[Poscgrad] job market

[Indridi Indridason]

Hi all,

this is just a reminder to those of you on the job market to let Diogo 
and me know that you are indeed on the job market.  If you are - and if 
you haven't already - send me the info below so we can circulate it to 
our faculty and post it on the department website.

We are also planning on providing you with some feedback on your 
application materials - we, of course, assume that you committee chair 
will over those for/with you but different people look for different 
things in cover letters, etc. so it never hurts to have multiple people 
look those over.   At any rate, it is already mid-August, so the sooner 
we have an idea how many of you are on the market, we can start to 
assign faculty to take a look at your application materials.

Once the quarter starts, the plan is to arrange for some practice job 
talks.  In past years, students and advisors have set those up by 
inviting a few faculty members - where the tendency has been to invite 
people working in the same subfield.  While that is fine, we would like 
to make them a bit more of public events and to encourage a more 
heterogeneous set of faculty to attend for the simple reason that you 
won't just be speaking to people in your subfield in your job talks - 
the questions most out of left-field usually come from faculty that 
don't work in your subfield.  So there is some benefit to getting some 
practice having to answer those sort of questions - even if it is only 
to get used to the "I don't know what the heck this person is going on 
about" feeling! (In case that stresses you out, for those kinds of 
question, in 9 cases out of 10, the rest of the people in the room are 
also thinking 'what the heck' - in which case just being tactful is 
probably more important than the answer itself.)

Best,

Indridi



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