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Academic Employment Book Reviews and
Links
Books
| These are the books to read if you want to teach at a university level.
Get them from interlibrary loan, read them, then decide if you want to buy
a couple. |
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Changing Jobs -- A Handbook for Lawyers in the 1990s (ABA), Heidi
L. McNeil, editor.
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This book has been called pretty worthless if you aren't in the top
20% of your graduating class (and is actually much better than that -- it
is really your placement office reduced to a book), -- the section on teaching
law (at page 290ff) is on target. Is it worth buying the book for?
Possibly.
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The Academic Job Search Handbook (University of Pennsylvania Press,
1996, second edition), by Mary Morris Heiberger and Julia Miller Vick.
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A comprehensive guide that starts with planning a job search and continues
through the tenure process. A large section of sample written materials including
correspondence, professional vitas, and statements of teaching philosophy.
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The Curriculum Vitae Handbook: How to Present and Promote Your Academic
Career (Rudi Publishing, 1998), by Rebecca Anthony and Gerald Roe.
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Samples of C.V.'s for different stages of academic careers an electronic
C.V. guide.
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Finding an Academic Job (Sage Publishers, 1998), by Karen M. Sowers-Hoag
and Dianne F. Harrison.
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What colleges and universities look for in new faculty members, how to match
your credentials to the job market, and how to negotiate a job offer.
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Getting an Academic Job: Strategies for Success (Sage Publishers,
1997), by Jennie Jacobs Kronefeld and Marcia Lynn Whicker.
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The nature of job searches, interviews, and landing the right job.
A section on the do's and don'ts of job searching.
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Lifting A Ton of Feathers: A Woman's Guide to Surviving in the Academic
World, by Paula J. Caplan (University of Toronto Press, 1993).
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Based on interviews with hundreds of academic women.
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Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia (University of
Pennsylvania Press, 1997), by Emily Toth.
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In this question-and-answer guide, Ms Toth dispenses wisdom on surviving
graduate school, landing a job and earning tenure in "pale-male" fields,
and what to wear to academic conventions.
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On the Market: Surviving the Academic Job Search (Riverhead Books,
1997), edited by Christina Boufis and Victoria C. Olsen.
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Other peoples stories on dealing with rejection, the treatment of feminist
scholars by hiring committees, relocating, making a living as a full-time
adjunct, and leaving the academy and finding alternative careers.
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Links
| Links for those who are interested in Academic Life and Teaching. |
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My personal reflections
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Insider's
Guide to the Academic Job Search
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Landing
An Academic Job
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Preparing Future Faculty
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On Starting Your Own ADR Program (includes
additional links)
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H-Net Job Site
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Excerpts from The Great
Essay (on jobs teaching law school)(with links to the
current essay in full). Ok, it has another name,
"Information and Advice for Persons Interested in
Teaching Law" -- but it is the best of the essays available
and tells you what you really need to know.
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Uncloaking Law School Hiring: A Recruit's Guide to the AALS Faculty
Recruitment Conference by Don Zillman, Marina Angel, Jan Laitos, George
Pring, and Joseph Tomain, Journal of Legal Education, Volume 38, Number 3,
September 1988. Can anything written by a committee be worth recommending
-- yes. Make a copy of it at your local law school's library.
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"One thing to keep in mind is that candidates for law teaching in certain
areas--e.g., constitutional law, jurisprudence--are in over-supply, while
candidates in other areas--e.g. real estate law, commercial law, property,
intellectual property, alternative dispute resolution, trusts & estates--are
often in short supply"
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Conceptual and Useful Material
| There are books that are not directly about mediation ... but ... they
either have cutting edge material in them, or, they take a different approach
to a standard dispute resolution tool. If you want to get ahead of
the game, these are books you should read. |
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Conceptual Selling by Robert B. Miller and Stephen E. Heiman. This
book teaches needs based negotiating on a nuts and bolts level (with
a clear conceptual overview) for people in sales. Most job seekers
should read the first two or three chapters. Any mediator who has been
told he or she talks too fast should read the section at page 110 on "Golden
Silence" and the section at page 115 on verbal patterns to avoid -- including
excellent choices of words to use in place of "why."
 Conceptual
Selling This book is very useful for understanding what you need to be doing
in the job search.
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The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense at Work, by Dr. Suzette Haden Elgin.
This book explains, provides drills and discusses how to reduce and defuse
verbal violence. It also explains how to work with sensory modes in
communication. This is one of several books the author has written that explains
and teaches the nuts and bolts of the techniques that will become
a part of the training of the next generation of dispute resolution
professionals. It is also very useful for thinking through what you
might be doing wrong in the job search.
[Other Elgin books]
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Ask the Headhunter by Nick Corcodilos. A different approach -- especially
appropriate if you have been out of school several years or are non-traditional
in your work experience. If you have read Conceptual Selling, it will
really click for you.
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