This was my first time on the market and I consider myself extremely fortunate to have lined up a job for the fall. In my program, going on the market ABD is the norm. My cv featured a few publications, but nothing that was peer reviewed. Because of the funding situation in my program, spending another year in grad school as a TA was my worst-case scenario. With that in mind, I applied broadly but restricted my search to a specific type of job – small liberal arts schools. This is my job market breakdown:
- 45 Applications
- 4 Phone Interviews
- 4 In-Person Interviews
- 2 Job Offers
- 1 Job
I hope that my job turns out to be as good in practice as it is on paper, because I never want to do this again.
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