Tag: jobs

13 Gifs of All Your Job Market Problems

Compulsively checking the job sites for new ads “Various positions” clickbait Editing your cover letter so many times you can recite it, in all its customized iterations Send us: a cover letter, your CV, a writing sample, a teaching statement, a research statement, a diversity statement, a statement about our mission statement, 3 letters of… Read more →

Women’s Health Advocacy at Work

I realized belatedly that writing a biography of a women’s health activist as my dissertation (and wrestling with the late journalist Barbara Seaman’s strong personality) was an exhausting task. I finished graduate school a semester late, burnt out, and in desperate need of a paycheck. So when I saw a job advertisement from a women’s… Read more →

On the Academic Job Market