr. Christopher T. Smith
• Resources and Advice for the Academic Job Search – A 2021 blog post with recent updates by Dr. Christopher T. Smith
• How Much Has Faculty Pay Changed Over Time? – from the Chronicle of Higher Education
• A Scientific Approach to Navigating the Academic Job Market. – A 2022 article by S. Beas and K.A. Cummings from  Neuropsychopharmacology.
• Cell Mentor – Get Hired – an online resource from Cell Press and Cell Signaling Technology.
• Helping Graduate Students with Disabilities Navigate Job Transitions – A March 2020 Inside Higher Ed article by CIRTL Network colleague Dr. Brian Rybarczyk and Dr. Allison Gose.
• To Disclose or Not to Disclose? – An October 2016 Inside Higher Ed article by Dr. Sue Levine