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Use these tools and resources to find your ideal job in higher education:
- Career Advice: Explore HERC’s career resources to get help with career planning, networking, leadership, and other topics and to sign-up for our monthly enewsletter. HERC also offers free ebooks, including Having Our Say: Black Voices on Working in Higher Education, Veterans Transitioning into Higher Ed, and How to Apply for Higher Education Careers: A Guide for Job Seekers with Disabilities.
- Job Board: Browse job postings or use our search tool to find faculty, staff, and executive positions, including IT, engineering, logistics, mechanical, administrative, and health care jobs. Sign up for a free account to apply for jobs and access other tools and resources.
- Job Seeker Profile: Our job posters (i.e., colleges, universities, and other institutions of higher education) can search for candidates using our resume/CV database. To be included in our resume/CV database, you need to create a job seeker profile.
- Custom Job Alerts: Once you start a free account, you can create a job alert and get an email notification whenever new jobs fitting your criteria are published on HERCJobs.org. You can set up multiple job alerts and change or delete them easily.
- Dual Career Resources: Use HERC’s dual career search to find jobs that meet both you and your partner’s job search criteria. Check out a list of institutions with dual career campus programs.
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HERC’s Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Diversity and inclusion are vital to the present, and future, of the higher education workforce.
Diverse, inclusive institutions generate innovative solutions, develop organizational resiliency, and reflect our increasingly interconnected world. A diverse workforce is a critical component of inclusive higher education communities. Diverse faculty and staff advances academia’s efforts to expand students’ intellectual horizons, catalyze groundbreaking discoveries, incubate social movements, and spark visionary arts. A diverse learning environment also equips students to navigate, and lead, our pluralistic society.
HERC believes a diverse academic workforce deserves an inclusive academic workplace. To that end, HERC works to ensure higher education institutions are sites of belonging, where all faculty and staff can thrive.
HERC defines diversity as including age, ancestry, class, color, disability (mental and physical, including HIV and AIDS), domestic partnership or marital status, educational background, family status, gender identity and expression, genetic information, ethnicity, immigration status, medical condition, military and veteran status, national origin, race, religion, sex (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and medical conditions related to pregnancy), sexual orientation, and socio-economic status. We follow the lead of diverse communities and aim to mirror the ever-evolving language they use to define themselves.
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