1. The Academic Marketplace Getting a Job
Curriculum vitae
Publish now!
Finding opportunities – use all means,
Especially , phone calls from your advisor
Letters of reference

2. Interviewing Defending your thesis How to interview individual faculty
Ask to meet with students
Tell what you would like to teach
Advanced course
Bread and butter middle courses
Introductory courses
Use their course numbers, titles!

3. Tenure and All That Teaching matters, too.
Publish or perish.
What counts, and how much?
Teaching matters, too.
“He who would save his life (career) will lose it,
and he who will lose his life ... will find it.”
Sometimes the system goes badly wrong.
e.g., Iverson, Salton, etc. at Harvard
There is life after tenure denial.

4. Miscellaneous Resources
Re faculty salaries, see
pages
Re criteria for quality, see my document, “Criteria for University Faculty
Re promotion and tenure, see the UNC-CH Chancellor’s Advisory Committee document, “Presenting an Effective Promotion/Tenure Dossier”