What to Do about Your Website? Online Options for Philosophy Job-Seekers
Along with application materials, individual websites are an opportunity for philosophers to communicate research as well as a chance to convey suitability as a...
How do you bring candidates “to campus” during the COVID-19 pandemic? Part 2
The APA Best Practices for Interviewing and the APA Good Practices Guide, Chapter 5 on Interviewing and Hiring serve as invaluable resources for candidates...
How do you bring candidates “to campus” during the COVID-19 pandemic? Part 1
The pandemic has put a halt to a lot of hiring in the academy. Of course, higher education is not the only sector facing...
Consider the Presidential Management Fellowship
In the fall of 2016, I was facing very insecure job prospects. I was on the final year of a post-doc position at Fordham...
How Can I Be a Philosopher in a Non-academic Career? (Part 3)
Answers from Ryan Stelzer, MA, Management Consultant and Executive Coach
Ryan Stelzer (photo right) earned a master’s degree in philosophy from the University of...
How Can I Be a Philosopher in a Non-Academic Career? (Part 2)
Answers from Matthew Barrett, PhD, Consultant in the Life-Sciences Industry
Matthew Barrett (photo right) earned a doctorate in philosophy from Stanford University, and is...
How Can I Be a Philosopher in a Non-Academic Career?
Answers from Gina Helfrich, PhD, Program Officer for Global Technology in International Development
Gina Helfrich (photo right) earned a doctorate in philosophy from Emory University...
How Can I Be a Philosopher in a Non-academic Career?
New series from the Blog of the APA ...
How Can I Be a Philosopher in a Non-academic Career?
Answers from philosophers in tech, industry, media,...
Why You Should Self-Archive and How to Do It
Photo by DAVID ILIFF. License: CC BY-SA 3.0. New York Public Library research room (via Wikimedia Commons)
I earned my PhD in 2015. While I...
Why We Shouldn’t Shrink Our PhD Programs
Every so often—especially on Twitter—academic philosophers call to reduce the size of philosophy PhD programs. The reasoning is usually altruistic, if also a bit...