The Job Search
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The best practices for increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of your faculty are neither mysterious nor terrifically expensive.
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Job candidates with the misfortune to be searching for tenure-track positions this year or next will need as many career options as they can get.
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A look at what the Covid-19 crisis might mean for untenured faculty members on and off the tenure track, and for new and returning doctoral students.
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Should I Mention I’m From the Area?’
12/2/2019
In applying to small liberal-arts colleges, your local ties may be worth bringing up in your application. -
Hint for candidates: Why should we seriously consider you when you haven't seriously considered us?
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Should you think about going back on the faculty job market?
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Sometimes the financial health of your institution can matter more than whether your position allows you to seek tenure.
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All sorts of magical thinking can distort the realities of the tenure-track job hunt.
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Ambivalence About Midcareer Moves
4/17/2019
For many professors, the possibility of changing departments triggers uncertainties that are not always easy or possible to resolve. -
For academic leaders — especially during a job search — transparency and honesty about your career must rule the day.
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Off the Team and Out of a Job
1/28/2018
What do you do when you’re not included in the new president’s plans? -
My experience on the market was just one data point, not a complete description of a highly stochastic process.
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Every Sin Is a Public Sin
7/11/2017
What if you couldn’t get a job because of that thing — that stupid thing from so long ago? -
They warn you about the job market but not necessarily all the other ways in which you might not fit faculty life.
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Two hiring seasons, and 112 applications.
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Admin 101: Prepping for the Job Hunt
1/30/2017
The political risk is weighty and the preparations are burdensome, so make sure you are ready. -
Why You Weren’t Picked
3/30/2016
Nuclear errors, incompetent committees, and other reasons you weren’t offered the job.