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September 05, 2008, 02:13 PM ET
How to Apply When You Already Have a Job
Tenured Radical continues her excellent series on the job search with a great deal of sensible advice for job seekers who are already employed in tenure-track positions. She discusses how to approach the cover letter, how to answer the always touchy “why are you interested in leaving your current position?” question, and how the currently employed should handle other aspects of searching.
Many of the challenges facing such job seekers stem from the often intensely personal nature of academic employment. In my experience, many faculty members treat their academic positions as directly connected with their personal identities. In turn, they identify, in sometimes odd ways, with their employing institutions, and from that alchemy emerges the idea that those who are seeking to move elsewhere are personally insulting those institutions.
A great deal of that phenomenon depends on the institution. The smart job seeker will carefully measure the local climate before following even the very sensible strategies Tenured Radical recommends.
Categories: General-interest, Faculty-hiring
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