The Babb Method — A Two-Decade System for Getting Professors Hired

In 2003, Dr. Dani Babb started doing something no one else was doing: systematically helping professors find online teaching jobs. It started in a hotel room — staring at the ceiling, wondering why there was no system to help professors find online teaching positions. So she built one. She created the first-ever faculty job lead service, delivering curated opportunities straight to educators' inboxes, a service she still offers today. One lead at a time, she built a reputation for helping online faculty land positions — and became the go-to resource for college and university administrators looking to staff their growing online programs. What started as a simple lead list became something much larger.

At the time, online higher education was new, institutions were hiring fast, and faculty had no roadmap for how to navigate it. Dr. Babb became that roadmap.

Over the next two decades, she refined what is now known as the Babb Method — built through tens of thousands of client placements, hundreds of direct conversations with hiring deans and department chairs, and continuous research into how academic hiring actually works. It is not a theory. It is a track record. And it is what Faculty Job Tools delivers to every client today.

What Makes the Babb Method Different

Most job search advice is generic. The Babb Method is not. It is built from real insider knowledge — what deans actually read, what search committees actually value, and what makes candidates stand out in a pool of hundreds of applicants.

Dr. Babb regularly interviews academic hiring leaders to stay current on what institutions are looking for right now — not what worked five years ago. That intelligence is embedded directly in every CV, cover letter, and coaching session Faculty Job Tools provides.

The Four Pillars

1. POSITIONING — Look like the right candidate before they read your CV

Most professors present themselves like professionals, not like educators. The Babb Method teaches you how to frame your credentials, experience, and teaching philosophy in language that resonates immediately with academic hiring committees — regardless of how much classroom experience you have or your academic goals.

2. DOCUMENTATION — CVs and cover letters that pass screening and impress committees

Academic CVs are not resumes. They follow different conventions, emphasize different credentials, and must survive automated screening before a human ever reads them. Faculty Job Tools produces CVs built specifically for today's academic hiring systems — ATS-optimized, committee-tested, and personally written by Dr. Babb.

3. TARGETING — Apply where you can actually win

Applying to hundreds of positions on job boards where thousands of others are also applying is not a strategy — it is exhausting and ineffective. The Babb Method focuses on targeted opportunities: institutions actively hiring, disciplines with open demand, and postings sourced directly from university career portals where competition is lower.

4. MOMENTUM — Keep the pipeline full and the applications moving

Getting a teaching position is a numbers game — but only when the applications are high quality and going to the right places. The Babb Method uses subscription job leads, done-for-you application completion, and ongoing coaching to keep your search active without consuming your life.

Who This Is For

The Babb Method works for educators at every stage: first-timers who have never applied for an online teaching position, experienced faculty looking to increase their course load, professionals transitioning from industry into the classroom, and established academics who simply want a better system than what they have been doing alone.