Share with us your experiences while you were on the job market last year. How were conference interviews? On-campus interviews? Any advice for those of us on the market this year?
Also this is the place for people to ask questions about the nature of the job market.
If you have served on a search committee it would be great if you can provide some input as well.
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I am an ABD in MEast History with only one dissertation chapter finished.
It is probably 50/50 that I will have PhD in hand when Sept 2007 comes along.
However the job market looks deliciously tempting at the moment and just like last year it looks like it will top 50 jobs.
So my question is: Should I apply for a tenure track job? Why or why not? Have any of you applied last year with just one chapter? How did that go?
-Reasons to apply:
1) You can get lucky and snag a position
2) Having a deadline could force you to work faster on your dissertation
3)Practice makes perfect: you are forced to work on your application portfolio which is quite time consuming…if you are luck and get a conference interview(s) you get to practice and will be less nervous the next year when you are done dissertating
-Reasons NOT to apply:
1) If you do get a job offer it most likely will be in a place you would rather not be (i.e Lubbock, Texas) :-)
2) Putting together a job application is so time consuming that your dissertation work will suffer.
3) spending that precious time finishing the dissertation and maybe sending out an article or two for publication will make a much more attractive candidate the next job cycle.
I hope this helps…
Granted Lubbock is not a very pleasant place to live, :-) but Texas Tech is a research U. and the teaching-load should be low.
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