On the Market: Strategies for a Successful Academic Job Search

Barnes (sociology and African American studies, Purdue U.) provides solid advice about the business of applying for academic jobs, covering the realities of the current market. She describes maximizing the skills you acquired in grad school, being more than merely clever about reading job advertisements, working the application process, preparing a teaching portfolio and a really good cover letter, acing the interviews, being realistic about other employment options and where you fit, jobs in the near-academe, working with your status as an untraditional candidate, and getting back into the market after you've given up the first time. Or the second. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)