“How to Apply for Higher Education Careers – Revised Edition” includes tips on translating your soft skills and other proficiencies into a career-change resume.
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There are a lot of job opportunities for professionals like you at higher education institutions, labs, and hospitals!
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. HERC remains committed to our mission to support our unique community of human resources, faculty affairs, and related professionals in the recruitment and retention of faculty, staff, and executives in higher education. This means supporting a broad range of job seekers in obtaining and advancing in higher education careers and providing our member institutions with the resources and opportunities for dialogue to promote equitable and inclusive recruitment and retention policies and practices. Working together, we can create inclusive workplaces where people of all backgrounds and perspectives can thrive.