Interview season is quickly approaching for the five schools that are hiring sociologists this year. If you are fortunate enough to land one of these interviews, you don’t want to blow your opportunity by doing something stupid while eating a meal. I always thought this was the kind of thing that graduate programs told their [...]
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How to eat (on an interview)
Posted in Grad School, Interviewing, Job Market, Sociology Job Market, tagged Academic Interviewing, Academic Job Market, Drinking on an Interview, Grad School, How to Eat, Inside Higher Ed, Interview Meals, Job Market on September 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Small Bureaucracy Inaction
Posted in Grad School, Job Market, Sociology Job Market, Tracking the Transition, tagged SLAC, Academic Job Market, Assistant Professor, Graduate Student, Faculty Meetings on September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I asked for it.
While shadowing a liberal arts professor as a graduate student, I attended a faculty meeting. I don’t mean a departmental faculty meeting, I mean a meeting of the entire faculty. At the time, the fact that these professors had a direct say in the organization of their school had a big impact [...]
Inside a Search Committee
Posted in Job Market, Sociology Job Market, tagged Academic Job Market, Academic Search Committee, City College, Jessie Spano, New York City, Philosophy, Stansbury on September 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
With the beginning of the school year it has been easy to forget that a year ago I was in a much different situation. For everybody who is on the job market (or who is still trying to figure out what happened on last year’s job market), this post gives an interesting look inside [...]
Writing a dissertation that will get you a job
Posted in Dissertation Netherworld, Grad School, SLAC, Sociology Job Market, tagged Chronicle of Higher Education, Job Market Advice, Liberal Arts Jobs, CV, Jenn Lena, Presentation of Self, Dissertation Topics, Clothing, Pigeons on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
With job market season gearing up we get a fresh set of advice columns, such as this one from the Chronicle of Higher Education about how to get a job at a liberal arts school. This advice, while largely similar to what I’ve heard before at various conferences, seems to be aimed at two [...]
The other two-body problem
Posted in Job Market, Sociology Job Market, Tracking the Transition, tagged Academic Jobs, Leading Spouse, Trailing Partner, Trailing Spouse, Two-Body Problem on August 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Just about anybody who was on the job market last year, and especially anybody on the job market this year, can tell you that getting an academic job is hard. If getting one academic job is hard, the prospect of getting two jobs in the same area (referred to as the two-body problem) appears to [...]
Preparing for the job market
Posted in Job Market, Sociology Job Market, tagged Academic Job Market, Inside Higher Ed on July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A recent Inside Higher Ed post gives some helpful advice for those who are planning to go on the job market this year, whether for the first time, yet again, or looking for a new job. Some good advice for first-timers:
Practice not going around telling people that you won’t go just anywhere for a job. [...]
A compilation of job market resources and advice
Posted in Sociology Job Market, tagged AAUP, Academic Job Market, American Sociological Association, Chronicle of Higher Education, Sociologists for Women in Society, Sociology Job Market, Tomorrow's Professor on June 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Across the country, prospective job candidates are beginning to put vague ideas into Microsoft Word that will be shaped into cover letter templates, teaching statements, writing samples, and research statements over the next few months. Since January I have written a lot about the sociology job market and my experiences with it, but I think [...]
Knowledge of community college
Posted in Grad School, R1, SLAC, Sociology Job Market, The Ivory Tower, tagged Academic Job Market, Chronicle of Higher Education, Community College, M.A. vs. Ph.D., R1, SLAC, Sociology Job Market on June 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When entering graduate school a lot of students probably dream of working at high-ranking R1s or liberal arts schools. I’ve already discussed the overlooked middle option, but I think it is also important to consider careers at community colleges. While community college life is not for everybody (neither is R1 life!), I taught a few [...]
Maximizing your potential
Posted in Sociology Job Market, Tracking the Transition, tagged Academic Job Market, Academic Prestige, Female Science Professor, Good Will Hunting, Paul Oyer, Roach Motel College, Role Theory, Seymour Lieberman, Slate on June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After reading the recent Female Science Professor (FSP) post “Why & Me,” which summarizes FSP’s transition from “I blog because I am angry” to “I keep blogging because it is fun,” I decided to read some of the posts that started it all. While browsing I came across a post focused broadly on looking for [...]
More on the ASA’s meet market
Posted in Sociology Job Market, tagged American Sociological Association, Employment Service, Meet Market, Mid-Major, R1, SLAC, Sociology Job Market on June 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In Monday’s post I highlighted a few of my thoughts on the ASA’s employment service. The short version is that I think it is worthwhile and that, like the job market in general, a sort of confident detachment is extremely helpful. Other people’s opinions can be found within last year’s Scatterplot discussion of the topic [...]
