Career Resources
for Displaced Scholars

Scholars at Risk devotes most resources to assisting scholars who are still facing or recently escaped dangers in their home countries. We work to provide temporary safety, hoping that conditions will improve enough to permit the scholar's safe return. We understand, however, that sometimes conditions do not improve quickly and that scholars can be displaced from their home academic community for prolonged periods. SAR can help to connect these displaced scholars with faculty, administrators and others who may be able to assist with advice, contacts or job opportunities.

If you are a scholar displaced from you home country for more than 6 months due to risk, threat or danger, and are seeking assistance from SAR, please send the following documents to the SAR office (If you have been in touch with our office in the past, please send us updated information as appropriate):

• completed registration form (PDF format or RTF/Word);
• updated curriculum vitae (CV), preferably in electronic form;
• statement explaining why you left your home country, the ongoing challenges you are experiencing, and the kinds of assistance you are seeking; and
• 2 references

Contact us by email at or by phone at (212) 998-2179 for more information.

Other Resources:

Fellowships, Grants and Scholarships

• List of funding sources for non-US Students and Scholars

Job Search Resources and Tools
This section contains career-related resources and tips, including:

• The Academic Job Search: This packet contains resources, including sample CVs, weblinks, general job-hunting tips, interviewing tips.
  
  
• The Non-Academic Job Search: This packet contains resources, including sample resumes, weblinks, general job-hunting tips, interviewing tips.
  
  
• Identifying your Network and Mentors
  
  
• Job Search Strategies & Resources for International
  Students: This packet contains basic job search strategies for international students in the US.
  
  
• Interviewing Skills: Get prepared for the academic job interview.
  
  
• Web links to other online job search resources

Job-Hunting Tips

Organize...your job search. You should have an updated and properly formatted curriculum vitae (c.v). Confidential reference letters from colleagues and advisors may be requested. You may be asked for a writing sample or a research abstract. Transcripts or copies of diplomas may also be requested by some search committees.

Start Early! The heaviest time for job listings tends to be late fall or early winter for faculty positions available during the next academic year. Therefore, plan to start your job search at least one year in advance.

Continue...to develop research projects and submit scholarly works - books, articles, or papers - for publication.

Contact...the professional association for your academic discipline (for example, the American Historical Association, the Modern Language Association, or the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology). Some professional organizations publish job listings in their journal on a national or regional basis. In addition, the organizations usually hold yearly conferences where there is an opportunity to network and interview for positions.

Consider...teaching at community colleges and institutions offering certificate and diploma programs, in addition to four-year universities and colleges.

Seek...adjunct positions or part-time teaching positions (possibly with adult education programs) or temporary research appointments in the interim.

Network...continuously with faculty on campus, your mentors and colleagues from other schools.

Check.. the Chronicle of Higher Education for ads for academic positions. Also, look into job placement or job listing services and other publications.

Realize...that relocation is a strong possibility for many candidates pursuing academic positions. Plan for travel expenses for interviews and moving expenses.

Read...job-hunting manuals for the academic job search for more detailed information.