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Job Letter Mistakes

Richard C. Sha reviews some of the ways good candidates for humanities openings hurt their chances of landing an interview.
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Advising and the Job Letter

Graduate departments need to remember their role in shaping a key part of their students' applications for academic jobs, writes Richard C. Sha.
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Mentoring Teaching Assistants

Samuel Gorovitz describes an approach to teaching graduate students how to grade.
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Fumbled Interview Questions

Claire B. Potter reviews the most common mistakes and how to avoid them.
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The Interview Uniform

Candidates packing for MLA interviews -- especially women -- put themselves at risk by deviating from sartorial expectations, writes Melissa Nicholas.
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The Joy of Teaching in Iraq

Jim Owens taught at community colleges, a state college and a private university before finding the ideal academic post.
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A Difficult Question

Terri E. Givens asks: Should I just be happy to have a job?
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Search Committee Snafus

Colleges can undermine themselves with job candidates when their recruiting procedures are disorganized and sloppy, Stephen Winzenburg writes.