Rocking the Passive Voice V

I’m never going to get through these if I don’t pick up the pace. Thanks you for your interest in the rank open position in our departmen...

Time to Get on the Internet, Take Stock of What I've Done IV

Okay, time for me to give a few departments their propers for putting together some good on-line application sites. There were a couple of...

Time to Get on the Internet, Take Stock of What I've Done III

Let me go back to the on-line applications for a moment. In my first two posts on this, I was lamenting the shitty, off the shelf human ...

What the photo fails to capture is the abject fear and desperation in the air.

The Eastern APA —the December conference where most of the hot job market action goes down—is legendarily stressful for job market candidate...

Worn me down like a road, I did everything you told

Note to journal editors: If you want me to prepare a manuscript for blind review, you should tell me that. Also, you should absolutely not s...

Time to Get on the Internet, Take Stock of What I've Done II

Yesterday, I talked a little about on-line job applications, and about the shitty, off the shelf human resources web-site than most schools...

Time to Get on the Internet, Take Stock of What I've Done I

I've complained at various points about the amount of work that goes into each application. One of the most surprisingly labor-intensive...