Thread by @shengokai

Today I submitted five different applications to five different application portals for jobs that required five different sets of documents and five different letters presenting my skills.

Of the five jobs, none of them required me to submit a diversity statement. Two of them required teaching statements. One of them wanted me to combine my teaching statement and my cover letter. Two of them required a cover letter and a research statement.

All of them required a teaching portfolio, albeit differently. One of them wanted summaries of my evaluations (see my eval tweet for that), three of them wanted FULL evaluations, and one of them wanted full evals and class observations.

All of them wanted sample syllabi.

Now, none of them wanted writing samples (wat), though they did all have cryptic warnings about requesting writing samples after advancing to the second stage.

Here's the fun part: all but one of these jobs had what I called a "shotgun ad." This is an ad where the department dumps everything outside of anglophone philosophy, including feminist philosophy, into the AOS/AOC and then makes applicants fight to the death.

The one job that did not do this narrowly focused its ad to what it apparently really wanted. This was extremely refreshing and I wish more jobs actually were thoughtful about their ads for LCT philosophies.

As per usual for the field, none of these ads mentioned philosophy of disability.

Anyway, the job market sucks, the academy runs on exploitation and abuse, and I will never stop pointing this out even if I somehow manage to get tenure.