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Category: Long Job-Market Journeys
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I work in assessment design and content development for ACT, Inc., an educational and workforce assessment company. ACT is primarily known for its college readiness assessment (i.e., the ACT), which is the largest college readiness assessment in the United States. My work primarily concerns the assessment of critical thinking, graduate admissions (i.e., the GMAT test…
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(This is the sixth installment of our series of philosophers who have been on the job market for a long time – submissions – anonymous or named, are still welcome – send your story to helenldecruz @ gmail.com). Since 2012, I have been an associate professor at the University of Groningen (NL). After receiving my…
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(This is the fifth installment of our series of philosophers who have been on the job market for a long time – submissions – anonymous or named, are still welcome). I am currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy (tenure-track) in the Department of Philosophy & Political Science at Quinnipiac University. I received my PhD in 2004 from…
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This fourth post on philosophers who were/are on the job market for a long time has an anonymous contribution. For more background on the aims of this series, and how to tell your story, see here. My first job rejection was on Christmas Eve 2009. I spent the whole night having nightmares about never getting…