I have just stumbled across a list of job-sites compiled by the AYA career network. Until IT has the time to add these to our official site, you can check them out here. There are some sites included that we haven't run across previously, including overseas jobs, government jobs and consulting jobs. Haven't found the existing list of job sites? Check that out here.
Many employers use phone interviews as a first step in their application process. Some organizations will interview 10-12 individuals by phone and then invite a handful of those for in person interviews. Others interview only a few people by phone, intending to bring all or most out for an in-person interview. Regardless of how competitive the situation is (or feels) phone interviewing need not be a daunting practice! A few tips to consider:
Negotiating an offer in ministry, non-profit work or college/high school work is a different ball game from doing so in the world of business. This article give some good suggestions to new professors about doing so. The bottom line is this: churches and non-profits and small schools have little to negotiate in terms of salary. You may, however, be able to negotiate other things up-front that will make that salary stretch farther, or make your life more pleasant or productive. A small sampling of things recent grads have negotiated
The office of Career Services, with substantial financial help from the Silliman Fund and the Office of the University Chaplain along with great cooperation from Berkeley Divinity School and the Student Book Supply has invited writer
Nora Gallagher 
to YDS to speak about writing and vocation. Those of you who find your vocation calling in writing and those of you that have found writing as part of your path to another vocation will not want to miss this!
February 28 (Wednesday) at 7:30 p.m. in Marquand Chapel.
This has been scheduled to dovetail with Berkeley Eucharist (there will be food in between the two events!).
Nora's books Things Seen and Unseen and Practicing Resurrection have been helpful to many as they consider their vocational calls. For more information about Nora, check out her web page. Nora will be addressing undergraduate students earlier that day, and is on the East Coast as part of a tour of many seminaries and churches. Her new book Changing Light, a work of fiction, will be published in early February.
Every year, as part of the graduation placement survey, I ask students how they found their new job. While a few students indicate other methods, ninety percent of students list one of the following:
Most of us know what denominational lists are, and how to be added to YDS' job lists, but who are these fabulous friends and acquaintances helping lucky grads land fabulous work? Are some grads just lucky to have well-connected friends?
Some are. But most of the folks who found work through their friends and acquaintances used a variety of networking skills to cultivate these relationships. For advice on how to do that, keep reading!
Jobs in the K-12 sector include private and parochial teaching jobs, private and parochial chaplaincies, and private and parochial administrative jobs (such as development, guidance counseling, publications).
New! Another addition to the Episcopal question. This rector from the northeast writes:
n my area appropriate attire for interviewing for a clergy position in a larger and more formal parish would be a suit and clergy shirt - usually a black suit. For women, most appropriate would be a black suit with a skirt, stockings, and pumps. For a smaller and much less formal parish or a college chaplaincy a woman could wear an outfit that is well matched with for example, a jacket and either a skirt or pants and clergy shirt but if dressing in this manner, it should look neat. Men might wear a clergy shirt and sports jacket for an interview at such a place.
A New England Baptist Pastor offers this:
"Personally, and as a Baptist, I don't care what people wear to an interview as long as they are clean and not dressed in ragged, baggy clothes. However, don't tell them that!! For men, a suit or sport coat and tie (no jeans)is appropriate and for women, a pants suit or a business suit. Don't wear sneakers or jeans to an interview.
This UCC church made it into a staff discussion. They cover the full realm--from what one should wear to work on a day to day basis to what one wears to an interview. Enjoy! (This advice is from a multi-staff church)
"Well, we had some fun discussing this at staff meeting and this is the word
from the UCC in the suburbs of Chicago. We pretend to be more casual and
laid back than we really are.
The responder is from the Southern Mid-west
"I appreciate this question a great deal and as background for my answer,
let me give you a little history.
When I left YDS in 1997 and began serving as pastor in a Christian
Church (Disciples of Christ) I wore a robe and stole for every service
and coat and tie every day through the week. When I left my first
pastorate and began my second, the church was a little less formal and
so I stopped wearing the robe. Because of the increasingly casual dress
of my congregants, I have recently stopped wearing a tie on Sundays and
as I write this from my office, I am in jeans and a long sleeved casual
shirt.
