Philosophy Job Applications: Getting Through Phase One

The following is a summery of the main point made in a post on The Combat Philosopher regarding getting a job in philosophy. This post focuses on getting through the first round of the application. That is to say, getting to the interview at the APA. These are some suggestions from someone who has worked on hiring commitees. I suggest reading the whole post Here.

Summery of The Combat Philosopher's post copied and pasted:


Having served on numerous hiring committees, both in philosophy and in another discipline, I have a few words of advice for people who are going on the market.


1.  It is a profound mistake, though a common one, to think that the academic hiring process is a rational one.

Graduate Teaching: Good or Bad for Hiring?

Leiter's readers respond to the question 'Can teaching too many courses while in graduate school hurt you in the hiring process later on?'
http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2011/04/how-much-teaching-experience-should-a-job-seeker-have.html

CV: Number of Graduate Conferences?

This is a question I found on a forum. It deals with the number of graduate conferences one should have on a CV. A summarized version of all comments included.

UC Bearkeley: How to Write a CV. Part 2

Includes elements of a good CV and how to put the information together.  Seeing how professionals put together a CV give a good outline of what one might strive for in graduate school.

See:  UC Bearkeley: How to Write a CV. Part 1

UC Bearkeley: How to Write a CV. Part 1

This is a CV writing guide from UC Berkeley, created for graduate students and post-docs but still quite useful for undergraduates.  This is Part 1.
See:  UC Bearkeley: How to Write a CV. Part 2