Category: Job Market
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In our September “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: The late Helen De Cruz (R.I.P.) published some good work on this in 2018. As discussed here in 2020, there do seem to be pretty serious prestige effects across the academy: That said, I am sure there are exceptions. Are any search committee…
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Now that it’s late September, some job application deadlines have already passed and apparently some interview invitations have been extended, I’d like to launch this season’s job-market reporting thread. For those of you new to this, each year the Cocoon has two different job-market threads: one for job market discussion/commiseration, and another for reporting job-market…
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In our September “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: I’m very sorry to hear this happened to the OP. Do readers have any helpful insights to share?
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In our recent thread on whether publications in lower-ranked journals hurt job-candidates (especially for jobs at research institutions), a reader asks: It seems wild to me that a hiring committee would hold one outlier publication against a candidate with an otherwise stellar publication record. But, in any case, we’ve discussed leaving things off CVs before…