In case anyone missed it, here's A Guy on Hiring Committees' take on departments that want cover letters to say why the candidate...
No Time Left For You
Okay, so there's an ad in the JFP asking me to "address the department description on our website and the university mission state...
The rich get richer.
Like PGS , I spent the weekend barfing out applications. Unlike PGS, I spent some time before grad school doing admin work in the special c...
The Early Bird Catches the Fuckin' Worm
I had big plans to get all my applications in the mail in one massive batch. I know, there'll be more in the November JFP , but I wante...
A Dollar When I'm Hard Up II
The first wave of applications is out. Good. But just now at the post office, I found out my regular application package--weighed down wit...
The lives of others.
Something occurred to me a few days ago, in a rare glimmer of respite from the self-absorption. (Don't get me wrong. We're all abo...
Hey Man, Whats the Plan, What Was That You Said?
Adam Potthast's started an interesting discussion over at In Socrates' Wake. He's talking about how it could be useful for the...
I Don't Want to Be Late, I'm Waiting at the Gate
Here's a question about how to maybe save a little money. Committee Member #3 says I shouldn't spend the money to send any applicat...
Domo Arigato
I've talked before about how I can't figure out where my time goes dealing with all the tiny, little pieces of the application packa...
And I Learned Quite a Lot, When I Was Young
I got an e-mail today from the department with a stupidly early deadline telling me they got my application, but I still need to send them m...
If You Put Me to the Test, If You Let Me Try
Ask and you shall receive. Lots of useful responses to my post yesterday about why some departments don't allow some of their student...
And I Am So Ordinary
Not too long ago, I learned something I didn't know about how the placement process works in some places. I caught wind of it from one ...
I Jump Through Hoops and Loop De Loop
Following up on yesterday's post about transcripts, people's comments really get to why it's so totally bewildering for us to h...
I Can't Afford You In My Life
My research statements are starting to fall into place, which means I'm getting closer to having the whole application package put toget...
And I'll Gamble Away My Time
I've been hammering trying to get all my application crap ready to go out in a binge of mass-mailing, but work just sort of came to a st...
A Dollar When I'm Hard Up I
Here's another thing I wish someone had told me about before the job market last year. It costs a fuck of a lot of money. For about tw...
Get to the Point of It
Commenting on my bitching about how ads are written in the JFP , Anon. 7:24 points us to the Baruch College ad. It's #2, right there ...
It's Hard to Read You, Like I'm Illiterate
I've spent the last couple of hours going over my spreadsheet of jobs and getting the various addresses in the right format to print the...
I'm a Loser, Baby
Fuck. Fuck, fuck, fuck. I got caught up worrying about early deadlines in the JFP and I blew a postdoc deadline. I'm not looking forw...
Ginger
I'm still reacting to the the JFP here, so I'm wondering, did Baylor's med school ad seem weird to anyone else? 373. BAYLOR ...
I Always Done an Honest Job As Honest As I Could
Everybody's had a day or so to start digesting the JFP , and people are starting to back off a little from positive first reactions like...
You Been Bad to Me Woman, But it's Coming Back Home to You
Okay, I've gone through the JFP once pretty carefully, and I've managed to get a spreadsheet of possible jobs together. Not for no...
Panic On the Streets of London
I saw PGOAT's post this morning when I was trying to get ready for class. I told myself I had time for a quick look over the JFP , but...
And so it begins.
The new JFP has been posted online. Well, actually it hasn't been officially posted yet--there's no official link to it on the APA...
Human Resources Unit Manager
PerkinElmer Inc. is a US$ 1.5 billion high technology international organization operating two businesses – Optoelectronics and Life & A...
Relationship Manager SME (RM SME) - BATAM
Bank Permata sebagai salah satu bank terkemuka di Indonesia yang fokus pada segmen SME dan Customer Banking serta didukung pengalaman panjan...
HR Managers / HR Executives / HR Officer (Singapore)
Responsibilities: Plans, Directs, Coordinates HR Department activities to respective managers and company employees Oversees the overall per...
HR Manager (Batam)
An international & well established marine company specialising in ship repair, ship building, ship conversion, engineering and other ma...
Could We Change the Subject Now?
I meant to get to this over the weekend, but I was busy getting a sack-beating from a postdoc application. Following up on Friday's pos...
But Baby I Don't Intend to Leave Empty Handed, Gimme Some Money
This is the postdoc application I wish I was sending instead of the application packages that chewed up another one of my weekends. Maybe I ...
I've Got to Admit it's Getting Better
In an unwelcome turn, my favorite Mexican lunch place has stopped playing Mexican covers of Creedence and is instead playing crappy easy-lis...
I See You Shiver With Anticipation
I'm living a sort of anachronism these days. Not so long ago, even just when I was a young punk in my department, people going on the m...
And It's Getting Worse
The Chronicle 's got a piece by an English grad student about the need for persistence on the job market. Fair enough, I guess. But s...
Too True to Say, Say, Say
Here's a little wisdom from the senior prof on his year's placement committee, PC Sr.: Very stupid things will be said and done to y...
Rocking the Passive Voice XVIII
It's been too long, hasn't it? Take a look at this PFO : We regret to inform you, however, that you did not make our list of finali...
What can Akhtaboot do for You as a Job Seeker?
There are many job recruiting websites out there; some big, some small, but for the most part all the same. Akhtaboot is different because o...
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