PRODUCT ASSOCIATE ENGINEER and COSTING SUPERVISOR

Thomson, a world leader in digital video technologies serving the global Media & Entertainment industries, seeks dedicated individuals t...

We're Getting Ready to Know

I was griping a couple of days ago about how my department didn't really prep us for interviews with teaching schools. Let me tell you...

System Administrator

We are multinational Company (MNC), urgently looking for qualified and motivated candidates to fill up the following position: System Admini...

Sales Executive

An established corrugating packaging company invites suitable candidates for the post of: Sales Executive Requirements: Male / Female, Diplo...

Global Commodity Quality Manager

DELL GLOBAL B.V. (SINGAPORE BRANCH), as a US-based Company with a decidedly global infrastructure and team, Dell is a premier provider of pr...

Electronics Design Engineer

i-Sirius Pte Ltd (“i-Sirius”) is a young, dynamic Singapore based telecommunication company that designs, develops and supplies advanced pro...

Vista Hotel Batam

Vista Hotel is currently looking for: 1. FO Supervisor 2. Night Audit 3. FO Receptionist 4. Bellboy 5. Waiter / Waitress 6. Houseman 7. Cler...

Assistant IT Manager

Breadtalk Pte Ltd are a fast growing life style F&B Group listed on the SGX seeking dynamic, energetic and committed individual to join ...

Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting

. . . but it sucks for trying to hammer out a postdoc research proposal when you're under a deadline. God damn.

ASST. MANAGER FOR OPERATION

PT. Panasonic Shikoku Electronics Batam is seeking candidates with general requirement who have excellent work attitude & strong interpe...

Senior Recruitment Consultant (Singapore)

Responsibilities: Source, screen and identify suitable candidates Market placement services Requirements: 3-4 years relevant experience in s...

You Can't Teach Me a Goddamn Thing

So most of my senior profs' don't know a single thing about teaching portfolios. But there's a more general point about how my...

Jenny, I Read Something You Said, About Rock and Roll and Life and Death

Check this out. Just in time for me to spend my weekend freaking out about postdoc applications, I find a blog about . . . postdocs and th...

A Bit of Free Advice (Vice, Vice)

Here's Sisyphus on sitting in a placement meeting, trying to understand what a teaching philosophy is: The teaching philosophy is one o...

Sixteen Tons, What Do You Get?

I'm exhausted. Besides sitting in on a seminar and getting ready to teach tomorrow, I spent today trying to line up my letter writers f...

My Brains All Broken, But I'm Feelin' Alright

I said it last week, the job market is on. My department had its first placement meeting a little while ago, and if that first meeting is a...

And Where Are You When the Sun Goes Down?

Long time readers might remember how I dealt with my complete and total failure on the job market last year. I spent the better part of a c...

Going to Find Out Who's Naughty or Nice

I'm interested in this bit of speculation from Brandon over at Siris: I suspect how nice or nasty the interviews are tends to depend a...

Rain Down Alienation

The Chronicle has a piece up about the skills involved in rejecting people for jobs or funding or whatever. But what caught my eye is the...

Excuse Me, Is You Saying Something? You Can't Tell Me Nothing.

Committee Member #3 was bitching me out earlier today for the lack of posts recently. (That's interesting, given that he didn't men...

You Know a School Cafeteria Believes in Mass Production

In comments, Jon adds his two cents about the massive field of interviews going on at the tables in the corporate hotel ballroom: Also the ...

Even Birds Stop to Drop Their Turds, On the Freakshow, Even Geeks, Even Other Freaks, Hate the Freakshow

Following up on Job Cogburn's post about the job market cycle, here's a great line from John Symons about the Eastern APA : "...

Pathetic.

Know what's awesome ? Drinking alone. Know what's even awesomer ? Drinking alone and updating your C.V. Seriously. I've been...

It's a Shame You Have to Learn the Hard Way

I'm sure everyone's already seen this, but via Leiter, here's Aidan McGlynn's handy roundup of publishing advice for grad...

And the Storm Blows Up in Her Eyes

It's on. The job market's hit me, and I already feel like I'm running just keep up. One thing is postdoc applications. Some of...

Everyone can see we're together, as we walk on by

How common is it -- or was it -- for philosophers to list their spouses and children on their CV's? I've recently been looking at a ...

You Like Potato and I Like Potahto, You Like Tomato and I Like Tomahto

Here's the puzzle of the day. It's fall. Suppose you're moving at the beginning of term and getting ready for the job market....

Hope I Die Before I Get Old

I'd meant to get to this a few days ago, but non-blog life got in the way. (Remember my dissertation? No? Don't feel bad. Neithe...

Attrition

In comments from a few days ago, JC bemoans the PhD graduation rate at his alma mater. I can relate—my dept has a pretty dismal attrition ...

Assistant Director of Supplier Quality

Job Function: Quality Management Industry: Manufacturing -- Motor Vehicle, including body/trailers/parts PACCAR is a global technology lea...

Designer & Drafter - PT. McDermott Indonesia

PT. McDERMOTT INDONESIA, The biggest offshore fabricator in Indonesia and one of the largest offshore construction companies in the world re...

Students Only - SAP Business Consultant

Opportunity within Global SAP ImplementationDo you hold a Bachelor’s degree? If so, A.P. Moller - Maersk offers you a job while you study fo...

Asset and Liability Consultants, APAC - Fermat Pte Ltd

Fermat is an international provider of Enterprise Wide Risk Management Software Credit Risk Basel II, Asset and Liability Management, Limit ...

Senior Recruitment Consultant(Singapore)

Responsibilities: Source, screen and identify suitable candidates Market placement services Requirements: 3-4 years relevant experience in s...

Production Supervisor

We are a Multinational Vacuum Forming & Packaging company invites suitable candidate for the following position: Production Supervisor ...

QC Piping Supervisor

PT. Pan-United Shipyard Indonesia, an International Shipyard Company seeks qualified candidates to fill the position of: QC Piping Superviso...

Territory Manager

At Accenture, we relish the opportunity to solve problems, push back the boundaries and do what hasn't been tried before. We're one ...

Tell Me With Perfection in Your Voice, That You Never Really Had a Choice

Trolling through this Crooked Timber thread about advice for prospective grad students, I found this little turd of crappy advice: Also, i...

A Dollar When I'm Hard Up

Questions from the Chronicle forums. . . . I recently found an ad for a T-T job at a university on the West Coast that in many respects co...

I Drag Up Ancient History

You might remember a post about rejection letters I shamelessly lifted . ("I regret to inform you that I am unable to accept your ref...

I've Been Everything You Want to Be, I'm the Cult of Personality

I've talked before about how your advisor's reputation affects the your prospects on the market. No doubt with those considerations...

So am I still waiting

Since the first of the month's come and gone, that must mean it's time to e-mail the journal that's been sitting on my paper for...

Taking Care of Business Every Way

I'm late getting back to this, because PJMB HQ had no internet for most of yesterday, but on this question of what happened to the proj...

Now Renegades Are the People With Their Own Philosophies

The Sally Haslanger article (pdf!) Leiter's linked to is a cold blast of perspective. I'll leave it up to PGOAT say more about wo...

This One's Optimistic

A couple of months ago I ran across a philosophy department claiming : the Philosophy job market is just now beginning to change from condi...

I Have a Plan, We're Gonna Make it Happen

Last night I started talking about the disconnect between well-meaning non-academics' advice and the realities of the job market. But ...

But I Can't Answer You Anymore

One thing I wasn't ready for last year was how totally confused non-academics can be about the job market. One night I was out with som...

Rocking the Passive Voice XVII

Guess what turned up in my inbox on Friday? A PFO ! I guess the department that sent it wanted to get their rejection e-mails out of the way...

How hard is it to write a letter?

After reading PGS talk about his rejection letters, I’m reminded of how few of them I received. And that’s not because I got job offers inst...

Introducing Akhtaboot

An unconventional name for an unconventional company. Akhtaboot is taking on the online recruitment market with all 8 tentacles. With an edg...