UPDATE: To clarify, this post is soliciting self-reports from people who have been on the market recently (e.g., in the past few years), particularly this last job season. Because job-market conditions may change over time, recent data is probably the most helpful for current and future job candidates.
A reader writes in:
Something that I think would be very beneficial, and a necessary supplement to the job discussion and reporting thread, is an anonymous survey that those on the market fill-out and whose results get posted on the Cocoon … It would indicate the profile and results in terms of interviews and offers of each candidate willing to fill it out. Maybe it need not even be a survey. In fact, maybe it would work better if you simply could post something like the below template in a post, and encourage folks to fill it out. I am suggesting this partly in response to my having a crappy year on the market (got nothing) despite my CV being the strongest it has ever been. Getting any information I can about what the profile of someone who is having success looks like would be really beneficial to me, as well as to others who I see lamenting their crappy year in the reporting and discussion threads.
It would look something like this:
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- Current employment/position (Grad student, TT Asst. Prof, TT Prof, Postdoc, VAP, Adjunct, Lecturer)
- AOS
- Years on the market
- Was your graduate program Leiter ranked? If so, was it top 5, top 10, top 25, top 50?
- Number of journal publications
- Number of other publications (book chapters, book reviews, monographs, public philosophy)
- Number of years of solo teaching experience
- Number of interview requests
- Number of fly-outs
- Number of offers extended
[Also] questions about where one's interviews were coming from (R1, SLAC, State School, Postdoc). That would probably be useful too.
I'm not entirely sure how useful such information would be, as there will presumably be many selection effects based on who chooses to self-report. Still, insofar as some candidates (such as the OP) may need to make important life decisions about whether to stay on the market, and if so for how long, some candidates might find this kind of self-reported data useful for gauging how they stand relative to others on the market, how much luck is involved on the market, and so on.
So, if you were on the market this year, and you'd like to self-report on any or all of the above, please do feel free.
A couple of important notes: (A) while I doubt that many people will be scouring a thread like this trying to figure out "who is who", readers should probably bear in mind that, at least in principle, the more info that they report, the greater the possibility of people figuring out who they are; and (B) I'd like to reserve this thread for reporting, not discussion–so I'll only be approving comments that self-report data like that above.
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