tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post6463774901921939873..comments2024-03-09T03:20:20.004-05:00Comments on Tenured Radical: These Things I Know: Applying for Tenure-Track JobsTenured Radicalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05703980598547163290noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-26245617554393259592010-12-03T03:52:27.972-05:002010-12-03T03:52:27.972-05:00One arresting alarm produced by the cast was the T...One arresting alarm produced by the cast was the <a href="http://www.heuer-tag.com/tag-heuer-carrera.html" rel="nofollow"><strong>Tag Heuer Carrera</strong></a> Day Date Alarm (Singapore Bound Edition). They accept some analyze appearance cover the blooming blush logo, the blooming borders, the admirable beaming basis on the dial, a 43 mm titanium mad case, a blooming alarm additional hand, and covering band with blooming stitching.longgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17588180289785941023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-84627494402452796312010-07-09T05:29:17.031-05:002010-07-09T05:29:17.031-05:00It's always nice when you can not only be info...It's always nice when you can not only be informed, but also entertained! I'm sure you had fun writing this article. Excellent entry! I'm been looking for topics as interesting as this. Looking forward to your next post.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.resumedocket.com/" rel="nofollow">Resume Writing Services</a>Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03217005700678703168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-68953372103969364162010-03-08T21:49:09.181-05:002010-03-08T21:49:09.181-05:00Wow...so much snickering condescension...all this ...Wow...so much snickering condescension...all this from a Professor (and that too ...of history) at Wesleyan University who got his job in the 1980s. How pathetic do you have to be to end up in a bottom of the box university in the job market of 30 years ago?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-10782196337683408262009-11-15T04:19:09.753-05:002009-11-15T04:19:09.753-05:00new trucks cheap price new car for sale sale chevy...<a rel="dofollow" href="http://new-trucks.us" rel="nofollow">new trucks cheap price</a> <a rel="dofollow" href="http://newcarforsale.info" rel="nofollow">new car for sale</a> <a rel="dofollow" href="http://salechevysilverado.info" rel="nofollow">sale chevy silverado</a> <a rel="dofollow" href="http://aacarinsurance.info" rel="nofollow">aa car insurance</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-24232368510450881012009-09-19T00:51:05.813-05:002009-09-19T00:51:05.813-05:00hi friends,
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It makes me think that if you are in a position, you are trying to get a raise, and if you are not in a position that your advisor has not told when it is acceptable to use letterhead. It is just unethical and wrong to use letterhead of your position or office to apply to a job at another office. I'm sorry you've not realized that yet, but it really is. This is a 'black mark' mistake regarding ethics and that is one category in which you can't afford any black marks. Letterhead is appropriate when applying for positions when on leave and you intend to return, fulbrights, research leave, postdoc training, etc. etc.<BR/><BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.jobs-career-listing.com/" REL="nofollow"> Job Listings</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-59480678977500328002007-10-30T04:35:00.000-05:002007-10-30T04:35:00.000-05:00Good job!Good job!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-78835442094152454402007-10-30T01:20:00.000-05:002007-10-30T01:20:00.000-05:00Wonderful blog.Wonderful blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-45105487600708625082007-10-28T09:50:00.000-05:002007-10-28T09:50:00.000-05:00Wonderful blog.Wonderful blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-51515016206724843452007-10-27T15:08:00.000-05:002007-10-27T15:08:00.000-05:00Wonderful blog.Wonderful blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-36630411990755113532007-10-27T14:20:00.000-05:002007-10-27T14:20:00.000-05:00Thanks to author.Thanks to author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-71427751720304134542007-10-26T14:43:00.000-05:002007-10-26T14:43:00.000-05:00Wonderful blog.Wonderful blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-38267005486547885332007-10-26T14:19:00.000-05:002007-10-26T14:19:00.000-05:00actually, that's brilliant. Thank you. I'm going t...actually, that's brilliant. Thank you. I'm going to pass that on to a couple of people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-86833821740470964242007-10-26T13:07:00.000-05:002007-10-26T13:07:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-55367976809525081172007-10-25T21:36:00.000-05:002007-10-25T21:36:00.000-05:00This letterhead stuff is kind of funny.For YEARS I...This letterhead stuff is kind of funny.<BR/><BR/>For YEARS I have been printing off nice looking letters with colored letterhead that very nicely matches the official letterhead of my institution. I have used this to write letters of support for tenure/promotion at other institutions as well as to apply for jobs elsewhere.<BR/><BR/>No one has ever complained. <BR/><BR/>By the way, I certainly wouldn't feel guilty about using "real" letterhead...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-45101276879719689462007-10-15T19:53:00.000-05:002007-10-15T19:53:00.000-05:00Dear 11:38 (now 11:22):Honest to God, I think univ...Dear 11:38 (now 11:22):<BR/><BR/>Honest to God, I think universities worry about more than letterhead. I know mine does (but I think maybe you know that because you are at mine, aren't you?)<BR/><BR/>And quoting Stanley Fish on outside offers is just peculiar. They didn't refer to him in his heyday as Stanley "Go" Fish for nothing, you know.<BR/><BR/>TRTenured Radicalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05703980598547163290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-79357884700009908132007-10-15T17:06:00.000-05:002007-10-15T17:06:00.000-05:00Fine. Now I have to e-mail,y friend at Dream Job ...Fine. Now I have to e-mail,y friend at Dream Job and ask him about the letterhead. Most of this advice is really good, I think. Now that I've been on both sides of the interview table, I can say that a good cover letter that really showed that the person had done their homework is fantastic. Ditto the not applying if you really don't fit. Apparently more than half of the applications for my position were trashed immediately, because the applicants were Americanists (the department has three of those and one of me, thanks).<BR/><BR/>I tend to talk about teaching, research, and service in my letters. And I admit, I tend to use the "Socratic approach" line, but generally as an introduction to a more detailed description. So far, I've had pretty good responses. But my best responses have been from places where I really thought I'd be a good fit. Perhaps I paid more attention to those letters?<BR/><BR/>Oh -- and seriously, if I can do it, I really will allow copies of transcripts and "must provide official transcripts if interviewed/hired" -- I have probably spent #300 on official transcripts, easy. But from the institutional POV, I do understand. A friend of mine was telling me about a colleague who was hired ABD, and it turns out that s/he really wasn't quite that far along.Another Damned Medievalisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05231085915472400163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-12279093007673387602007-10-15T00:28:00.000-05:002007-10-15T00:28:00.000-05:00Hmmm, I wonder if it's telling that Anonymous 11:3...Hmmm, I wonder if it's telling that Anonymous 11:38 talks about using letterhead of "your office" to get a job at another "office." I don't hear a lot of academics refer to their place of work as the office.<BR/><BR/>I also think this person should get real about the use of offers to raise one's salary. You can complain that it's a crappy way for a profession to operate, in which case you can sit in your position and enjoy the effects of salary compression for years to come. If the offers-to-raise-salary thing is a problem, then institutions actually do have to pony up and adequately reward people who are doing good work. I know of very few institutions that actually do this. It may seem crass for an academic to use another job offer to get a raise, but don't blame the messenger.<BR/><BR/>(Also, the academics I know only use that strategy if they really are willing to go to the new job. After all, if you threaten to leave unless you get a raise, and your dean says vaya con dios, you look really stupid if you don't go anywhere. I don't know people who truly abuse this practice. Of course, I don't know the academic superstars who get courted on a regular basis, either.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-20015166028537831352007-10-14T23:22:00.000-05:002007-10-14T23:22:00.000-05:00A graduate student can use letterhead to do anythi...A graduate student can use letterhead to do anything, that doesn't mean it is his or her right. Similarly your internet connection can be used to surf job sites, and your university likely has a policy in place that either grants you that or grants your some limited freedom. However in terms of using letterhead, cards, etc. to represent your consulting business, or to represent yourself on the job market, I think there are issues. Is it illegal, no, is it ethically questionable, yes. However, there does become a point where your consulting or appropriation of resources does become illegal, and that is when it infringes on theft, or it becomes a tort when you spend effort consulting and you are because of that not performing your duties adequately. Using letterhead to represent your own interests is one thing, but it is created to represent your institution. That you are legitimately representing your institution when you go on the market, that's one hard case to make. It is perhaps easier for a grad student to make that case. I am skeptical, highly skeptical, of the rhetoric of entitlement surrounding the letterhead issue. <BR/><BR/>As for using offers to raise salary, if that is your only way to get a raise, that speaks significantly of your institution and the quality of your work, no? I'm with Stanley Fish on this one. If you do that, don't let the door hit you on the way out. I'd be happy to hire in someone new on the tt, then use the savings to fund someone who is doing great work and wants to stay.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-86352004025431041812007-10-14T08:38:00.000-05:002007-10-14T08:38:00.000-05:00Dear Anonymous 11:38,OK -- you're going to get tho...Dear Anonymous 11:38,<BR/><BR/>OK -- you're going to get thoughts triggered by lots of people, but your condemnation of the use of letterhead is surely the most sweeping. I guess my question iin relation to the ethical issues you raise is, Sez who? Who is giving these black marks, and under what code of ethics? If it is you, and you are in a postion to really judge people, then I think you should say who you are rather than commenting anonymously, because it would give a little heft to your opinion. There are a variety of ethical codes that are written down for our profession, but I have never seen the use of letterhead governed by them, or even mentioned. <BR/>Furthermore, I just think you are wrong about graduate students: if they are using their institutional letterhead, they are in the process of doing something they are supposed to do -- finish the degree and get a job. That is, actually, something the institution is supposed to support. Even if the faculty are supposed to stay around forever (which is an odd assumption underlying your comments -- that applying for a job is a sneaky and surreptitious thing to do), the graduate students really aren't supposed to be there forever, and when they get jobs it is to the credit of the institution.<BR/><BR/>And as for the assumption that people are applying for jobs just because they want a raise -- how exactly are we supposed to hire people without competing fairly in a market where counter-offers do constitute a person's economic worth? And under what conditions is it wrong to ask your institution to pay you what you are worth in the market? A hiring situation is a negotiation, and it is a moment where the candidate is rightly testing out the viability of another institution -- what that school has to offer, and what moving hteir whole life would look like. And if a hiring committee can't figure out on their own who is a serious candidate and who isn't, that is their problem: it's not so hard, if you have your ear to the ground in the profession. And how about the people who really might want another job, for whatever reason, and then not take it because in the end the offer doesn't match what they can get by not moving? I think judging a person's sincerity in such an arbitrary way as their use of letterhead is silly.<BR/><BR/>Whati do think is interesting is how much this conversaiton has revealed about the very bitter feelings many people have about a job market that is, because of the tenure system, entirely unfree.<BR/><BR/>BTW, having just gotten home from a conference, where I handed out my professional paid-for-by-the-university card to a number of people (journal editors, people who might want me to give a talk, university press wallahs) -- is this unethical too? Under what conditions does me making money through my own writing and consulting constitute "university business"? In which case, why does Zenitih provide me with a professional card, if I am not supposed to hand it out on this kind of business? And why do they give us letterhead if they want to disavow us the minute we do something not entirely to their benefit? <BR/><BR/>And to imagine using a few pieces of paper as "misappropriating resources" -- well, all I can say is, get real. How about using the university internet (and electricity) to look up the job on H-Net in the first place?<BR/><BR/>TRTenured Radicalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05703980598547163290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-41784739764645380722007-10-13T23:38:00.000-05:002007-10-13T23:38:00.000-05:00If you send me letterhead from your current positi...If you send me letterhead from your current position, it raises concerns about ethics and representation. It makes me think that if you are in a position, you are trying to get a raise, and if you are not in a position that your advisor has not told when it is acceptable to use letterhead. It is just unethical and wrong to use letterhead of your position or office to apply to a job at another office. I'm sorry you've not realized that yet, but it really is. This is a 'black mark' mistake regarding ethics and that is one category in which you can't afford any black marks. Letterhead is appropriate when applying for positions when on leave and you intend to return, fulbrights, research leave, postdoc training, etc. etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-52233816361087761892007-10-11T07:07:00.000-05:002007-10-11T07:07:00.000-05:00Sorry for the lateness, but I finally finished my ...Sorry for the lateness, but I finally finished my <A HREF="http://citizense.blogspot.com/2007/10/who-wants-to-be-tenure-track-professor.html" REL="nofollow">response</A>, from the perspective of someone at a public regional university.The Constructivisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07242149985581771922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-25910397993518817032007-10-10T11:00:00.000-05:002007-10-10T11:00:00.000-05:00If I were asked for grad transcripts I would laugh...If I were asked for grad transcripts I would laugh and forget about the job. As for letters, in my field letters are not requested until the "medium list" but referees are included on the C.V.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-22037175879179669722007-10-09T23:57:00.000-05:002007-10-09T23:57:00.000-05:00Can I just add something vexing from the vantage p...Can I just add something vexing from the vantage point of someone who has been on the job market in the past (and has been successful each time), and who will likely test the waters again? <BR/><BR/>It borders on morally irresponsible to ask for candidates to send official transcripts. Search committees want to emphasize that letters should be catered and unique and for candidates to pretend that ina crappy job market theirs is the one and only job for which we are applying. Fine. We'll do that. But when you know you'll get a hundred, two hundred, three hundred applicants, it takes remarkable chutzpah to ask people to get official transcripts from all schools. Invite me to campus and expect me to bring official transcripts? I can live with that. But they can be a hassle to get, and they sure as hell aren't cheap, especially for grad students. <BR/><BR/>Again, job seekers are willing to play the game. But how about not screwing us in all of the little ways that our current department does that has caused us to dip our toes in the job market again to begin with?<BR/><BR/>And frankly, if you ask us for something outside of the traditional application packet, you're kind of being douchey too. Letter, vita, letters, and possibly evals and a sample -- we're fine with that. We expect it. A "self assessment of your teaching evaluations"? A "statement of your future research goals" (did you not read my letter?)? My teaching philosophy? Come on. If you cannot get what you want from the letter, vita and letters of rec, I have a hard time thinking you know what the hell you need to be assessing.<BR/><BR/>Finally, I'd even argue that letters of recommendation ought not to come into the process until you are at the campus interview phone list. For those of us a few years out of grad school, we may no longer have any sort of dossier service if we ever did. I've read enough letters of recommendation to come to the conclusion that most of them read the same, and that if anything they can leave a false impression. I do not believe they are urgent early on. <BR/><BR/>That's more than I intended on writing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com