When I started tracking changes in the job market several years ago, the big news was that the market was now changing year by year. Now new wrinkles worry the course of the job search month by month. The new generation of job seekers has to be nimble, well informed, and quick to respond.
Our Graduate Placement Committee has a treasure trove of job-seeking tips, wisdom, and lore we've collected over the years. Much of that is available on our Google Drive site, available to University of Pittsburgh English graduate students only, because it contains a large number of sample personal materials that people from our department and beyond have been kind enough to share, but don't want circulating widely. (To get access, contact Ryan McDermott, chair of the Graduate Placement and Professional Development Committee.)
However, the treasure-trove method can't keep up with the fast pace at which the academic job market is changing these days. This blog will track some of those changes, and also collate some of the up-to-date treasure trove of advice out there in the blogosphere.
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