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Post by Anon on Mar 30, 2009 11:29:03 GMT -5
here's a thread for rampant speculation about how bad the job market is going to be next year.
Signs of the times- last week at the Eastern Sociological Society meetings not a single employer signed up for the employment services, and they had to be canceled.
So on a scale of "f**ked" to "completely and totally f**ked" how bad is it going to be for those of us on the job market this fall?
Speculation: BEGIN!
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Post by anon on Apr 6, 2009 7:44:57 GMT -5
i think its going to be terrible. i'm taking a year off and doing something totally unrelated rather than go through this again!
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Post by damastes on Apr 27, 2009 12:38:56 GMT -5
Its hard to imagine the demand for instructors going down, given the increased number of people seeking additional education/training. I would anticipate that, instead of hiring tenure-track faculty, colleges will just increase their movement to part-time and adjunct positions. Who knows whether or not this will be temporary or permanent.
One silver lining is that there will hopefully be *fewer* cancellation of searches relative to last year, if colleges know they won't have money to hire people. I absolutely hate going through the motions of applying and interviewing for jobs that don't get funded.
Answering the original question, my own guess is that the job market will be FUBAR [~TF], with less than 50% of Ph.D.'s getting a tenure track job at any university. However, what subfields do people here think will be in high demand? I'm guessing criminology, methods, and environmental sociology will do relatively well next year.
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Post by 5th year on May 28, 2009 22:39:09 GMT -5
I've also noticed that criminology seems to be a hot hiring area. Why? Why now? Or has it always been hot? Any ideas?
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Post by anon on Jun 12, 2009 6:31:07 GMT -5
Criminology always has lots of jobs, and few big PhD-producing schools train criminologists.
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Post by Yang on Jun 26, 2009 15:25:49 GMT -5
The UC system just announced a 2 year hiring freeze along with an expected 8% cut in pay for current faculty.
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Post by lkv on Jul 7, 2009 13:23:00 GMT -5
hot areas: anything that can convince the university that you will bring in grant money!
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Post by coda on Jul 15, 2009 9:16:14 GMT -5
I know there's always a lot of criminal justice positions, but is it just me or does it seem like there's a lot of race/ethnicity/immigration positions this year? (More so than usual.)
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Post by sup on Jul 15, 2009 12:31:52 GMT -5
I'm with you on the race/ethnicity thing (maybe not so much on immigration, which would suit me fine).
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Post by travelbug on Jul 15, 2009 12:49:36 GMT -5
So, other than the UC system, which universities have announced hiring freezes for next year?
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Post by anon on Jul 15, 2009 23:20:45 GMT -5
Public universities in Arizona are currently under a hiring freeze.
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