In our most recent "Ask a search-committee member" thread, Postdoc writes: I'd like to know how search committees read teaching statements. I'm familiar with the standard advice on teaching statements from The Professor is In (give concrete examples, don't be saccharine, keep it down to one page), but I am curious what people on the…

In our newest "Ask a search-committee member" thread, Anon writes: Cover letters for me are to some extent the most mysterious part of the application, so much so that I think they shouldn't even be required. I have read here already that you can tell just by reading someone's cover letter that they are or…

In our newest "Ask a search-committee member", grymes writes: Here's something I'm curious about, looking back on the job market with at-least-closer-to-20/20 hindsight. My suspicion is that folks on the market (myself included) often commit the following fallacy: 'I'm competing against hundreds of well-qualified applicants for every job, therefore every minute detail of my application…

In our newest "Ask a search-committee member" thread, Anon writes: Sorry if this has been answered before: should you list previous job talks (from campus visits) in your CV? My sense is that quite a few job-candidates do this, but every time I have seen it discussed, the consensus answer has been: no, absolutely not. Further,…