Mechanics of Applying for Academic Jobs
UCLA Mathematics Department

Advice

START EARLY!
Plan on going to the annual AMS/MAA Joint Meetings. Give a contributed talk on your dissertation and participate in the Mathematical Sciences Employment Center (formerly the employment registry). Information about the conference should be available at
http://www.ams.org/meetings/

Time Line

September/October: Abstract due for contributed talk at the Joint Meetings
early October: Ask for recommendation letters
Mid October: NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship Deadline; for more info and an application go to http://www.nsf.gov/mps/dms/.
early November: Deadline to register for the Employment Center at the Joint Meetings
early November: First job applications due
late November: Mail first batch of job applications and arrange for recommendation letters to be sent
Early-mid January: Joint Meetings, New Orleans, Jan 10-13.
February: NSF Postdoctoral Fellowships announced

AMS Application Cover Sheet
Cover letter
Curriculum Vitae
Education, Employment, Awards, Publications, Invited Talks, Conferences Attended, Professional Societies, Personal Information, References
Research Summary
Research Proposal
Teaching Philosophy
Graduate Transcripts
Supporting Materials

Letters of recommendation should be sent directly to Mary Edwards or Julie Honig (MS 6384).
You should send <mary> or <julie> the addresses electronically or provide them with a complete set of mailing labels.
Once your file is complete, letters of recommendation will be sent to the institutions you are applying to by the UCLA Mathematics Department.
As the rules change, you may need to inquire about regulations.

e-MATH
Many different organizations post their job announcements electronically. Links to some of them are provided in the GSO world wide web page. The most popular one for academic jobs is provided by the American Mathematics Society and is called ``e-MATH.'' You can browse the extensive list of employment and postdoc openings at the web site http://www.ams.org/employment/. But e-MATH makes your life even easier than this. If you want, you can receive these listings by e-mail. (That way, you don't have to keep checking back to see if there are any new postings.) Just fill out the electronic form available at the website by clicking on the link ``Employment Listings by E-mail." e-MATH will then send you an email message containing all current job postings you requested. And as new job postings are received, e-MATH will forward them on to you! You will receive about one or two e-mail messages per week (during Fall quarter, the busiest time of the job season) containing all new postings since the last batch you received.
World Wide Web Pages
Graduate Student Outreach has its own world wide web page,
http://www.math.ucla.edu/gso/
Our page includes this handout, the AMS cover sheet (TEXversion), a program for producing mailing labels, and some helpful links. Check it out!