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Job market success

January 28, 2009 by John

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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    […] Both go a long way toward demystifying a complicated problem (which is not helping the fact that the job market sucks). […]


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    […] 16, 2009 by John Being on the job market this year, I was frequently reminded of Candide by Voltaire.  This occurred whenever friends, family […]


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  5. on March 23, 2009 at 10:24 am Turning down a tenure track job « Memoirs of a SLACer

    […] the title of this post seems ludicrous, but I did it.  The two job offers I note in my summary of job market success did not overlap.  I had to turn down the first before I received the second.  Obviously, I would […]


  6. on March 24, 2010 at 7:39 pm An aspect of R1 life that I miss « Memoirs of a SLACer

    […] far, the job I received at a SLAC as the result of a more specific approach has met my expectations.  Despite this, there are aspects of my grad school days that I […]


  7. on January 28, 2012 at 9:05 pm Three years summarized in ten posts « Memoirs of a SLACer

    […] lot has changed since my first post three years ago. Parts of the transition from ABD with a job offer to third-year assistant […]


  8. on February 16, 2012 at 9:36 pm What I learned by applying for a different job « Memoirs of a SLACer

    […] I said after I received a job that I never wanted to go on the job market again, I applied for one job in the years since beginning in my current position. The job was at a […]


  9. on January 28, 2014 at 9:14 pm Five years of Memoirs of a SLACer | Memoirs of a SLACer

    […] years ago today, I posted about my job market success and Memoirs of a SLACer was born. Given that the average blog lasts about two weeks I am fairly […]


  10. on March 27, 2014 at 9:04 pm On the market again | Memoirs of a SLACer

    […] years after going on the market as an ABD graduate student, I went on the job market again this year. Although I had applied for a […]


  11. on January 28, 2016 at 9:03 pm Seven years of SLACing (and new Barbies!) | Memoirs of a SLACer

    […] would be greatly diminished by working at a small liberal arts college, I started this blog by bragging about my job market success. Over the years, some things have changed (I finished my dissertation, started my first job, then […]



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