Job Market: 2010 vs 2011 (update)

Moved forward from 

Tue, May 24, 2011.

This post has now received many more comments and is quite a bit more usefull. I found the comment on the bottom of this post particularly interesting. 

Our friends over at The Philosophy smoker posted a question about whether more or less jobs were posted this year. 
So far this post has not received many responses but the two so far suggest that the job market is actually getting BETTER!
I would really appreciate anyone who is on the job market commenting on this issue. 
http://philosophysmoker.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-did-this-year-compare-with-last.html

An interesting comment on this post about compiling information on job hiring in order to understand the job market better. I would gladly support any effort regarding this:

" What would be more useful would be to compile information on those who have been hired in recent years. If you're looking for aggregate data, compile a chart based on commonalities among those who were recently hired. This would be, I imagine, very time-consuming, but may be very helpful to show applicants just how important certain conferences, journals, types of teaching experience, graduate institution, etc., are on the market. Such work may also highlight trends that are not immediately noticeable.

What you're asking for here, 12:17, is something that MBA programs do very well: determine what's demanded by the hiring market and tailor their programs accordingly. Much as MBAs piss me off, they are well in advance of the curve compared to other graduate programs in trying to understand the market their graduates are competing in. Humanities PhD programs (especially, I would argue, in Philosophy) do a terrible job in understanding the market their graduates are entering into, and as a result woefully under-prepare them. "

Hopefully this blog will help prepare you so you wont find your self lost after you graduate!

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