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[helpful]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090323.wgraduates23/BNStory/Business/

[swedishberry]

I know that in my discipline hiring was great in the past 5 years, but has been cut to almost nil now.  Of course I'd love an academic position, but my discipline is limited to only large universities in Canada. I could possibly transfer over to the UK, but I think the US would be a hard market for me to break. I am feverishly working on my Plan B.

[llanfair]

I know that in my discipline hiring was great in the past 5 years, but has been cut to almost nil now.  Of course I'd love an academic position, but my discipline is limited to only large universities in Canada. 

My area of study isn't esoteric, but it's fallen out of favour - History Departments these days want experts on Asia and the Middle East, not Europe/UK.

I could possibly transfer over to the UK, but I think the US would be a hard market for me to break.

 

Definite ditto here.  The UK is prohibitively expensive, though, even in Scotland and Wales.  Sigh.

[qrypt]

I know that in my discipline hiring was great in the past 5 years, but has been cut to almost nil now.  Of course I'd love an academic position, but my discipline is limited to only large universities in Canada. 

My area of study isn't esoteric, but it's fallen out of favour - History Departments these days want experts on Asia and the Middle East, not Europe/UK.

I could possibly transfer over to the UK, but I think the US would be a hard market for me to break.

 

Definite ditto here.  The UK is prohibitively expensive, though, even in Scotland and Wales.  Sigh.

Ah, but you can get a mortgage of 4x salary! 

[llanfair]

I know that in my discipline hiring was great in the past 5 years, but has been cut to almost nil now.  Of course I'd love an academic position, but my discipline is limited to only large universities in Canada. 

My area of study isn't esoteric, but it's fallen out of favour - History Departments these days want experts on Asia and the Middle East, not Europe/UK.

I could possibly transfer over to the UK, but I think the US would be a hard market for me to break.

 

Definite ditto here.  The UK is prohibitively expensive, though, even in Scotland and Wales.  Sigh.

Ah, but you can get a mortgage of 4x salary! 

I'll bet you won't be able to for too much longer!

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[hopefulbutuntenured]

"Bleak" doesn't begin to express how bad it is here... Atrocious, catastrophic, disastrous, horrific--these are a bit closer.

38 job apps sent out this year. blah...

[llanfair]

"Bleak" doesn't begin to express how bad it is here... Atrocious, catastrophic, disastrous, horrific--these are a bit closer.

38 job apps sent out this year. blah...

Where did you even find 38 listings in Canada?

[qrypt]

"Bleak" doesn't begin to express how bad it is here... Atrocious, catastrophic, disastrous, horrific--these are a bit closer.

38 job apps sent out this year. blah...

Where did you even find 38 listings in Canada?

I wondered that as well -- aren't there only like 16 universities in Canada?

[llanfair]

"Bleak" doesn't begin to express how bad it is here... Atrocious, catastrophic, disastrous, horrific--these are a bit closer.

38 job apps sent out this year. blah...

Where did you even find 38 listings in Canada?

I wondered that as well -- aren't there only like 16 universities in Canada?

A few more than that ... but still, 38 listings in one field? Wow - can't be the humanities.

[helpful]

Not only are job prospects bleak in Canada, so is the quality of education for students!

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090404.wcourses04/BNStory/GlobeSportsHockey/

[relationalista]

Depends on the field, as always, but it's true that there have been a lot of pulled searches, positions that should be tenure-track that are offered as LTAs/VAPs instead, and that quite a number of places have frozen hiring (including replacement positions). But, there are some areas -- often those that are separately funded (from grant money, for example) -- where hires are going ahead, including at my own hard-hit institution. I'm not sure it's quite as bleak in Canada as elsewhere, but it's also not good.

[llanfair]

All we can do is keep teaching and keep publishing, so that we'll be irresistible when things get better.

[hopefulbutuntenured]

My apologies for the miscommunication. I applied to 38 jobs in Canada AND the US, and most of those positions were in the US. There were only about 4 in my field in Canada. Come to think of it, many of the positions that I applied to weren't quite in my field, but closely related or broad enough to include.

That is, anything broadly in the "Humanities"...

[llanfair]

Pretty sad, innit? But good luck, Hopeful.  Good luck to us all.

[cranefly]

I wondered that as well -- aren't there only like 16 universities in Canada?

Please.

Here's a list:
Alberta Universities - Canada
# Athabasca University
# Augustana University College
# Concordia University College of Alberta
# The King's University College
# University of Alberta
# University of Calgary
# University of Lethbridge


British Columbia Universities - Canada
# British Columbia Open University
# Malaspina University College
# Okanagan University College
# Royal Roads University
# Simon Fraser University
# Trinity Western University
# University College of the Cariboo
# University College of the Fraser Valley
# University of British Columbia
# University of Northern British Columbia
# University of Victoria


Manitoba Universities - Canada
# Brandon University
# University of Manitoba
# University of Winnipeg


New Brunswick Universities - Canada
# Mount Allison University
# St. Thomas University
# Université de Moncton
# University of New Brunswick


Newfoundland Universities - Canada
# Memorial University of Newfoundland


Nova Scotia Universities - Canada
# Acadia University
# Dalhousie University
# Mount Saint Vincent University
# Saint Mary's University
# St. Francis Xavier University
# University of King's College


Ontario Universities - Canada
# Algoma University College
# Brock University
# Carleton University
# Lakehead University
# Laurentian University
# McMaster University
# Nipissing University
# Queen's University
# Redeemer University College
# Ryerson University
# Saint Paul University
# Trent University
# University of Guelph
# University of Ottawa
# University of Sudbury
# University of Toronto (UofT)
# University of Waterloo
# University of Western Ontario
# University of Windsor
# Wilfrid Laurier University
# York University


Prince Edward Island Universities - Canada
# University of Prince Edward Island


Quebec Universities - Canada
# Bishop's University
# Concordia University
# École Polytechnique de Montréal
# HEC Montréal
# McGill University
# Université de Montréal
# Université de Sherbrooke
# Université du Québec
# Université Laval


Saskatchewan Universities - Canada
# First Nations University of Canada
# University of Regina
# University of Saskatchewan