All the Small Things

Let me tell about something that happened to me yesterday. I was trying to claw my way out from under a pile of grading when I got an e-mail...

Management Trainee for Insurance Industry

We are a long established general insurance company in Jakarta with many branches through Indonesia. In the course of our change and growth ...

QA Engineering Assistance – Pepperl+Fuchs

We have job vacancy for the post of: Engineering Assistance QA Requirement: Min. Diploma in Electronic Familiar with equipment tester Able t...

Manufacturing Technician

We are Multinational Manufacturing Company located in Batam, looking for the candidates to fulfil the following vacant position: Manufacturi...

PT. Jasa Teknologi Informasi IBM is IBM subsidiary which handle an IBM computers, ATM and other peripherals in Indonesia. We are seeking fo...

PT. Bintan Resort Cakrawala, developer of Bintan Beach International Resort (BBIR) is seeking highly motivated persons and team players to ...

Warren Golf & Country Club

Warren Golf & Country Club, located at Choa Chu Kang, has an 18-hole championship golf course as well as an extensive range of social an...

HR/Organizational Development Specialist

Our client is a multi-billion diversified, technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide with aerospace products and serv...

Human Resource Generalist

Our client is a diversified technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide with aerospace products and services; control t...

Bintan Beach International Resort

PT. Bintan Resort Cakrawala, developer of Bintan Beach International Resort (BBIR) is seeking highly motivated persons and team players to ...

Nothing Left to Give, Nothing More in You

Lots to post about today, but a grading marathon here at PJMB HQ means that some of it'll have to wait. For now, let me follow up on y...

Calm Like a Bomb, Ignite, Ignite, Ignite

I had a meeting with the Professor this morning. He told me I need to have at least one new writing sample for the job market next year....

Account Clerk

We a Japan Multinational Company manufacturing Voice Coil Motors (Computer HD parts) based on Batam Island are looking for the following pos...

QA EXECUTIVE

Our company is looking for a qualified person to fill vacant post of : QA EXECUTIVE Experienced in QA Management at least 2 years Female / M...

SANWA ENGINEERING BATAM

A well establish Foreign Investment Company in Plastic Injection Molding needs urgently enthusiastic and energetic personals to fill in the ...

JOB in Philadelphia, USA

Quality Assurance Manager - USDA Canned Foods Job Function : Quality Management Industry: Mfg. -- All Other Manufacturing Description : A ...

JOB in Long Island / Philadelphia, USA

PROCESS IMPROVEMENT MANAGER - Food Manufacturing Job Function : Manufacturing Engineer/Technical Industry : Mfg. -- All Other Manufacturing...

I Can Tell Because it's Plain to See

I've mentioned before how senior profs in my department used to tell us grad students not to bother trying to get anything published. Y...

JOB in USA

Quality Manager Six Sigma Blackbelt - Medical Background Job Function : Quality Management Industry : Mfg. -- Rubber/Plastics Description :...

PRODUCTION CONTROL SUPERVISOR (PC)

We are an affiliated company of Japanese major supplier of warning signals devices, now looking for the right candidates to join us as: PROD...

Cameron (a USA Company in Batam)

PT. Karti Yasa Sarana that representing Cameron (USA Company), the leading worldwide oil well head manufacturer is looking for skilled and...

Job Vacancies From PT. Brilliant Precision

We are a Multinational Company located in Batam invites suitably qualified individuals to joint our team as: Store Manager Requirements: Deg...

It's So Hard to See the Truth With the Sun in Your Eyes

Do philosophy departments encourage an overly-optimistic view of the job market? Yes, they absolutely do. Think about the way departments ...

Technorati Profile

Sales Consultant (5 Positions)

RCI Asia Pacific Pte Ltd RCI Global Vacation Network is part of Wyndham Worldwide, a US based company listed on the NYSE, and is the world’s...

Just Tell Me the Truth Now

Let me pick up a thread of the discussion we were having last week. I was talking about the lack of clarity in thinking about the job marke...

Rocking the Passive Voive XII

I've got an impressive feast of shitty Chinese food in front of me right now, but it's still too hot to eat. So while it cools, let ...

ESCO - Product Manager

Esco … Building Bridges to the World Founded in 1978, Esco is a rapidly-growing leader in controlled environment laboratory equipment soluti...

For Everything the North Gives it Exacts a Price in Return

One strand of the discussion we've been having over the past few days has been the things the job market makes you give up . We've ...

Preaching 'Bout the Better Life I Learned in School

Yesterday was an office-hours-marathon-plus-travel day, so I'm late jumping back into this discussion. Yesterday PGOAT was talking abou...

On Delusions.

Happy First Day of Summer, folks. We all know what that means… Heh. Seriously, though. This business about who’s responsible for the fa...

Ain't Coming to You, Not in this Life

I've been talking about how hard it is for grad students to see clearly what their job prospects are. When you're applying to gra...

I Hope Tomorrow is Like Today

In comments , PJMB friend NS has an interesting (and Humean!) suggestion about why people entering grad school have such a foggy view of t...

It's the Good Advice that You Just Didn't Take

I know, my advice seems pessimistic. Some undergrad's all psyched about grad school, and I piss all over their enthusiasm Well, someon...

Words of Advice

I've talked before about PhD programs in philosophy where grads have close to no chance of ever getting a tenure track job. As Leiter p...

Rocking the Passive Voice XI*

The asterisk in the title means I'm doing rigorous analytic philosophy . Because when you make simple ideas needlessly obsure by stickin...

Rocking the Passive Voice XI

It's a Saturday night grading marathon here at PJMB World Headquarters. Why? Because that's just how we roll around here. But let...

I Think We Better Wait 'Till Tomorrow

Going back to that meeting I had with the Professor a couple of days ago, he was asking me what publications I'd have on my CV by the t...

I guess I could just rap their knuckles with a ruler or something.

[Photo redacted to protect pseudonymity.] All my end-of-semester paperwork has gotten me thinking about the evaluations we get from our st...

I Can Cut the Lawn, Cut My Hair, Cut Out My Cholesterol

I had a good meeting with the Professor yesterday. (Okay, it was good in a certain sense.) We were talking job market strategy for next y...

And Maybe I'll See You, At a Movie Sneak Preview

I knew this had to happen eventually, but I didn't think it would be so soon. I just got my department's colloquium schedule for ne...

Rocking the Passive Voice X

I can still get a little overwhelmed at just how many of these things I have: I regret to inform you that the position in philosophy was off...

Well it Didn't Work Out That Way

Via Yglesias , get a load of this , from BarbinMD at DKos: By the way, did I mention that [Eli] Lake majored in philosophy in college? Curr...

Rocking the Passive Voice IX

Guess what turned up in my mail today? A PFO! I thought I'd got the last of them, what with the decision to toss my application having b...

More Than Words is All You Have to Do to Make it Real

Alright, PJMB friend Z calls me out in an e-mail: "So lay some of those mad abstracts on me!" And yeah, looking at the two sent...

There Are Many Things That I Would Like to Say to You

PGOAT and I were going back and forth this morning about how to write an abstract of your dissertation. Some tool from her program was whini...

No Time for the Killing Floor

There's this conference I want to go to in the early fall--not to present, mind you, just to see the talks and do some shmoozing. Actua...