Career Advice

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

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

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

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

Candidates packing for MLA interviews -- especially women -- put themselves at risk by deviating from sartorial expectations, writes Melissa Nicholas.

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

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

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