Academic Employment Resources

ASA Employment Links
This link provides other, non-ASA related employment sites.

ASA Employment Bulletin-Previous
Issues In print form by subscription or available on the ASA Home Page: On-line Employment Bulletin. This link lists the previous employment bulletins available to be viewed.

The Chronicle of Higher Education's Academe Today
Drawn from the best print source for information and news about higher education today, this source contains advertisements for thousands of jobs in and out of academia. Usually a small number of advertisements for sociologists each week, it is the second best source for academic employment information.

Academic Position Network (APN)
Listings of faculty, staff, administrative, graduate fellowship and assistantship, and post-doctoral positions are available at this site. This appears to be a promising internet site for academic employment.

Academic Employment Network
This sites contains advertisements for educational employment opportunities for educators and other school-related positions. This is a potentially useful source for job-seekers, but there are presently very few positions relevant to sociologists listed here.

Corporate Employment Links

C'net's Employment Express Search
This is an excellent point of departure for an internet job search. The employment table of contents contains links to several major online services.

CareerPath.com
The help wanted ads from 24 major metropolitan newspapers are compiled into a single database that may be searched from your workstation. Sociologists giving it a try might be surprised by the results!

CareerMosaic J.O.B.S.
A flexible database that enables the user to search with a job description or job title, by a company name, by state, and even by country.

The Monsterboard
Amusing site offers a variety of services to users including resume help, employer profiles, and a job database.

NationJob Network - Online Job Database
Easy to use site with lots of services.

Government Employment Resources

FedWorld
Updated five days a week, the FedWorld's job announcement service allows you to search a database of about 1,500 US Government job announcements.

Federal Jobs Digest (FJD)
As the largest employer in the US, the federal government ought to have some positions for social scientists. They are here! This service is provided by a private company. Sociologists may search for themselves or hire FJD's matching service.

Note: The ASA's Career Resources publication MASTERING THE JOB MARKET, available for $6.00 for members and $10.00 for non-members includes a section on the electronic job search. The booklet is oriented to sociologists with MA and PhD degrees looking for positions in the academy and in sociological practice.

(The Eastern Sociological Society has drawn this list of resources verbatim from the ASA which itself acknowledges the contribution by David Waller, University of Texas at Arlington and the ASA Committee on Employment for launching their employment link.)