Job Hunting Resources

• General advice:
  • Tao Xie has a number of great links. (Cached version)
  • Stephanie Weirich has put together a number of useful resources and advice. (Cached Version)
  • Articles about looking for Non-Academic Careers for PhDs from the Chronicle of Higher Education. They're for any PhD, so some of them may not be relevant for CS folks, but they have interesting articles on thinking outside the box.
  • a set of decent general purpose job hunting tips. Developed for the general community, but still relevant.
• Where to find jobs. Unfortunately the sites that I knew of are password protected. But I have a snapshot that should get you started. :)
  • a listing of sites that advertise jobs
  • listing of individual places that don't offer PhDs and various things about them (including where to look for ads)
  • I put together a spreadsheet with all sorts of information about PhD granting schools (Excel, html), including their URLs, where I found their advertisement, etc. I've taken out all of the personal data (e.g., if I had applied and what the status was) and attached a generic version. It's starts with the 108 PhD granting computer science departments from the Taulbee 1993 survey. They're sorted by quality rating (the latest version available, unfortunately). Places that weren't rated but either gained a PhD program or were excluded because they were in Canada are at the end. You'll need to get new ad information, but this at least will give you an idea of where to look, and also will give you some notion of what they request.
• Other resources:
  • Hedberg maps makes a great map of the top 1200 colleges in the US and Canada
  • good questions to ask on an interview from the Chronicle of Higher Education