Online Adjunct Faculty Jobs Cold Calling

February 17, 2010

It can be overwhelming for most college teachers to start looking for adjunct teaching jobs at schools that offer distance education courses. There are an estimated five thousand post-secondary schools, and the thinking up until now has been to try and find the ones that actually offer online degree courses right now. This selective process takes a great deal of time and eventually costs adjuncts money because they experience inevitable delays of positive responses to their applications as a result of the bureaucratic hurdles imposed by state-funded institutions. The solution to this problem is to mass apply for adjunct online faculty positions. Granted, the effort at the beginning does require an investment of time and energy, but since the college adjunct’s applications will be made over the Internet using a personal computer, the entire process can be automated to a certain degree.

This automated, rotational cold calling application process in search of faculty online positions entails gathering certain resources. For example, a teaching adjunct should compose a cover letter detailing as briefly as possible specific educational achievements, and a graduate degree is required to teach online for an accredited online degree program, classroom experience in terms of years and student diversity and technological expertise such as the ability to navigate the more popular distance education interfaces such as Blackboard or eCollege. In addition to the cover letter, a resume, as opposed to a traditional curriculum vita, is vital to the successful application process since the state-funded schools will be soon following the for-profit school’s hiring model which views college instructors as part-time employees to be hired as demand ebbs and flows. Additionally, it is a good idea to obtain unofficial copies of graduate transcripts and scan them into widely accepted computer files that can be sent as attachments along with the cover letter and resume. Ultimately, these items can comprise what could be considered a digital academic calling card that can be very effective when cold calling schools.

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