Assistantships at UIUC

• Assistantship Clearinghouse is the Graduate College's online listing of available assistantships and hourly positions for graduate students.
• Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES)
• English Department Teaching Assistantships
• Graduate School of Library and Information Science
• Graduate Student Advisory Council
• Student Employment Office
• National Center for Supercomputng Applications

Service learning opportunities

Professional positions

• The Chronicle of Higher Education
• American Educational Research Association
• Association for Library and Information Science Education
• Jobs for Librarians and Information Professionals
• Links for International Library & Information Science Employment, UIUC Mortenson Center
• H-Net Job Guide—positions in History, Humanities, Social Sciences, rhetoric, composition; a weekly index is posted to many of H-Net's email lists
• Academic360.com—a directory of resources for academic jobs
• Higher education jobs—includes resume posting and job agents to notify you of jobs in your area
• Higher education jobs—from The Times Higher Education Supplement (mostly UK)
• Job Review—employment site for education and health professionals (mostly Australia)
• CareerOne—online services for job hunters and advertisers (mostly Australia)
• Critical communication studies—a well-organized site develiped by Jonathan Sterne, U. of Pittsburgh

General job tips

• Networking on the network.—an excellent document by Phil Agre on "helping newcomers figure out where the net fits in the larger picture of their own careers." It includes sections on the rationale behind professional networking, a six-step model of the networking process, the use of electronic media for building a professional identity, and how to get an academic job
• What to expect: Your first year of teaching. Amy DePaul, U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement (1998)