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Category: Job Market
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In our November “how can we help you?” thread, a reader writes: I suspect there is probably a lot of variance across different search committees (e.g. at R1s, SLACs, regional state colleges & universities), as well as across different individual search committee members (some might not care about cover letters at all, others might care…
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Thanks to some readers who reached out saying they had trouble finding the Cocoon’s old job-market resource posts from Typepad, I’ve updated all of the links below. Sorry for taking so long. I had intended to do this before the job-market began, but it’s been a tough year. The Cocoon’s Job Market Boot Camp: The Notes…
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In our November “how can we help you?” thread, a reader writes: I love the idea of this. Being a job-candidate is hard and time-consuming enough. All of the time wasted going through each individual university’s job-application system would save applicants an immense amount of time, and I don’t know what the downside would be.…
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A reader writes in by email: It’s hard for me to see how it would be at all reasonable for hiring committees to hold things like these against job candidates. Then again, I never cease to be surprised at the kinds of things that people say they take into account. Do any readers have any…