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Category: Job Market
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In our newest "how can we help you?" thread, a reader asks: Can current & past search committee members weigh-in to explain why, on occasion, a department only advertises a job on HigherEd Jobs and Chronicle and leaves it off PhilJobs? (Assuming there's reasonable guesses) There's a job that is currently only posted on Chronicle,…
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In our newest "how can we help you?" thread, a reader asks: this probably comes up every year, so I ask again (I couldn't find a specific post through search). I am lucky to have found a great TT job, starting Fall. However, a new TT job opened up in what is geographically a much,…
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In our newest "how can we help you?" thread, a reader asks: The APA now has "Papers in Progress Workshops" that are intended for workshopping papers in development solely with a group of fellow participants. These are not full-fledged refereed presentations but they are still refereed, (and might even be more competitive than presentations at…
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In our newest "how can we help you?" thread, a reader asks: Say one department is hiring for two positions. A candidate has AoS's appropriate for both postings and applies to both. Should the candidate worry about one application undercutting the other? Should they avoid making themselves seem too different? My instinct is to say…