Interview Prepping
Here are some helpful comments by Wesleyan’s Clarie Potter, who blogs as Tenured Radical at the Chronicle of Higher Education:
Prepping for the convention interview
Prepping for interview questions
Here are some helpful comments by Wesleyan’s Clarie Potter, who blogs as Tenured Radical at the Chronicle of Higher Education:
Prepping for the convention interview
Prepping for interview questions
You will find an additional link to a listserv posting philosophy jobs in Europe posted under the tab “job lists.” Be sure to sign up for their emails or check regularly beyond the US hiring season, since hiring in Europe tends to have other cycles.
Another site where jobs are being posted: This one is run out of the UK and posts UK and North American jobs: http://philjobs.org/jobs.
Here are some helpful links to sites that give advice on how to write cover letters, how to prepare your teaching statement, and how to arrange your CV. These links will also be added permanently to the section “Advice.”
How to write a cover letter
http://chronicle.com/article/How-to-Write-Appealing-Cove/46284/
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/639/01/
http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/gradschoolcareer/academiccareers/applicationmaterials/coverletters.html
How to write a teaching statement (which makes up the vital first part of the teaching dossier)
http://chronicle.com/article/How-to-Write-a-Statement-of/45133/
How to structure your CV
https://career.berkeley.edu/phds/PhDCV.stm
https://career.berkeley.edu/phds/PhDCVelements.stm
Here are some links to sites that list job ads (tt and post-docs) outside the US. These links will also appear permanently under “Job Lists.”
(1) Philosophy job ads with an emphasis on jobs outside the US
http://groups.google.com/group/fa.philos-l/topics?gvc=2
http://www.jobsinphilosophy.org/
Emphasis on post-docs:
(a) UK: http://www.bris.ac.uk/philosophy/department/staff/post-docs/funding
(b) Australia: http://aap.org.au/jobs/postdocs.html
A lot of philosophy jobs will be posted on http://phylo.info/jobs in addition to or as an alternative to the APA jobs page. Make sure you check regularly!