Guest Post: Got Guts?

Is it too early to start reveling in the horror stories? Naw. It is, after all, Hallowe'en. OooooOoooh! Scary. -- PGOAT So, the othe...

Show me the money!

So I've been doing some rough calculations and I'm guessing that a fairly full scale application process is going to run in the ball...

Guest Post: Moving Up

Mr. Philosophyhead is back. Thoughts, ye social climbers? --PGOAT Here's a question I have always wanted to ask to a bunch of employmen...

Guest Post: Now We're Talkin'

Philosotographer has my kind of ideal job ad. PGS relays by email that his ideal job ad would be AOS: being an ex-blogger, AOC: saying ...

Guest Post: What's with all the student conferences?

Anonymous MA Department Chair presents us with a very good question. --PGOAT I’m the chair at a well-regarded MA Program and I have a beef t...

More on the ideal job ad.

It's true. I do run a blog concerned with job market issues. And now it's not just the APA people who want to talk to you, my lov...

The ideal job ad.

The APA is listening, folks! The APA feels our pain. The APA wants to help. It wants to serve us better. Kevin Timpe just left a comment ...

Let's get competent

Bumped up from yesterday's comments: Anonymous 4:25p said: When some places advertise an AOC (or less often, AOS) in "History of Ph...

Guest Post: Cut Off

Here's a depressing scenario from Lost to brighten your Monday morning. --PGOAT I was just recently cut off by my Ph.D. granting institu...

"Don't go crazy"

How can writing cover letters be so hard?  I mean, they're kind of easy: Hi pals! I'm applying for your job.  My diss is pretty and ...

I don't know if she's worth 900 kr

It's probably a little late in the game for a discussion of selective job searches to be helpful to those who are standing at the edge o...

It's time to face the hole

There are some good jobs that call for 'open' AOSs.  I mean, yeah, I could work at MIT or Berkeley.  But seriously... open?  What de...

The room is dark and heavy with what I want to say

This damn anonymity. There's just so much I wish I could get into for the true believers here at PJMB. Things like my advisor laying out...

Guest Post: Cover Letter Hell

Presenting ... The Epistemologizer. -- PGOAT Writing cover letters is giving me panic attacks. I'm trying to get input from a number of...

Sunday Comics

--STBJD ( A larger pic is just a click away )

Guest Post: 2008-2009 Marist Awards

Here's Mister Philosophyhead again, this time with a call to categorize the worst of the ads in the JFP. Someone needs to figure out h...

Nothing is fucked

A couple quick thoughts on reading the JFP for the first time when I'm actually going on the market: 1. Every time I cross out a job I c...

PSA: October JFP

It 's up. Have at 'er. Thanks to several intrepid commenters for being all on-the-ball 'n stuff.

Wherein PGOAT tries her hand at advice columnry.

Dear PGOAT, Please tell me why it is so tough. As a rising senior now applying for Ph.D. programs, a lot of what I hear is depressing or bla...

Guest Post: Deal-Killers

Mister Philosophyhead is back, with his second guest post.  This dude is definitely growing on me. -- PGOAT Now that we have settled all the...

ZOMG we totally need a PhilBot!!!1!!

I just stumbled across  this  brilliant website.  The artist makes a new robot every single day. I love it.  Totally inspired. That's Ne...

Getting Along With Your Co-Workers

Each year, thousands of students graduate from university, yet there are few qualified candidates out there. Remember the days when a univer...