Category: Philosophy Job Market
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The Job Market: Shifts in the Schedule?
With the increased use of video calls in place of first-round conference interviews, as well as the inauguration of the January scheduling of the Eastern Division meeting…
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APA’s Best Practices for Interviewing
Interview season is creeping up on us. Interviewers and interviewees may wish to check out the new edition of the American Philosophical Association’s Best…
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Late Letters of Recommendation
A philosopher currently on the job market writes in with a query: The philosophers who are writing my letters of recommendation are incredibly overworked.…
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Philosophy Jobs Wiki Is Up
The Phylo Job Wiki is up and running. From the site: A job wiki is a space for philosophy job seekers to post unofficial…
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Name-Blind Hiring
The BBC reports that Leading companies and universities are being asked to remove names from application forms in an effort to stop “unconscious bias”…
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Applying for Jobs at a SLAC?
A revised version of the Guide for Applying to Jobs at Selective Liberal Arts Colleges has been published at Inside Higher Ed. Check it out. The original…
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Cognitive Biases and Limitations of Search Committees
A philosopher whose last name starts with a letter towards the end of the alphabet writes in: I wonder how often members of search…
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This One’s Not For The Ladies
You may recall that last week was the launch of the Job Candidate Mentoring Program for Women in Philosophy. As you also may recall, this announcement…
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Reaching Under-Represented Job Candidates
Job search committees are asking the American Philosophical Association (APA) for help in reaching potential job candidates who are members of under-represented groups in philosophy,…
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Philosophy Job Market Mentoring for Women
A program informally piloted last year is officially launching now as the Job Candidate Mentoring Program for Women in Philosophy. According to the program’s website,…
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Administrator-Faculty Spousal Hiring
A reader who prefers to remain anonymous writes in with question: My spouse is a finance professional interviewing to work for a university endowment. …
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Philosophy Job Placement Data Update
Carolyn Dicey Jennings (UC Merced) posts that the final report for the Academic Placement Data and Analysis project is complete. She’ll eventually be posting more…
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The Job Market in the Post-APA Eastern Era
Over the past several years we have seen an increased use of video calls (e.g., Skype) as a replacement for in-person first-round interviews at the Eastern…
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A Prospective Grad Student Says “No Thanks”
I am not sure what I expected when I applied to PhD programs. But when April rolled around, I began to ask myself what…
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A Guide for Applying to Jobs at SLACs
You received your PhD from a major research university. Your advisors work at a major research university. Your placement director works at a major…
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Research On Excess Philosophy PhDs
Are there too many philosophy PhDs? Do those seeking PhDs in philosophy have an accurate understanding of their chances of securing a permanent academic…
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Paying Their Own Way For Job Interviews
A junior job candidate reports that twice this season she has been invited for on-campus interviews but told that the inviting departments would not…
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Solutions to the Jobs Problem Revisited
Last year, Daily Nous reported that Eleanor Dickey, professor of classics at University of Reading, had been collecting various possible responses to problems associated with the…
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Campus Visit Horror Stories
It’s that time of the year when the interview season for tenure-track jobs is drawing to a close, most of the campus visits are…
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Hanti Lin’s “Doing a PhD and Getting a Job in Philosophy”
Check out “Hanti’s Notes on Doing a PhD and Getting a Job in Philosophy” by Hanti Lin, assistant professor of philosophy at UC Davis. It…