Hiring Resources

The tools and advice you need to optimize your recruitment strategy and attract the most qualified candidates.

Recruitment Essentials

Post a Job Ad Online: promote your open position on The Chronicle‘s job board by completing an easy 6-step process.
Place a Job Ad in Print: publish your open position in an upcoming print issue of The Chronicle.
Attend a Workshop: explore The Chronicle‘s professional development offerings to help you and your staff with career growth.
Read the Employer FAQ: find the answers you need to ensure a smooth and successful job posting process.
Explore our Media Kit: learn more about The Chronicle, our audience, and why you need your job openings posted among our content.
Visit the Job Board: view your live job ads and take a minute to search open positions for yourself!

Digital Job Advertising User Guide

Featured Article

Advice

Admin 101: How to Write a Realistic Faculty Job Description

By David D. Perlmutter January 5, 2021

So you have won the go-ahead to hire. You can still fail to recruit someone if the job ad is vague or overambitious.

News and Advice

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Dual Careers

Which Top Research Universities Are Most Receptive to Partner Hires?

By Megan Zahneis

A research team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ranks every R1 institution in a newly published scorecard.

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The Review | Essay

Your Pay Is Terrible? You’re Not Alone.

By Kevin R. McClure

Higher education has a compensation problem.

The Talent Crisis in Higher Education

ON DEMAND: Qualified job candidates today want more flexibility and higher pay than higher education offers. How can colleges remain competitive? With Support From LinkedIn. Watch on demand.

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The Workplace

Hiring for Success

Competing in a candidates’ market.

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Advice

How to Close the Staffing Gap

By Aaron Basko

What can less-selective, budget-strapped institutions do to hire and retain good staff people? Here’s a two-step strategy.

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Advice

How to Retain Your Best Staff Members

By Meredith Davis

Four tips from a former student-affairs administrator on how to improve work culture on campus.

Salary & Demographics Data

How Much Has Faculty Pay Changed Over Time?

See the latest federal data on compensation for all ranks of the profession at thousands of American colleges.

We Looked at How Campus Staff Salaries Have Changed Over Time. Where Does Your College Land?

Our analysis offers a sector-by-sector look at changes in average annual pay for workers in noninstructional jobs from 2012-13 to 2022-23.

How Much Do Noninstructional Employees Earn?

Here’s how wages have changed over the past five years for those who work in sectors such as business and financial operations, management, and education services.

How Diverse Is Your College’s Faculty?

Explore this searchable, sortable table showing the race, ethnicity, and gender of full-time faculty members at 3,300 colleges and universities since 2018.

What Are the Demographics of Noninstructional Staffs at Colleges?

Statistics on the gender, race, and ethnicity of such staff members, including office and administrative support, business and financial operations, maintenance, and more, in 2018 and 2022.

How Diverse Are College Staffs? Take a Look at the Data.

We’ve just updated our statistical snapshots of minority employees in higher education, reflecting figures from 2018 to 2022.

Client Testimonials

...We place both online and print recruitment ads. Although online is the most common media for such opportunities there is a large audience that still have printed Chronicle subscriptions that line the waiting rooms of countless higher education institutions. We believe in the value of showcasing our print opportunities because we know they will be seen, and we want to be included in those page(s) for greater visibility. In our application we ask our applicants to let us know how they heard of our recruitment opportunities and The Chronicle accounts for a great percentage of the responses which is among the top 5 of responses for this question. Given that information, we consider the posting of our recruitment opportunities in The Chronicle valuable.

A. Casiano-Zoko, Director of Academic Administration, DePaul University

We know that the Chronicle jobs website and printed ads are trusted sources for those searching for career opportunities in higher education. Therefore, it is a go-to source for reliable advertising and recruitment...The Chronicle provides us with multiple ways to amplify our advertisements. In addition to the print ad, the Chronicle provides a longer online run than most. And during that time, our jobs are amplified in several ways (as a sponsored job and top job) and included in additional Chronicle outreach, such as Academe Today and Your Career...

A. Turk, Director of Communications, Georgia State University