This post on tenure requirements at liberal arts colleges at Daily Nous reminded me of several important issues that we didn't touch on in our Job-Market Boot Camp: the importance of knowing a university's tenure requirements before accepting a job, and the importance of getting such terms in writing. Allow me to say a few things…

In my fifth post in this series, I wrote about how to stand out as a researcher in a crowded field of applicants. Generally speaking, when it comes to research jobs and elite liberal-arts colleges, we all know what this involves: coming from a top-ranked program and publishing in top-ranked journals. However, as I explained,…

As someone who was on the job-market for a number of years and who now mentors job-candidates, I know how tempting it can be to want to interpret interview results. You thought you had a good Skype interview…but you didn't get invited for a fly-out. Then, for another school, you thought you had a bad…

I began a series last year, "Notes from both sides of the market", as a kind of follow-up to our Job-Market Boot Camp, but this time discussing job-market issues from the perspective of someone who has now been on both sides of the process (I was on the market as a candidate for seven years, and…