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Landing Your First Faculty Job
Pursue your career at a place you enjoy living - it's no fun being miserable in a little town with no life, if you are really a big city person
Do clever science
Publish, publish, publish
You need to specialize in order to become visible - do not scatter your efforts in many different areas of research
Any good paper/work will eventually find its journal!
Tenure is the prize in academia
Teaching skills are good to have but publications are your true portable currency
Specialize - you will receive more visibility this way than if you scatter your attention in many different direction/topics
To be a full professor you must be known for something
Speak and write good english
If you get tenure, never accept another appointment without it
Submit your papers to the best journals in the field and work your way down (unless you know they are of poor quality)
Find the best possible school for your first job because you can only go down from there
Creat an electronic pool of references which you will use over and over again
Publish early and often
Write clearly
When interviewing for a teaching position with senior faculty, do not overwhelm them with the importance of your work or how prolific you are - they may not have accomplished that much in recent years
Learn to write your papers in a compelling way
Avoid citing references in the abstract
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