General Tips:
Set up search alerts on the sites below, join societies, and get on their mailing list
Summer is the best time to do a lot of legwork for job searching.
Most faculty job applications are due in October.
Postdocs come through more informal networking.
Regional Searches: Higher Education Recruitment Consortium
For other regions, google “Higher Education Recruitment Consortium”
General Psychology
APS under job opportunities tab (more academic): http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/employment
APA Monitor (more clinical, some non-academic): http://www.apa.org/careers/index.aspx
Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/section/Jobs/61/
Subfields of Psychology
Social: http://www.spsp.org/student/career.htm
Cognitive: http://cognitivesciencesociety.org/employment_overview.html
Developmental: http://careers.srcd.org/
Neuro: http://www.sfn.org/neurojobs/default.aspx
Sensation & Perception: http://www.psychonomic.org/announcements.html
Behavior Analysis: http://www.abainternational.org/jobs/jobsIndex.asp
Conferences & their sponsoring organizations
Check the conferences you go to- most have job postings on their website
Resources at UCSD:
http://career.ucsd.edu/phd-and-masters-students/index.html
Port Triton: https://ucsd-csm.symplicity.com/students/(great stuff to explore in there, even if you can’t stand their workshops)
How to find interesting companies (which may or may not be hiring)
Vault.com: nonacademic, lots of details on job, interview process
Glassdoor.com: sortof like Facebook meets Yelp for companies
Indeed.com: meta site search, like Kayak
Monster.com: might as well… worked for a recent JDP student!
Networking: lots of internal hiring happens without public advertisement, and you want to get in on that pool, which also means being informed about upcoming opportunities. Real-life networking is critical, and can be supplemented with the resources below.
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