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Finding a job in academia (or not)
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Job Search
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By functionology
from the UCSD math department
Posted Fri Jun 05, 2009 at 11:13:15 AM PDT
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Entering this past school year, my singular intent was to find a job in academia. I gathered together the myriad pieces of job apps in advance, picked the brains of my adviser, my friends, past grad students, etc. for all manner of advice; googled articles and got organized early. From August through April, I found myself shifting decidedly from one aspect of the job search to another.
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In the end, all I got were a handful of runner-up finishes from some teaching-oriented schools and a steady stream of impersonal and insultingly late rejection letters. (I still haven't received a rejection letter from one school I on-campus-interviewed for in February.) The one job offer I received was in finance, at a company recommended to me by a friend.
Although I received no job offers, I learned a lot about the whole job search process this past year. Our department recently held its annual "Finding Jobs" panel, where I and other finishing grad students shared stories from our respective job searches.
In preparation for this, I wrote a lengthy summary and threw together a website detailing my thoughts from the entire ordeal. It is located here along with sample CVs, cover letters, and links to other articles I found helpful in my job search.
The job market was especially unkind to me and my fellow graduates this year, and I don't see any reason to believe that 2009/2010 will be any better. If you're finishing soon, you owe it to yourself to get organized and on the ball sooner rather than later. Good luck! |
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