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Category: Job-Market Boot Camp
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In our newest "how can we help you?" thread, a reader asks: I would appreciate advice on how to choose what to present for job talks. How do people go about it? Do they give different talks for different jobs? Do people ever present their writing sample, or other published work? Overall, should one prioritise…
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By Perry Zurn, Blake Hereth, Christina Friedlander,Tamsin Kimoto, Amy Marvin, and Andrea Pitts The following is a collection of advice from members of the American Philosophical Association’s Committee on LGBTQ People in the Profession, the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy’s LGBTQ Advocacy Committee, and the Trans Philosophy Project. Questions were culled from email and…
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Given that job ads for the main academic job season tend to begin posting to PhilJobs in August (and a few jobs have already started to go up), I thought I'd spend this week posting some quick links to some of the Cocoon's various series on job-market tips. Here's a list of links to the…
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In our newest "how can we help you?" thread, a reader writes: One thing I didn't really see on the wonderful [job-market tips] compendium compiled above is something about giving teaching demos. Has there been a discussion of this on this site? I'm really glad this reader asked, as I hadn't realized we skipped the…