In the comments section of our "Ask a search-committee member" thread, I posed the following query: … I recently heard a job-marketeer [ask] on social media…whether candidates with significant citation counts (viz. Google Scholar) or download numbers (at Philpapers, SSRN, etc.) should put these things on their CV. I recall the person suggesting it might…

In our newest "Ask a search committee member" thread, 'early career anon' writes: If an applicant has chosen to work in a number of different areas of interest and is less specialized in one particular AOS than other candidates, how should they go about presenting that in the best light to search committees? Although it's…

In our new "ask a search committee member" thread, Tom writes: What do *you* read first in a file? What don’t you read at all? Do you even *have* a systematic way of going through files, or is it haphazard/varying/based on how much you’ve been drinking? (My expectation is that the answers to these questions…

Last June, I ran a new series, 'Ask a Search Committee Member'. The basic idea is similar to our "how can we help you?" threads, except that the explicit focus is on posing any burning job-market questions you have to search committee members. Last year, we received a number of really good queries. So, given…