I did my panel on job market negotiation* last week and happily found that much of what I had written in my previous post was reiterated by others. In addition to me, the panel included another junior faculty member, chairs of physical sciences and english departments, and deans from a community college, a state teaching-centered [...]
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Negotiation Revisited
Posted in job market, on the tenure track on September 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Job Market Negotiation
Posted in job market, on the tenure track on August 25, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I’m on a panel next week on negotiations for the academic job market. As usual, it’s isn’t terribly clear to me why I was asked but I agreed because I like to be helpful… Here is what I think I will say, comments from others are much appreciated.
Is the offer fair? Before you think about [...]
Some Thoughts on the Academic Job Market as ASA Approaches…
Posted in conferences, job market, on the tenure track on June 5, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I keep getting asked by assorted people about the academic job market — when to go, how to do it, is my cv ready, etc. It’s not at all clear why people are asking me. I did the test-run year, applied to about 6 places that varied widely in terms of rankings and assumed I’d end [...]
A Day in the Life… Random Thoughts.
Posted in adventures with child, job market, on the tenure track, research, teaching, work/family on March 2, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Like any good quantitative sociologist, I hate SPSS and love STATA (I don’t really know what you SAS folks are up to but you lost me at LIBNAME). That said, why must there be a limit on the number of variables? And, why 2,047? For a girl who does nothing that doesn’t involve longitudinal data [...]
The Job Market Rumor Mill and Getting the Bad News…
Posted in job market on January 16, 2008 | 14 Comments »
I confess to being an obsessive reader of the sociology job market rumor mill last year. I never commented and I never heard anything particularly useful regarding the positions I had applied/interviewed for but this didn’t stop me from checking it day after day after day… Even now that I have a job I like*, [...]
Hmmmm…
Posted in job market on December 29, 2007 | 5 Comments »
At the end of my first semester, the main question on my mind has been “How DID I get this job anyway?” I can’t decide if it’s helpful or harmful for first-year assistants to be involved in the hiring process. On the one hand, it’s been nice to see the job market from the other [...]
